Location-based Aloqa Goes Beta, Gets New CEO, Snags $1.5M in Funding
Android app maker Aloqa has brought Sanjeev Agrawal on board as CEO and picked up $1.5M in funding. Mr. Agrawal is the former Head of Google Product Marketing and joins Aloqa to help them build their location-based service for the Android Platform. He served as a VP most recently at TellMe, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2007.
Aloqa has entered into beta and provides information about businesses and friends near Android phone users. The places of interest that Aloqa shows the user are based on restaurants, entertainment venues and social connections. The program is proactive, showing places of interest automatically without any user intervention. It can also show any Facebook friends that are in the immediate vicinity as determined by the user’s current location. The program can be downloaded from the Android Market.
