Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa might earn the title of “mayor” through Foursquare.


Read More: Mayor of Tampa Using Foursquare… to Become Mayor Again

When you're visiting a city for the first time, you have a lot of options to help you find cool places to go. You can ask your friends and locals,...

Read More: Tampa Mayor uses foursquare to help you tour his city

Foursquare is one of the most emblematic technology companies of our generation with over 10 million users, a $600 million valuation and 3,400% growth in the past year. It's hyper-local, social,...

Read More: This guy wrote the book on Foursquare for Business, literally.

Foursquare has positioned itself as the top check-in application on the planet. From what we can see, Facebook Places has not gained steam yet, and hasn't made itself a true...

Read More: Powered by foursquare, roadninja is your interstate exit guide

People from all over the world have tapped the "check-in" button on the foursquare app. The foursquare community team put together a video based on a call for check-in clips...

Read More: Foursquare celebrates its over 1 billion check-ins with a #4sqVid [video]

In a blog post today, location-based app foursquare (yes, intentionally no capital F apparently) announced a new feature specifically for iOS5 called ‘Radar'. A lot of app makers are creating new features that take advantage of all of Apple's new iOS5 functionality, and foursquare was quick out of the gates to announce its own. The update for [...]

Read More: foursquare announces social location feature called ‘Radar’ for iOS5

In a blog post today, location-based app foursquare (yes, intentionally no capital F apparently) announced a new feature specifically for iOS5 called ‘Radar'. A lot of app makers are creating new features...

Read More: foursquare announces social location feature called ‘Radar’ for iOS5

I found this new concept pretty interesting and have been wondering if it is really worth all the excitement it has been generating. Nokia looks to be involved in one of the first location-based technology vending machines. You may think that it seems to be a cool match, but will the connection last beyond its introduction at Social Media Week?


Read More: Nokia Creates Foursquare Check-In Vending Machine

The social networking service known as foursquare, which launched in 2009, announced this week that it hit a whole new place value with its check-ins – billions.


Read More: Foursquare Makes it to a Billion Check-ins

Even though it is not official yet, with a formal announcement later this week, Foursquare will be introducing a new privacy option to help prevent users from unknowingly share home addresses with complete strangers.


Read More: Foursquare Adds Privacy Option with Home Address

Just last week, foursquare passed 1billion check-ins on its service after opening up the location-based social networking platform to over 1.5 billion more people by integrating five new languages. 1...

Read More: Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins [Video]

Just last week, foursquare passed 1billion check-ins on its service after opening up the location-based social networking platform to over 1.5 billion more people by integrating five new languages. 1 billion check-ins represents a huge metric for the company launched in 2009.To celebrate, foursquare put together a birds-eye view video of the world as it populates with foursquare check-ins, along with an updated version of its mobile app that now displays its new Lists feature. As for the video, [...]

Read More: Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins [Video]

CBS has linked their hit show "The Amazing Race" with Foursquare and created a brand page on the site. Given the topic of the show (traveling to different destinations all over the world) it completely makes sense for CBS to make this move. Here's the message on their Foursquare page: CBS's "The Amazing Race" celebrates ...

Read More: “The Amazing Race” Adds Video Tips and Team Checkins via Foursquare

Facebook appears to have added cross-linking between Pages and other location-based sites like Foursquare, Yelp, Gowalla and SCVNGR to its Pages, reports Scribbal. Tech evangelist Robert Scoble posted a notice on his Google+ profile earlier today that  indicated a new partnership between Foursquare and Facebook as the Page for a place was shown to direct viewers to the comparable location on Foursquare.The links appear off to the left underneath the ‘Like' count and checkin count on a loca [...]

Read More: Facebook may be adding cross-linking to Foursquare, Yelp, Gowalla and more on Pages

Foursquare released real-time APIs (User push API and Venue push API) to give developers real-time access to a subset of Foursquare check-ins. This means that other apps can make use of Foursquare's large user and venue information store (assuming the user opts-in).


Read More: New Foursquare Push APIs Bring the Promise of Cool New 3rd Party Location Apps

Yelp , the popular city-guides website fleshed out with user-generated reviews of local business, including restaurants, bars and shops, is about to get a run for its money.The ever-powerful search engine Google announced on a company-sponsored blog today that it purchased Zagat. This puts a new recognizable–and highly regarded–reviews brand under its belt while getting a leg up in the increasingly competitive local commerce arena.Founded 32-plus years ago by Nina and Tim Zagat, the [...]

Read More: Google Buys Zagat, Ups Ante for Yelp and Foursquare

foursquare thinks its users ought to be in pictures — moving pictures, that is.

Read More: foursquare Asks Users for ‘I Just Checked In’ Videos, Photos

Over 1.5bn more people now have access to foursquare thanks to the recent language expansion. Now available in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai, foursquare hopes to meet the global demands of its international members with native-language access.Why these languages specifically? According to the official foursquare blog, these are the areas that represent the most growth for the app.You can either check out the foursquare website to see the changes yourself, or update you [...]

Read More: Foursquare opens up to 1.5bn more people by adding 5 new languages

Great ideas only come around every so often, but some of us simply lack the ambition to bring these concepts to life. The startup business is a cutthroat world full of forceful competition, and the entire experience of attempting to build your company from the ground up can definitely be an intimidating one. Fortunately, Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley was able to part with a bit of welcome advice during an interview with angel investor Kevin Rose.Foursquare, with well over 10 million users [...]

Read More: Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley offers motivational advice

How do you say, “check in,” in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai? foursquare users can now answer that question, as the location-based mobile app announced support for those five languages.

Read More: foursquare Adds Support for Five Languages