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.

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 ...

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 , ...

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 ...

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Dennis Crowley, chief executive of Foursquare, tweeted that the location-based service had experienced its "biggest day ever in terms of new signups". Facebook this week launched Facebook Places, a ...

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 ...

Business owners who rely on Facebook and Foursquare to drive customers will notice some significant changes to their pages on the sites. Facebook has redesigned its mobile Pages for businesses and ...

Can They Maintain? Adrianne Jeffries at ReadWriteWeb echoes Siegler: "That likely means upwards of 18,000 people signed up for the location-based social network, probably buoyed by a glowing article ...

If all the speculation pans out and later today Facebook unveils a location service for its site, it will excite some users, cause new privacy concerns and make for a really bad day for the folks at ...