By Ben Popper 7/12/11 7:54am

Location Based

Now with more Brazilian wax.

Foursquare to Serve up Daily Deals From LivingSocial, Gilt Groupe and AT&T

Just when Betabeat goes and starts ragging on Foursquare for not being aggressive enough about generating some real revenue, BAM, they announce a partnership with some of the biggest names in the daily deal and flash sale world. According to Spencer Ante at the Wall Street Journal, Foursquare will remarket bargins from these services, using its intimate knowledge of the shopping habits and current location of over 10 million users to target customers who might engage with these deals. Read More

By Ben Popper 3/29/11 4:21pm

Poached

ashkay patil

Foursquare’s New Hire On Leaving Google and Taking Real-Time Data Personal

Akshay Patil logged his first check in back in the summer of 2005, as a rookie Google employee working across the hall from Dodgeball. At the time he found it solved multiple problems – from goe-locating to group messaging – that are currently the rage among mobile apps. “Maybe because it was novel at the time, but one of my favorite experiences in the location space was with Dodgeball, long ago. Read More