As check-in champion Foursquare prepares to make a run at making money, the startup’s vice president of business development, Tristan Walker, has checked out.
Walker, who holds an MBA from Stanford and was once an intern at Twitter, announced his …
Merchants looking to skip the line and get instant access to Foursquare’s business tools need only grease the wheels with a sawbuck.
The location-based discovery service, which offers merchants free access to analytics and admin tools, is now enabling businesses …
Check-in service Foursquare is helping its BlackBerry fans bridge the cross-platform communication gap, enabling them to exchange tips, lists, venues, and profiles with friends by way of near field communication support in the newest version of its BlackBerry app.
Friday, …
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Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram was the topic on everyone’s lips at Mega Startup Weekend last Saturday and Sunday. The world’s most expensive “Like” has clearly gotten tech entrepreneurs buzzing about who will be next. While there’s no way …
Today, the third annual 4sqDay (April 16, four-squared, get it?), check-in king Foursquare confirmed that it has reached new milestones of 20 million users and a whopping 2 billion check-ins.
Anyone who makes a check-in on the service today will …
Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies.
For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in …
Foursquare’s place check-in is moving into new territory Tuesday. Online food ordering and delivery service Delivery.com is integrating with Foursquare so that customers can virtually check in to a businesses when they place an online order.
Through the integration, the …
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Checkin apps have always disturbed me. Why would I want to tell everyone in the world where I am? Call me a curmudgeon, but I like my privacy.
For those of you with a more laissez-checkin attitude toward location and …
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In the past week, two high-profile mobile apps were effectively shut down and acquired – Hipster by Aol and Oink by Google. Both had big PR buildups, rave reviews from the tech press, and strong usage from the digerati.
What …
Not satisfied with Apple’s updated privacy policies, members of a congressional subcommittee dedicated to consumer protection have gone directly to the makers of social iOS applications and are demanding answers on how these apps access personal data.
G.K. Butterfield and …
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Smartphones have turned us into an army of accidental data collectors, checking in at locations, taking photos, recording audio, even gauging network speeds wherever we go. This rich data can be used for research, but because people are creatures of …
A class-action lawsuit was filed against 18 high-profile mobile application companies this week, resulting out of recent reports that these companies “steal” user address books.
The 13 individuals are bringing Path, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Beluga, Yelp, Burbn, Instagram, Foursquare, Gowalla, …
Coinciding with the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a slew of major companies are finally offering apps for Facebook’s new Timeline.
The new Timeline apps include Foursquare, VEVO, The Onion, Fandango, and others.
The new apps join more than …
In the name of educated exploration, check-in and place-discovery application Foursquare is now providing members with merchants’ hours of operations.
The incremental update, introduced Friday, means that people can turn to Foursquare for a detailed breakdown of a venue’s business …
Apple‘s mobile products are getting a lot of love from China. The government-owned operator hit 15 million iPhone activations today despite the fact that it is unable to sell the phone legally.
China Mobile says its 3G service is incompatible …
Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai will be leaving the company this month, but it’s unclear what his next move will be, according to blog post by Selvadurai.
Selvadurai writes:
After three years, I feel I’ve done all I can do and …
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has struck a privacy agreement with the top six companies she believes facilitate the creation of the most mobile applications: Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, Microsoft, and Research in Motion. The agreement states that all …
Apple has finally weighed in on the widespread practice of apps uploading all the data from your address book to their servers: Apple doesn’t like it. At least, not without you granting explicit permission to the app first.
Companies such …
A hungry sojourner should have an easier time tracking down a good meal if updated iPhone and Android applications from Foursquare deliver on their promise to simplify place discovery.
The New York location-based company, currently in the midst of a …
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While sports fans eagerly await who will win the 2012 Super Bowl and look forward to diving into chips and a Frito Pie or two, marketers are eager to see who the winners (and losers) are on the social media …
