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| Sep 9, 2013 | The 6 Coolest Foursquare Badges You Don’t Have | According to a social media report produced by Nielsen, Foursquare placed in 3rd place – behind Facebook and Twitter – in app usage, by the end of 2012. Since then, Foursquare's user base has increased from 25 million to 33 million (as of A... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Foursquare’s new check-in ads may be annoying, but they’re also really smart | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This might sound a bit crazy, but Foursquare is d... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Foursquare Tunes Into International Growth, Inks Live Music Check-In Deal With Deezer To Promote Paid Subs | As Foursquare focuses on the question of growing revenue, it has been slowly turning its game-style mobile check-in app into a platform to support location-based advertising and marketing. That strategy got an international fillip today in ... |
| Mar 16, 2013 | Foursquare Aims At A Moving Target As It Tries To Close Another Round Of Funding | This year’s SXSWi did not herald the next Big Thing in tech, as some guessed it wouldn’t, but it wasn’t always this way. In 2010, a year when people were a bit more optimistic about the new new thing, Foursquare was the boss. First appearin... |
| Jan 9, 2013 | Foursquare Now Tells You When You’re About to Level Up an Expertise Badge | Last month, Foursquare made a pretty significant update to both the check-in screen and location pages on their iOS and Android apps. The update brought large, swipable photos front and center, added relevant info like hours, rating, and mo... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | Foursquare Looks At Red/Blue State Check-Ins | Can you determine which states are more supportive of gay marriage from analyzing check-ins at gay bars? How about determining which states are the most religious based on check-ins at places of worship? If you think that check-ins can give... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Foursquare Gets A New Look: Redesign Makes Checking In Stickier And More Social | Foursquare, the app that lets people virtually “check in” to places that they physically visit, has debuted a new top-to-bottom redesign of its mobile applications. The new look does not come as much of a surprise — it has been whispered ab... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: Why Instagram is worth $1 billion, and your startup isn’t | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A lot of people were scratching their heads yeste... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Columbia’s DevFest 2012 Showcases Student Hacks, New York Talent | The culture of hacking continues to bloom in New York, evidenced last weekend by Columbia’s DevFest 2012. DevFest is entirely student run, and had workshops and support from local VC firms and startups. The event culminated with presentatio... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | Mayor of the ‘Mart! Foursquare Improves Brand Pages for Chains | ALL THE STARBUCKSES
Foursquare is big in New York, San Francisco, and Japan. But will it play in Peoria? A new feature suggests the check-in startup is attempting to win the hearts of the Pinterest crowd. Foursquare just rolled out a change... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Tries His Hand at Jewelry Modeling | First came the Dens and Naveen’s Gap billboard, then David Karp’s Uniqlo ad, and now the photogenic founders of New York startups are showing in jewelry campaigns.
A new black-and-white series of portraits from DANNIJO, the social media sav... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Foursquare finally lets you keep home addresses private | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Location-based social network Foursquare has quie... |
| Sep 1, 2011 | Foursquare Isn’t Building Tablet Apps, So Sony Built One With Their API | Zuck doesn't even think tablets are mobile.
Based on Foursquare’s estimations, the iPad will no longer stand alone in the tablet race. Foursquare finally created a tablet app, but has curiously designed it exclusively for Sony’s new Tablet ... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Time Flies When You’re Talking About Foursquare | Remember in the earlier days of Twitter, when it was all about signing on at a pre-determined time and using a hashtag to participate in a conversation such as #journchat or #blogchat in an attempt to approximate chat rooms? Yeah, those thi... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Foursquare Adds to Quantified Self With Badge of Honor, Badge of Shame | Living the start-up life at 20,000 ft
For a good portion of late 2010 and early 2011 Foursquare was focused mostly on keeping up with their user growth and building out their team. Luckily they have now tackled that problem and are able to ... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Foursquare, Meet Groupon Now | Groupon's Andrew Mason and Foursquare's Dennis Crowley at the Digital Life Design Conference. (flickr.com/photos/redpilotmedia)
A day after local mini-start-up Dealburner.com launched to alert users to flash discounts when they check in to ... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Groupon Now In Your Foursquare, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together | Well, this is a potentially huge partnership. After extended negotiations, Groupon deals will finally start to appear in Foursquare. And it’s not just the normal daily Groupons that will appear, but also the newer mobile Groupon Now deals. ... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Despite Expanded AmEx Deal, Foursquare Is Still A Revenue-Free Zone | Foursquare is expanding its relationship with American Express to provide local deals to people who sync their cards to their Foursquare accounts. AmEx did a trial at SXSW, and that went well enough that it is rolling out the deals more bro... |
| May 5, 2011 | Microsoft Now Directing Mobile Users to Bootleg Foursquare App | The tepid response to the new line of Windows 7 smartphones can be blamed, at least in part, on the sad state of app ecosystem.
Microsoft faces a sort of Catch-22: developers are unlikely to devote their resources towards Windows 7 till its... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | From Check-Ins To Recommendations: A Glimpse Into The Future of Foursquare | Today, at the Where 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, man-about-town Robert Scoble spoke with Foursquare Co-founder Dennis Crowley about future plans for the hot location-based service. According to Crowley, the future of Foursquare is going t... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Start-Up News: Tumblr Down as Foursquare Steps It Up, Plus Tonight’s NYTM Should Be Interesting | AdKeeper's 'Keep' button makes sense for coupons and meme-y ads.
This week in New York start-ups:
ADSTRUC WANTS YOU. The company that made it onto Betabeat’s list of 10 Disruptive New York Start-Ups for giving outdoor billboard advertising ... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Windows Phone 7 is Beautiful, But is it Usable? | The first day I used the HTC HD7 running Windows Phone 7, the new mobile operating system from Microsoft, I couldn’t log into Foursquare. A friend on Twitter told me the issue had been going on for almost a week. The Foursquare support Twit... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Marketing | You asked for it Arnold and 84 others (so far). So I'm gonna talk about marketing.
I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal customer that it would be crazy ... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Foursquare Is the New Arbiter of Celebrity | Foursquare, the digital equivalent of carving “I wuz here” on the walls of New York’s healthiest restaurants and most excellent nightlife venues, is cultivating a userbase of mega-narcissists. (Like all social media, let’s be fair.) Now Fou... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo Knows Where You Checked-In Last Year | From the folks that brought you FlickSquare now comes 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, a simple app that emails you with a reminder of where you checked in on Foursquare a year ago. All you need to do is sign into the app on FourSquare and the app will... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Foursquare’s No. 1 Fan | Chris Thompson lives in Cinncinati, where he is mayor of a Chipotle and visited Dunkin’ Donuts at least 116 times in the last year. Mr. Thompson writes the About Foursquare blog, a website devoted to full coverage of Foursquare’s growth, ap... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | First Foursquare Hack Day Announced | Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai announced on Friday that the company will host its first official hack day where programmers will get together to work, marathon style, for a day or a weekend on an application that uses Foursquare da... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks — spurious friend requests. And it’... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks — spurious friend requests. And it’s dealing with violators by putting a cap on them.
Users now have a limit on the total number of friends ... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Flicksquare Sends Your Foursquare Check-In Photos To Flickr | Inspired by a tweet from First Round Capital VC Charlie O’Donnell (“Can someone hack a Foursquare app that cc’s my checkin photos to Flickr?”), developer Benny Wong has created Flicksquare, an app that takes advantage of Foursquare’s recent... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Foursquare Searching for Data Scientist – A Sign of Things to Come? | Foursquare has an open position for a data scientist. Specifically, the company is looking for someone with “experience with prediction or recommender systems, search and ranking algorithms, and classification algorithms.” In September, Fou... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Top 20 Geo Tech Blogs of the Week for December 10th, 2010 [Updated] | As the online and offline worlds converge, geographic location technology is getting hotter everyday. From lightweight consumer apps like Foursquare and Yelp to big enterprise and open source applications, place data is enriching the intern... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Foursquare Cracks Down On Fake Mayors | Yes, I've been to this Footlocker 944 times this week. You just didn't see me.
Foursquare closed a major loophole in its reward system today, making it impossible for users to earn mayorship by checking in over the mobile web.
To earn a may... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Foursquare Mayors Stripped of Power. Now More Like Borough Presidents | Foursquare Lamstream Fail?
Foursquare gives the honorific of mayor to users who have checked into a venue the most. Often these loyal users are rewarded by the venue with discount or prize.
But today Foursquare downsized mayors by removing ... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | From The North Face To Vegas: A Facebook Deals Roundup | It’s been less than one month since Facebook launched its new deals service on top of its still-nascent Places platform. But that hasn’t stopped it from lining up some of the US’s biggest brands in time for the holiday season. A few minutes... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Foursquare Offers New Badge Mocking TSA | As I’ve mentioned in the recent past, I think humor is an effective weapon in highlighting wrong doing. There’s a long tradition of groups and individuals who have reacted to hardships of various degrees by using humor. Everything from Hitl... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | Facebook vs. Foursquare: It’s Game Time | When Facebook Places launched in August, the media wasted little time in calling game, set and match on Foursquare and its location-based social network (LBSN) brethren. With over 500 million users, the theory went, Facebook would become th... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | Is it Too Late for Foursquare Competitors? SCVNGR Hopes Not, Launches New Apps | SCVNGR, one of the up-and-coming startups in the “check-in” application category has been on a roll lately. It has almost 500,000 users, is on track for reaching one million users by year-end, has integrated with Facebook Places, has launch... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Why Foursquare doesn’t owe its success to the iPhone | Location-based check-in service Foursquare saw a massive amount of success, both globally and in the United States, because it focused on multiple mobile platforms rather than a single one like Apple’s iPhone operating system or Google’s An... |
| Sep 23, 2010 | Is Foursquare using user data for a new recommendation engine? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Location startup Foursquare is working on a new c... |
| Sep 23, 2010 | Is Foursquare using user data for a new recommendation engine? | Location startup Foursquare is working on a new concept in its New York office — a recommendation engine.
Founder and chief executive Dennis Crowley described the project today while speaking at Picnic, an annual three-day festival for shar... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Foursquare Launching New Must-Have Button for Websites | Foursquare has quietly added a new feature to its website this afternoon that you won’t want to miss: a new “add to my foursquare” button that can be embedded on any website.
If you own a business or publish a web page about any real-world ... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Foursquare’s record check-ins aren’t because of Facebook | Facebook’s latest feature, Places, mimics the core function of another hot startup, Foursquare: announcing to your friends where you are. The long-expected competition stirred a lot of buzz in Facebook’s Silicon Valley turf and Foursquare’s... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | Foursquare Google Maps Mashup | I'm doing a keynote presentation today at the Geo Loco Conference in San Francisco. In putting together the visuals for my talk, I wanted to show my Foursquare checkins from my recent trip to europe on google maps.
So a little googling arou... |
