Foursquare will no longer need users to "check in" to their locations, instead opting to send users tips and notifications about their locations when they arrive, CEO Dennis Crowley announced today. There's no
Published on: August 29th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
Marketers using Adobe Systems Inc. for their social media campaigns will now be able to do it all on one dashboard, as Adobe is releasing updates to its Marketing Cloud program today. Right
Published on: July 18th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
By now you've probably heard that Foursquare had initiated a retail program that allows users to check in to locations and save money with their Visa or MasterCard. In fact, it's been almost
Published on: March 4th, 2013
Karim Kanji
@karimkanji
Geolocation service Foursquare is on the rise. Founded in 2009, by this week it has registered over a half million merchants, after counting 10 million users in June. Foursquare is trying to define
Canadian businesses have another place to claim their local listing information after Facebook Places was launched in the country on Friday.Similar to other location-based social networking services such as Foursquare or Gowalla, Facebook
First there was location-based social network Foursquare. Then Gowalla and other sites followed suit and launched. And now with news that Facebook is slowly rolling out its own location-based technology, you can expect
Published on: August 25th, 2010
Kristin Burnham
@itbusinessca
Facebook's unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Facebook Places allows users to share their location and discover new hot
Published on: August 24th, 2010
Michael Ansaldo
@itbusinessca
Pressed to respond to the rising popularity of online services that let people broadcast their location, Facebook mostly hit the right notes with the initial design of Places, although it's too early to
Published on: August 23rd, 2010
Juan Carlos Perez
@itbusinessca
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late on Wednesday announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places."This is going to be a really fun and interesting summer,"
Published on: August 20th, 2010
Robert Strohmeyer
@itbusinessca
Though you might not like the idea of major companies keeping tabs on you in real time, applications that utilize location technology are steadily becoming more popular among smartphone users. Location-based services use
Published on: July 20th, 2010
Leah Yamshon
@itbusinessca
An insurance expert told the Britain's Telegraph newspaper that using location-centric mobile social services like Google Buzz, Twitter , Facebook and Foursquare could raise your home insurance premiums, or even result in the
Published on: February 24th, 2010
Mike Elgan
@itbusinessca
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