Facebook to Foursquare: You're out. It's obvious that Facebook sees serious potential in mobile check-in service Foursquare: it tried to buy it for $125 million .
That didn't work. So Facebook started to get into the location game, too. It launched Facebook Places, its own geolocation service. And today, Facebook went ahead and launched a big new suite of mobile features that includes, notably, enhancements to Facebook Places that let businesses easily automate "deals" for when users check in. Google Needs To Buy Foursquare Now, Before It's Too Late.
Pass the checkbook, please. Google has put Marissa Mayer in charge of location services, which suggests that Google is finally taking location seriously. That's good. Now Google needs to write a check for Foursquare, before it's too late. Google missed the social revolution. Google should buy Twitter to address this problem, but Twitter has gotten so huge and self-sufficient that it would take an absolutely monster check to pry it loose. In the meantime, Google should buy Foursquare, which will vault Google into the leading position in the next wave of consumer Internet development: location-based services.
We Don't Need No Stinking Badges. The FourSquare Burger Four squared cheeses, one... Foursquare takes on Comic-Con with a Superman badge. Comic-Con is obviously a very popular event among foursquare’s geek-heavy user population. Last night’s Comic-Con preview unlocked the Super Swarm badge (more than 250 users checked in at once) and today when users checked in, they received a special surprise: a Comic-Con 2010 badge . The unlock text reads: Welcome to Metropolis, errr San Diego. You’ve just scored the Superman badge! Now show this at the WB booth to pick up some free swag, while supplies last. In addition to providing swag for badge-holders, Warner Brothers has promoted their booth with more than 50 tips in and around Comic-Con, like this one on the main Comic-Con venue page: Play new Warner Bros. games like the Lord of the Rings: Aragon’s Quest; F.E.A.R. 3 and Mortal Kombat at the WB Booth.
LOOPZ is also taking advantage of foursquare to promote their booth. No related posts. Everybody Is Wrong About Facebook's Foursquare-Killer. WSJ Uses Foursquare To Alert Users About Times Square Evacuation. The Wall Street Journal just checked-in on Foursquare – to tell people that Times Square has been evacuated due to a suspicious package (thankfully a false alarm).
Here is a screenshot of the check-in taken by Foursqure’s CEO Dennis Crowley: Not sure if this is a first, but it certainly seems to one of the most high-profile uses by a major media publication of a checkin service. Really, this use makes perfect sense, especially in New York City which is one of the top Foursquare usage cities (Foursquare is based in NYC). In a way, this is kind of like the WSJ using Foursquare as a kind of reverse-iReport app (CNN’s iPhone app) and there are many future applications that can come out of this for disaster/crisis response.
At any rate, this is just another mainstream example of why social location services are poised to become an integral part of our lives, in good times and in bad. Foursquare lance une différenciation entre les "Check-In" des em. Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYT. New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget I. NEW YORK—While millions of young, tech-savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter to keep in constant touch with friends, a new social networking platform called Foursquare has recently taken the oh, fucking hell, can't some other desperate news outlet cover this crap instead?
Hip city-dwellers nationwide are embracing the new, come to think of it, haven't we used this photo for some other tech piece? Jack Dorsey: I love @foursquare. La stratégie de Starbucks sur Foursquare est elle à revoir ? Foursquare continue de « checker » de nouveaux utilisateurs. Foursquare Closes $20 Million Series B From Andreessen Horowitz, Foursquare, the geo-mobile startup everybody tried to invest in or buy, now has officially closed its Series B funding round.
The “wire transfer heard ’round the world,” as board member Bryce Roberts puts it, was for $20 million, giving the company a $95 million pre-money valuation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, as previously reported, with existing investors Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures participating. Some Thoughts On Foursquare. Our portfolio company Foursquare closed a second round of financing yesterday.
This was a much covered financing process and also much criticized. I think it makes an excellent case to talk about some conventional notions and why they might not be right. Back in the early spring Foursquare decided that it needed to raise more money to support its growth, both service growth/scaling and team growth. Foursquare identified about a half dozen venture firms that it thought would be ideal investors and opened discussions with them.