Skyhook is a company that provides location positioning, context, and intelligence. They have a first party location network that is alive with billions of real-time data signals. For over 10 years, Skyhook has delivered hundreds of billions of verified requests to power highly contextualized and location specific mobile experiences across the globe.
In 2003 they developed an innovative way to obtain location. They started using Wi-Fi signals, as they are faster, more precise and battery-friendly than GPS and cell-towers alone. Skyhook foresaw the mass adoption and proliferation of mobile technology that would make their idea useful for every device on the planet. They got to work on collecting the locations of billions of Wi-Fi access points worldwide and building the infrastructure and software to deliver the information.
Skyhook’s massive global network powers billions of location requests in all of the places that they happen. Their customers include giants like Apple, Samsung, Sony and Mapquest. Their coverage is monumental and constantly growing. They exist to make location faster, more precise and practical and have teams dedicated to research and development, support and getting our message in the hands of everyone who can use our technology.
They have also recently launched a Context Accelerator, which radically simplifies harnessing the full power of a user’s location data to deliver frictionless, vital mobile experiences or the most relevant content. Context Accelerator is highly respectful of privacy and fits easily into almost any development stack.
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By: Christopher Ewell, AGS on July 29, 2015