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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.
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]
[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]
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 ]
Marc Lowell Andreessen [pronunciation?] (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer.He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Walker interned at Twitter and Boston Consulting Group, before working at Foursquare as the third employee and director of business development. [8] In 2012, Walker was the Entrepreneur-in-residence at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. [9] While there, he co-founded CODE2040 and Walker & Co.
The first Four Square, the first supermarket in New Zealand, opened in the 1920s. [3]Four Square emerged as a household name in the 1920s out of the Foodstuffs grocery buying co-operative, whose founder, John Heaton Barker, became concerned at the manner in which the activities of the grocery chain stores of the day were making life difficult for independent grocers in Auckland.