Ingrid Lunden
Aug 26, 2011 9:11 AM
When Facebook announced that it would be folding Places check-ins into status updates, some took it as a sign that the company was bowing to Foursquare as the dominant “check-in” service in mobile. But one app developer tells us that based on the activity on his apps, this is far…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 14, 2011 5:25 AM
The crowded world of mobile local offer apps has today sworn in another citizen. O2 Priority Moments, from the Telefonica-owned mobile operator O2 UK, is a location-based mobile advertising service that will offer Groupon-style deals on food, shopping and other services based on a user’s location.
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 9, 2011 6:24 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Symbian; Foursquare gets an update; and a new iPad “social magazine” launches to compete with Flipboard: Zite.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 29, 2010 6:00 PM
Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…
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Tameka Kee
Jan 5, 2010 4:53 PM
Foursquare, the addictive and yet slightly creepy location-based status updater/mobile game, has gone global. When it first launched, users were limited to checking in to stores, restaurants and other locations in select North American cities; Foursquare scaled out to 15 European cities last November, and now, there’s no limit to…
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