Foursquare is one the first and most powerful location sharing services having over 20,000,000 users worldwide. Over 750,000 businesses have adopted Foursquare to connect better with their consumers, reward them for their loyalty and attract new customers. These businesses have been using the free tools that Foursquare provides to engage with their customers. Now, Foursquare has made it easy for new...

Foursquare, the location sharing start-up has made some nifty changes to its Facebook Integration. This integration is specially made so that it can take advantage of Facebook’s new Timeline for Brands feature. Many Foursquare users are encouraged by the service to add their social networking accounts to the service. These accounts include popular ones like Facebook and Twitter. Although, Foursquare...

When Foursquare was running all the same with check-ins, there was a sudden entry of a plethora of new features. The trend recently was with its Explore functions where users are driven into an adventure of discovering new places of interest on Foursquare. The new Explore app has been making news lately and is also included in the revamped website for Foursquare. This is another step ahead to stand...

Google Latitude comes from giant Google as an add-on with Google+. This works like a Leaderboard where users will get points for checking into a particular location through Google Latitude. This was unveiled last month when Google announced its new version of Google Maps for Android. The twist in the story is that this whole new feature echoes Foursquare though Google says it has no motive of standing...

Foursquare has announced the launch of an updated version of “Explore” for iPhone and android devices. This will club all the features of Foursquare on web from filtering, photos till location changing abilities. Users are now asked to update their mobile app to see the new changes in “Explore”. This gives a boost to Foursquare‘s local guide rolled out with friend’s...

Since the past year and a half, two buzzwords have been on everyone’s lips: Social and Location. With the advent of smartphones, people are now connected to the internet wherever they go. With the inclusion of GPS chips on almost all smartphones, their phones are now capable of telling where the owner is. Different brands advertise to different people at different places. With the advent of Facebook,...

Foursquare has grown its userbase almost thrice of what it was last year. It includes users from U.S as well as other parts of the globe. Foursquare announced these numbers blatantly and has proved the high rate acceleration of geo-social companies especially startups despite several stumbling blocks. 2011 has seen a humongous growth in this scene. However, while Foursquare is in the win-win situation,...

The most sought after social networking platform Foursquare has appeared in the numero uno position. Just the way Foursquare helps people and places connect through interfaces like mobiles, there are many other players in the same arena. Facebook Places, Loopt and Gowalla are trying to beat but Foursquare appears to be victorious with a whopping 10 million users giving a whole new dimension to the...

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing the so called pros in the arena like Foursquare and Gowalla. That’s what Financial Times points out in their official blog. The blog post reads, “Facebook Places, launched just five months ago,...

The success of a social network lies in its accessibility. To make Twitter more accessible across the globe, the company is introducing a new product — Twitter Translation Center. In their official blog, Twitter describes, “The Translation Center allows us to crowdsource translations from our passionate users in order to more quickly launch Twitter in additional languages.” Since they mentioned...