It's obvious that Facebook sees serious potential in mobile check-in service Foursquare: it tried to buy it for $125 million. That didn't work. So Facebook started to get into the location game, too.

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Foursquare just got Facebooked. And it’s more than just a poking. It might be a body blow to one of the location-based service’s killer features. When I first covered Foursquare for TIME in January, I ...

One of the first things I thought of at the announcement of Facebook Deals, was the possible demise of the pioneer in location-based services, Foursquare. I’m sure I wasn’t alone. But Foursquare , ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today Foursquare split itself in two. A struggling giant in social, ...

With the launch of Facebook Places on August 18, there was much speculation about what this meant for Foursquare. Would they be crushed? Would Facebook’s 500M user reach make the New York startup ...

One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing location-based check-in services. There may be some ...

The one thing all existing location based apps have over Facebook Places the social network's recent experiment into the location based sector is a sense of personality. While it might be easy to ...

In February, we got out first peak at the alleged “Facebook phone,” the INQ Cloud Touch. The Android-based smartphone has a customized UI layer and put Facebook features at its forefront, but now the ...