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Check-in phenom Foursquare just announced that it has passed 3 million users, further cementing its growing lead in the business of mobile social networking -- and increasingly, in mobile ...
Foursquare Labs Inc., commonly known as Foursquare, is a geolocation technology company and data cloud platform based in the United States. Founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009, the company rose to prominence with the launch of its local search-and-discovery mobile app.
The cloud outage lasted roughly 30 minutes, but took down the Web sites and services of many major Amazon cloud customers, including Netflix, Reddit and Foursquare. The issue happened in the networks that connect the Availability Zones to the Internet and was primarily caused by a software bug in the router.
Foursquare app running on a Pebble Steel smartwatch. Foursquare uses proprietary technology, Pilgrim, to detect a user's location. When users opt in to always-on location sharing, Pilgrim determines a user's current location by comparing historical check-in data with the user's current GPS signal, cell tower triangulation, cellular signal strength and surrounding wifi signals.
Yelp is only the latest big player to take on mobile social networking leader Foursquare. Last week restaurant review site Yelp rolled out a Foursquare-like system of badge awards for location ...
Everybody seems to be going after Google lately. First Facebook gave the company a run for its money by unveiling Graph Search. Never one to be outdone, Apple has also decided to heat up the ...
Location and check-in data collected in Swarm are used to improve a user's recommendations in Foursquare City Guide. Splitting check-ins and general location sharing into the separate Swarm app was designed to let the main Foursquare app focus on exploring and discovering information on locations in a Yelp-like fashion. [5]
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