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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
[4] [7] After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, [8] [9] Crowley found work at a company called Area/Code where he met Naveen Selvadurai and co-founded Foursquare in 2009. [ 2 ] [ 10 ] Foursquare, known for its location intelligence offerings for both enterprises and consumers, is used by more than 50 million people every month. [ 11 ]
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 ...
In 2009, Selvadurai co-founded Foursquare with Dennis Crowley. It 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. [14]
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