It's obvious that Facebook sees serious potential in mobile check-in service Foursquare: it tried to buy it for $125 million. That didn't work. So Facebook started to get into the location game, too.

Tweeting was the breakout Web term for 2009. The early favorite for 2010? Checking in. That’s the basis of Foursquare, the gorilla in a new wave of location-based social-networking sites. While sites ...

Foursquare just got Facebooked. And it’s more than just a poking. It might be a body blow to one of the location-based service’s killer features. When I first covered Foursquare for TIME in January, I ...

One of the first things I thought of at the announcement of Facebook Deals, was the possible demise of the pioneer in location-based services, Foursquare. I’m sure I wasn’t alone. But Foursquare , ...

Business owners who rely on Facebook and Foursquare to drive customers will notice some significant changes to their pages on the sites. Facebook has redesigned its mobile Pages for businesses and ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today Foursquare split itself in two. A struggling giant in social, ...

One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing location-based check-in services. There may be some ...

In February, we got out first peak at the alleged “Facebook phone,” the INQ Cloud Touch. The Android-based smartphone has a customized UI layer and put Facebook features at its forefront, but now the ...

Can They Maintain? Adrianne Jeffries at ReadWriteWeb echoes Siegler: "That likely means upwards of 18,000 people signed up for the location-based social network, probably buoyed by a glowing article ...

With the launch of Facebook Places on August 18, there was much speculation about what this meant for Foursquare. Would they be crushed? Would Facebook’s 500M user reach make the New York startup ...

Could Facebook's recent tooing and froing over the implementation of its location-based tool be because the social network was waiting to do a deal with Foursquare? If a report on All Things Digital's ...

“We want to build tools that change the way all the people in this room experience the real world,” said Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley at the Web 2.0 Summit today, as he described his company’s ...