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Foursquare Labs Inc., commonly known as Foursquare, is a geolocation technology company and data cloud platform based in the United States. Founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009, the company rose to prominence with the launch of its local search-and-discovery mobile app. The app, Foursquare City Guide, popularized the concept ...
Foursquare app running on a Pebble Steel smartwatch. Foursquare uses proprietary technology, Pilgrim, to detect a user's location. When users opt in to always-on location sharing, Pilgrim determines a user's current location by comparing historical check-in data with the user's current GPS signal, cell tower triangulation, cellular signal strength and surrounding wifi signals.
Naveen Selvadurai (born January 27, 1982) is an American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of location-based social networking site Foursquare.com. [1][2][3][4] Until recently, [5] he was working at startup studio Expa which was founded by co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon - Garrett Camp, as a partner. [6][7] He was featured in Inc Magazine ...
Foursquare may have fallen off your radar, but it's far from dead -- rather, it has morphed into a business analytics juggernaut, selling its location data and API to businesses like Capital One ...
Check-in phenom Foursquare just announced that it has passed 3 million users, further cementing its growing lead in the business of mobile social networking -- and increasingly, in mobile ...
Red hot startup Foursquare took social networking to a new level by offering geo-location services that allow users to notify their friends about where they are shopping, eating or drinking. In ...
Square (financial services) Square is a point-of-sale (POS) system designed for small and medium-sized businesses. [1] Launched in 2009 by Block, Inc., [2] it allows merchants and individuals to accept card payments and manage various operations.
More than a year ago, Foursquare decided to split its app in two. The main app was now focused on location discovery, while Swarm was created to handle the social check-in side of things. The reason?