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05 Jun 2012 - WhosHere Arrives on Android

23 May 2012 - First Location-Based Mobile Social Discovery App WhosHere Launches Video Chat

06 Mar 2012 - WhosHere User Sends Six Billionth Free Text Message

27 Feb 2012 - WhosHere Reaches 5 Million Users

20 Feb 2012 - WhosHere Mobile App Success Leads to Parent Company Name Change

19 Dec 2011 - WhosHere Increases International Reach with Latest Update

12 Sep 2011 - WhosHere Sends Four Billionth Free Text Message

03 Aug 2011 - Lightbank Makes New Investment in myRete, Makers of WhosHere

08 Jun 2011 - myRete Adds Polish, Russian and Turkish versions of its iOS app, WhosHere

02 Jun 2011 - myRete Revenue Surpasses $1 Million

25 May 2011 - WhosHere Surpasses Three Million Downloads

23 Mar 2011 - Two Billion Free Text Messages Sent via WhosHere

02 Feb 2011 - WhosHere Adds Support for Five New Languages

02 Dec 2010 - WhosHere for iPhone Surpasses Two Million Users

21 Nov 2010 - WhosHere For iPhone Localizes In Several Languages

09 Aug 2010 - WhosHere Tops 1.5 million users

15 Jul 2010 - WhosHere Users Send One Billion Free Text Messages

23 Jun 2010 - WhosHere Donating Proceeds to Gulf Coast Charity

11 Feb 2010 - WhosHereTM 2.2 released with Virtual Traveling, 25% more results and Facebook and Twitter integration

19 Nov 2009 - WhosHereTM is "Best Social Network iPhone App" Finalist

09 Nov 2009 - WhosHereTM is First iPhone Social Networking App to Have Free ‘Phone’ Calls

02 Jul 2009 - WhosHere In Top Five Percent of iPhone Apps

04 May 2009 - WhosHere - Popular iPhone Social Networking App Introduces "Jerk Filter" in Latest Release

12 Jan 2009 - Popular iPhone Social Networking App Doubles User Base and Announces WhosHere iPhone Ad Contest

24 Nov 2008 - WhosHere exceeds 100,000 Users and Ships WhosHere 0.99

07 Nov 2008 - iPhone App Helping Starlet Get Votes for Reality TV Show - MTV's The Real World

08 Oct 2008 - myRete announces WhosHere Right Now and WhosHere 0.98a Update

23 Sep 2008 - myRete announces WhosHere 0.98 - myRete Adds Free Multimedia File Delivery to WhosHere

02 Sep 2008 - myRete announces WhosHere 0.97a

in the news

The Next Web - Location-based chat app WhosHere finally lands on Android

LA Times - WhosHere adds video and Android to its arsenal

The Android Site - WhosHere launches location-based mobile social discovery app for Android

Android Guys - WhosHere brings location-based social discovery to Android

PalmAddict - Technolofy Round Up

The Guardian - Apps Rush: Bear Grylls, Dark Knight Rises, 45 Sound, WhosHere, McDonald's Passion-Meter and more

intoMobile - Dating and social discovery app WhosHere hits Google Play

In The Capital - WhosHere is Like Caller ID for the Faces of Your Dating Prospects

All Things D - To Combat Creepiness, WhosHere Launches In-App Video Chat

BisNow - Video Verification

AppAdvice - WhosHere Adds Free Video Chat

TechCrunch - WhosHere Launches Anonymous Video Chat

TechCocktail - WhosHere Wants to Remove the Creepiness from Meeting People on an App

WashingtonExec - Q&A With Stephen Smith Of WhosHere: Using Mobile Apps To Connect People In Their Own Backyard

Entreprenuer Bisnow - Do You Have a Non-phone Phone Yet?

Modern DC Business - WhosHere® - The Undating App

TechZone 360 - Lightbank Invests in myRete

Silicon Valley Business Journal - myRete raises funds for location-based social networking app

Mobile Entertainment - Mobile funding roundup: WhosHere...

Tech Cocktail - myRete, Makers of WhosHere, Close on Round of Funding from Lightbank

Entrepreneur Bisnow - WhosHere: BOOTSTRAPPED NO MORE

Washington Business Journal - myRete, FiberZone and Salsa Labs raise cash

VentureBeat - Mobile app WhosHere raises $1.25M for location-based social networking

TechCrunch - Lightbank Invests In Location-Based Mobile Social Network WhosHere

Wall Street Journal - The Next Bet for Groupon's Founders

FedTech Bisnow - myRete COO, Stephen Smith, Persons of Interest

Washington Post - myRete named Hottest Start-up

PR Newswire - NVTC Announces 2011 Hot Ticket Award Finalists and Winners - myRete wins Hottest Start-up

Untether.tv - myRete: How they reached 3 million downloads, 2 billion text messages and $1 million in revenue with their first product, WhosHere - with co-founder Stephen Smith

FedTech Bisnow - myRete for hottest startup

Intomobile - iOS location-based social networking app WhosHere surpasses 3 million downloads

Washington Business Journal - Alexandria startup myRete Inc. comes onto the dating scene with an iPhone app

ComputerWorld - WhosHere 2.2 hit the App Store during Expo

FedTech Bisnow - myRete Best Bootstrap nominee

The Wall Street Journal - Smart Money - The Love Machine: 5 Dating Apps

Mashable - Best Social Network iPhone App - WhosHere finalist

Mashable - 500 Leading Nominees in Mashable's #openwebawards

Social Times - WhosHere is a Cool Mobile Proximity Networking Tool