Tag: location

Foursquare Finally Moves Beyond the Check-In by Ditching It
Foursquare has been incredibly quiet since late last year. In December, the company to...
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Foursquare Touts 45M Users, $35M in New Funding
It's been a big, transformative year for location-focused app Foursquare. For the past year, Foursquare has been making both incremental and monumental shifts in the core functiona...
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Google’s Field Trip App Launches on iOS
Back in September of 2012, Google released an app called Field Trip for Android. The...
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Matt Cutts Talks Location And ccTLDs
In Google's latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses location and ccTLDs. Specifically, he responds to the following user-submitted question: We have a vanity doma...
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Facebook Building Passive Location-Tracking App for Friend Discovery [REPORT]
If reports are correct, Facebook is currently hard at work building its own standalone location tracking app that will be able to tell your friends when you're nearby and vice vers...
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Foursquare Sees 500M Check-ins in 3 Months, Makes Cool Map to Showcase Them
Foursquare has just put up a new blog post that, among other things, touts the service's ability to create personalized recommendations, b...
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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 scr...
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Apple Looking at Foursquare to Help with Apple Maps [REPORT]
Everyone is looking for a way to incorporate personalized, local results into their location services. The...
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Foursquare Improves iOS App with Better Location Pages
Last week, Foursquare released an update for their Android app that modified l...
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Facebook Turns Nearby Feature into an Actual Location Recommendation Tool
Facebook has just announced a huge revamp of their Nearby feature inside the mobile app that turns it from a not-too-remarkable tracker of friends' check-ins to an actual attempt a...
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Find My Phone for iOS Adds Driving Directions, Makes It Easier to Retrieve Lost Devices or Get Capped in the Process
Apple's Find My Phone app that shows users the location of their misplaced devices has always lent itself to use in vigilante justice. That of course happens when "misplaced" actu...
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Foursquare Gives Locations a New Kind of Rating
If you think that star ratings are oftentimes faulty or unspecific indicators of a location's true worth, the people at Foursquare agree with you. In order to provide what they th...
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Check-in on Facebook, Get Free Wi-Fi?
Small and medium-sized businesses have now had a few years to incentivize the "check-in." Between Foursquare, Facebook, and other networks that offer location broadcasting, busine...
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Foursquare Adds to Its Connected Apps Offerings
If you haven't tried connecting third-party apps to your Foursquare account, you're doing Foursquare wrong. Sure, Foursquare offers plenty of information on the locations at whic...
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Foursquare to Launch New Search-Oriented Homepage
We say it a lot whenever we're talking about Foursquare - but the company that started as a simple gamified check-in app has been consistently "moving beyond the check-in" as of la...
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