Foursquare Readies Local Recommendations with App Running in Background

Earlier this year, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley raised $41 million, and promised to use that money “to do the things we want to do.”

Today, he’s giving people a glimpse of what that looks like: A new feature that will allow (a few) Foursquare users to automatically get tips, from their phone, about a place they’re in, without having to boot up the app itself.

“This is the version of Foursquare that we’ve been talking about building for a long time,” Crowley said. He teased the idea yesterday, via this oblique Instagram post.