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Articles tagged “foursquare”

Online Travel

Skift Podcast: The Past and Future of Local Discovery

No one company has cracked local discovery the way people have long hoped some company would. But as mobile devices become more knowledgable about what we see and do, services like Foursquare and its rivals could become much more interesting.

Skift Podcast: The Past and Future of Local Discovery

Media and PR

Foursquare Is Getting Into the Social Trip Planning Business

The travel startup scene is littered with the corpses of social trip-planning services. But Foursquare's check-ins are a gold mine of data, and it's smart enough that it knows this is a nice-to-have feature, not a business in itself.

Foursquare Is Getting Into the Social Trip Planning Business

Media and PR

New Foursquare Release Is Company’s Grasp at Mastering Local Discovery

This is the first version of Foursquare we can see ourselves using. The personalization features make it easier to discover places that are likely right for you.

New Foursquare Release Is Company’s Grasp at Mastering Local Discovery

Media and PR

Foursquare Releases New Logo Before Splitting Its Product in Half

Foursquare's making a big bet that users will check-in to the new experience, but it needed a big change to move forward.

Foursquare Releases New Logo Before Splitting Its Product in Half

Media and PR

New Skift Report: The Rise of Location Data in Travel

Geolocation is everything to travel now. From the smartphone in your hand to recommendations based on location coming to you on your desktop, information is tied to real-world locations now in ways that have revolutionized travel.

New Skift Report: The Rise of Location Data in Travel

Online Travel

The Top 31 Most Heavily Venture-Funded Startups In Travel

The global travel industry is going through a lot of disruption, and the biggest sectors include the sharing economy and ground transportation, as well as one large potential winner in the hotel booking sector.

The Top 31 Most Heavily Venture-Funded Startups In Travel

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Airports Are the Most Frequently Checked Into U.S. Places on Foursquare

Travel activities make up a significant portion of social sharing, creating vast opportunities for companies to engage customers before, during, and after a trip.

Airports Are the Most Frequently Checked Into U.S. Places on Foursquare

Online Travel

Foursquare Rolls Out Real-Time Local Recommendations to iOS Users

This is the digital manifestation of travelers' desires to have more authentic experiences. The greatest differentiator between Foursquare's new feature and other discovery services will be the quality of the user community that provides the tips.

Foursquare Rolls Out Real-Time Local Recommendations to iOS Users

Online Travel

Foursquare’s real value lies in building maps made of people

A focus on people supports what we’ve argued is Foursquare’s best use case: a local discovery and recommendation engine. To know where and when your friends go makes Foursquare the most personalized searched engine out there.

Foursquare’s real value lies in building maps made of people

Online Travel

Yelp updates Nearby feature to suggest businesses based on location, user data

Yelp promises that Nearby is “just the beginning” as it goes head-on with Foursquare to offer mobile location-based searches that are useful to travelers in most major global cities.