Neowin News Feed for: Foursquare

Foursquare announces that its shutting its city guide app, focusing on Swarm

Steve Bennett — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:26:01 +0000

Location check-in app Swarm will be its main focus beyond 2024, with the original app sunsetting in December. Read more...

Microsoft Garage launches Tossup; wants to get your friends together faster

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:38:01 +0000

The folks at Microsoft Garage have launched a new app called Tossup, which wants to make getting together with friends easier and faster. The app allows you to poll people on meeting times and places. Read more...

Microsoft adds another feature to Cortana, Foursquare data now serves up recommendations

Brad Sams — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:58:58 +0000

Earlier this year, Microsoft invested in Foursquare and it looks like that partnership is now paying off as the data is being integrated into Cortana to serve up local recommendations. Read more...

Microsoft invests $15 million in Foursquare; will use its database in Windows and Bing

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:52:42 +0000

Microsoft is investing $15 million into Foursquare, and Microsoft has also signed a multi-year deal with the location-based social networking service to use its data in products like Bing. Read more...

Microsoft may be looking to make a 'strategic investment' in Foursquare

Brad Sams — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:51:54 +0000

A new report is stating that Microsoft is looking to make a strategic investment in Foursquare, the popular application that allows you to document your travel by ‘checking in' to locations. Read more...

Official Foursquare app for Windows 8 released

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:31:39 +0000

The official Foursquare Metro app for Windows 8 has been released in the Windows Store, allowing users of those PCs to let others know when they "check in" to a certain location. Read more...

Path and Flipboard coming to Windows Phone 8; Oggl Pro coming to Lumia 1020

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:52:23 +0000

Nokia has announced a number of new third party Windows Phone 8 apps , including Path, Flipboard and Oggl PRO, the latter of which will be released exclusively for the newly revealed Lumia 102 Read more...

Rhapsody and other new Windows 8 apps launched; Foursquare app in the works

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:41:21 +0000

Microsoft has announced a number of new Windows 8 apps are now available to download such as Rhapsody, OpenTable and others, while an official Foursquare Windows 8 app is in the works. Read more...

Foursquare app for Windows Phone 8 gets major new update

John Callaham — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:59:15 +0000

The Windows Phone 8 version of the popular Fourquare app has received a major new update that adds some new features, including a new Modern user interface and more. Read more...

Nokia Lumia phones to get more exclusive Windows Phone apps

John Callaham — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:25:48 +0000

Nokia has announced that its Lumia smartphones will gain a number of Windows Phone-based apps made exclusively for those smartphones, including an official Foursquare app. Read more...

FourSquare served lawsuit over patents on GPS usage

Paul Ferson — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:46:54 +0000

Location networking service FourSquare has been hit with lawsuits for infringing on two obscure U.S. Patents relating how GPS is used to share information. Read more...

Bing adds Foursquare support for searches

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:06:48 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has added tips and recommendations from the Foursquare social networking service, allowing users to find more information about various locations. Read more...

Reddit and other sites hit with "leap second" bug

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:10:24 +0000

Reddit and many other major websites went down on Saturday afternoon and evening due to a bug that didn't take into account the "leap second" that was added to the world's clocks. Read more...

Microsoft shows off a Nokia gift machine using Foursquare

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:41:54 +0000

Microsoft has installed a Nokia gift machine for an advertising conference in Cannes this week that uses Foursquare to give attendees a random gift when they sign in. Read more...

Foursquare survives round one of Facebook Places

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:39:15 +0000

Facebook is making waves once again with the launch of its location-based service Facebook Places. Along with the requisite privacy concerns that accompanies every Facebook announcement these days (the service is enabled by default), the... Read more...

Foursquare in talks with search engines over data partnerships

Tom Warren — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:59:36 +0000

Foursquare, the location-based social networking site, is in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo regarding potential search partnerships, according to a report in The Telegraph. Speaking to The Telegraph, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s co-founder, said that his... Read more...

Bing pushes out Spring UI updates and Foursquare integration

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:23:52 +0000

Microsoft said on Thursday that it is updating Bing with several new UI enhancements and newly announced Foursquare integration. Bing has made several refinements to the user interface (UI). Microsoft has added a new "Bing Box"... Read more...