Foursquare introduced a major redesign to its. Gone are the check ins and the old-school layout of days past. Foursquare 8.0 ushers in a whole new era for the local search app. It plans to take on ...

You could be forgiven for wondering whether Foursquare even still existed. The once hyped social media company had already fallen off many people's radars before its 2014 relaunch. That event failed ...

Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. Crowley is the founder of Foursquare, the seminal social networking service that broadcasts your location across the net and serves you ...

In 2010, when Ariela Ross seized the mayorship of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque on Foursquare—a smartphone app that allows users to broadcast their location to followers with a tap on the screen, known ...

Foursquare released Swarm as a standalone check-in app in May 2014 and converted the original app to search discovery. Foursquare Swarm is Foursquare -- the Foursquare you used to know. The app, spun ...

Foursquare, after 10 years in business, made its first ever acquisition this month: it bought foot-traffic measurement firm Placed from Snap Inc., financed by a new $150 million investment round in ...

For Placed, life at Foursquare is a lot different than life was at Snap. Case in point: Foursquare and Placed completed the integration of their first-party audience data sets into a single ...

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?

Foursquare was once believed to be the next big social app. On storefronts, business owners featured a Foursquare logo, next to Facebook and Twitter. People flocked to it to learn what their friends ...

Foursquare cofounder and executive chairman Dennis Crowley on how a SXSW phenom figured out how to matter without scaling up to a billion users, why he loves New York, and what’s next. On March 11, ...

Foursquare, the social media platform of yesteryear turned enterprise tech company, announced a $150 million funding infusion on Thursday as well as its first acquisition. Placed, the Snap Inc.-owned ...

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...