"Foursquare" news, interviews, and features

News about Foursquare

• Net neutrality advocates plan slow-lane protest

  Several large websites will display site-loading spinning wheel icons to symbolize slow connections

• Is your waiter reading your tweets?

  New point-of-sale iPad app alerts restaurant staff to patrons' reviews and comments

• Top executives fly the coop at Twitter, Foursquare

  A top engineer at Twitter, and two business executives at Foursquare, are leaving

• Foursquare pulls a Facebook with check-in spin-off Swarm

  Foursquare putting its most well-known feature in a separate app. Is it a bold move or a risky one?

• Foursquare splinters itself in two, will launch new app called 'Swarm'

  Swarm will provide mobile messaging based on the locations of friends

• Facebook wants to help you meet friends offline

  A new optional feature broadcasts people's locations to their friends

Features about Foursquare

• Facebook places will crush foursquare

  Foursquare may have put location-based check-in on the map, but Facebook Places will quickly render Foursquare obsolete

• Why you'll use Foursquare

  If you avoid location services, or are even actively hostile toward them, I'm here to deliver some bad news