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Foursquare funding. Foursquare community growth. Foursquare development. Foursquare Company Profile. Foursquare is a free mobile app that helps users keep up and meet up with friends. Since 2009, more than 45 million people have joined Foursquare, checking in around the world over 5 billion times. Those check-ins power the Foursquare Explore search engine, which provides personalized recommendations of the best places nearby. In addition, more than 1.6 million businesses from large brands to small merchants have used its advertising and merchant tools to attract and maintain customers. More than 50,000 developers use the Foursquare API to add location to their apps.

It has applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Nokia S40/Asha, and Symbian. Foursquare was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in New York City and has offices in San Francisco and London. Foursquare (service) Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby.[3] Location is based on GPS hardware in the mobile device or network location provided by the application, and the map is based on data from the OpenStreetMap project.

Each check-in awards the user points and sometimes "badges". The user who checks in the most often to a venue becomes the "mayor," and users regularly vie for "mayorships. " Foursquare is the second iteration of the same idea, that people can use mobile devices to interact with their environment. As of April 2012, the company reported it had 20 million registered users.[5] The company was expected to pass 750 million check-ins before the end of June 2011, with an average of about 3 million check-ins per day.

Features[edit] Mayorship[edit] Badges[edit] Scoring[edit] Foursquare Hasn’t Started Playing The Monetization Game Just Yet. There’s some hoopla today that the location-based social network Foursquare has found its business model (and as such, has beaten the more mature Twitter to one). But hold your horses. While Foursquare does have an idea for how to eventually make money (as we’ve discussed in the past), they aren’t actually focusing on making any just yet, co-founder Dennis Crowley confirmed to us today. While there is a Foursquare For Business section on the site now, there is no monetization plan for any of these deals yet. “[We're] really just focusing on getting the product working properly (crashes / UX etc). [It's] worth noting that we don’t want to shoehorn biz stuff in at the last min, which is why we’re trying to get local merchants involved now.

Even if all the deals are freebees,” Crowley wrote to us in an email. That being said, obviously, Foursquare eventually hopes these types of deals (dubbed “Mayor Deals”) become a business of some kind. There’s also the issue of price. It’s 4SQ Day, But Foursquare Has (Almost) Nothing To Do With It. It’s the day after tax filings are due, and that means one thing: 4SQ Day! Actually, the timing of 4SQ Day has nothing to do with a post-tax-filing celebration. The date (4/16) is four squared. Swarms of Foursquare users are planning to meet in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, and even London. About 150 businesses and counting across the country and a few in Europe are celebrating by giving Foursquare users special one-day deals and there is even a new badge. Even McDonald’s is getting involved.

Sounds like another quirky marketing stunt by Foursquare, the geo-social startup that gives you points and prestige (okay, badges) to check in everywhere. But Foursquare has almost nothing to do with 4SQ Day other than making the badge. The Facebook-Foursquare Rumors And Everything Else You Want To K.