Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Factual Releases C#/.NET Driver

Los Angeles-based Factual, the startup headed by Gil Elbaz, which is developing a massive cloud-based database of location and other data used by mobile and web apps, has further expanded its software language support. The firm said Tuesday that it has release a driver for C# and .NET, Microsoft's libraries and object oriented software language. Factual said the driver can be installed into Visual Studio on Windows. The new API allows developers in C# and .NET to access the firm's API and large data set; that data includes the ability to query businesses and other info, based on location and other parameters. Factual's API and database is being used by app developers to find local businesses near a user, correlate that to third party services like Foursquare and Yelp, and more.