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Foursquare and NFC: how the two can help each other

By Feb. 10, 2012, 1:09pm PT No Comments

Foursquare has updated its Android app to include support for tap-and-go check-ins and P2P sharing using NFC. The app will now be able to read NFC tags at a location and immediately take a user to a venue page, where they can check-in. Read More »

Early leader in NYC BigApps competition: Foursquare

By Feb. 9, 2012, 2:51pm PT 6 Comments

New York City kicked off voting on Thursday on its third annual BigApps competition, which rewards apps that use its open data sets. But one of the most popular resources appears to be Foursquare, which is in use in more than half of the top apps. Read More »

Walkbase showcases indoor location tech with auto check-in app

By Jan. 29, 2012, 9:00am PT 6 Comments

A Finnish company called Walkbase is looking to bring to market a very simple and scalable solution for indoor positioning that can help map out rooms using crowd-sourced data and smart algorithms. It’s showing off its technology with a new auto Foursquare check-in app called Checked.… Read More »

Foursquare: still mobile-focused, but with more love for the web

By Jan. 12, 2012, 10:58am PT No Comments

Foursquare today introduced its Explore recommendation and search function to its desktop website. The company, which began as a mobile app, is finding new opportunity in beefing up its web presence and leveraging all of its check-in data, recommendations and tips. Read More »

My resolution: Be a better manager

By Dennis Crowley Jan. 2, 2012, 12:00am PT No Comments

Dennis Crowley, the CEO of FourSquare, explains how as a company grows, the chain of communication changes and it’s a difficult balance to make sure the company can be as transparent with 100 people as it is with 20 people. Read More »

Not banned in Boston: Tweet seats come to a theater near you

By Dec. 28, 2011, 10:50am PT 1 Comment

In what purists see as capitulation to attention deficit disorder, several Boston theaters plan to offer special “tweet seats” for cell-phone wielding patrons. Boston is following in the footsteps of venues like the Palm Beach Opera and Norma Terris Theater that already breached the tweet/no-tweet divide. Read More »

How Siri could help boost location-based services

By Dec. 19, 2011, 12:30pm PT 5 Comments

Mainstream mobile users have been slow to embrace location-based services. But location apps could really see a boost through the smart use of voice activated AI systems like Siri, which can help users more easily unlock the world around them. Read More »

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NoSQL’s great, but bring your A game
By Dec. 17, 2011, 12:00pm PT 12 Comments

At last week’s MongoSV conference in Santa Clara, Calif., a number of users shared their experiences with the MongoDB NoSQL database. One common theme: NoSQL is necessary for a lot of use cases, but it’s not for companies afraid of hard work. Read More »

Life360 pulls in $3.5M round, hits 10 million users
By Dec. 13, 2011, 6:00am PT 2 Comments

Life360, a mobile family safety app, has been on a tear and is now up to 10 million users. That growth has helped the San Francisco start-up pull in a $3.5 million Series A round from a host of investors. Read More »

Talent acquisitions: Facebook’s kiss of death
By Dec. 9, 2011, 8:30am PT 5 Comments

Nobody was surprised when Gowalla announced that it would be shutting down after selling to Facebook — after all, almost none of the services it has bought in the past five years have stayed alive. But is this sell up-shut down approach fair on users? Read More »

It’s official: Facebook buys Gowalla team
By Dec. 5, 2011, 9:09am PT 1 Comment

Gowalla has had a good run in the location-based check-in market, taking on Foursquare before getting lapped by its New York rival. Now, Facebook is confirming it has bought the team behind Austin-based Gowalla to bolster its new Timeline feature. Read More »

How unique online platforms grease the wheels of innovation
By Lisa Petrucci, Joyent Dec. 4, 2011, 9:00am PT 5 Comments

Today there is a far greater chance that ordinary folks can bring, say, the next MMO to market. What’s changed? The arrival of specialized Platform-as-a-Service. Lisa Petrucci of Joyent explains why it’s easier than ever to innovate. Read More »

Fondu builds a mobile social network for bite-sized places reviews
By Nov. 22, 2011, 11:00am PT No Comments

Fondu, a New York start-up, is launching its mobile app on iOS today, introducing a purpose-built mobile social network designed specifically for discovering places through friends. It mixes some of Yelp’s structure with Foursquare’s tips and Twitter’s short messages. Read More »

Can a new wave of apps kill the 5-star rating system?
By Nov. 21, 2011, 4:40pm PT 11 Comments

A new wave of apps aims to replace the increasingly crowded space of long-winded five-star user generated reviews (like those on Yelp and Amazon) with straightforward social recommendations. The newest entrant in this field, an iPhone app called Stamped, aims to win with simplicity. Read More »

Yelp top brass cashed out $36M in pre-IPO stock sale
By Nov. 17, 2011, 2:42pm PT 4 Comments

Six of Yelp’s top executives and investors cashed out $36.8 million worth of company stock during Yelp’s Series E funding round in early 2010, according to the company’s IPO filing, with CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and board chairman Max Levchin each selling some $15 million of stock. Read More »

Yelp files for $100M initial public offering
By Nov. 17, 2011, 12:37pm PT 2 Comments

Yelp, the San Francisco-based local reviews website, has filed official documents to raise up to $100 million in an IPO of its stock. The filing reveals that Yelp pulls in solid top line sales, but has yet to turn a profit at the bottom line. Read More »

The new whiz kids
By Nov. 13, 2011, 12:00pm PT 5 Comments

Thirty years after Steve Jobs and Bill Gates revolutionized personal computing, there’s a new generation of entrepreneurs focused on bringing people together. Folks like Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Crowley are leading the charge in changing the way people communicate andinteract with each other. Read More »

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