After price hike, Foursquare and StreetEasy switch from Google to OpenStreetMaps

March 1, 2012 1:55 PM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

Foursquare ditched its corporate overlords and showed some love to a little startup this week. After Google raised the price on its Maps API, Foursquare began looking for new options. It liked OpenStreetMaps, a sort of Wikipedia for geography, but …

Foursquare wins major victory with death of Facebook Places

August 23, 2011 3:44 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

While Facebook was rolling out some changes to its privacy policies today, the company also quietly announced it was killing off the Foursquare-like Places function inside of its mobile app.

The Facebook Places feature was unveiled a year ago and …

Facebook and American Express team up for another ‘easy’ deals service

July 19, 2011 5:24 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

American Express on Tuesday announced it had partnered with Facebook to give deals at high-profile outlets and small businesses.

A new Facebook app called “Link, Like, Love” lets customers sign up with their AmEx cards and get a list of …