Is the "building on fire?"

Here's what it will start offering advertisers this summer.

Here's what he has to say about weak revenue figures, rumours of a struggled fundraise, and more.

Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg thinks so.

The bad news for Blackberry continues.

But it's far, far behind in the location-based advertising race.

The bad news for Blackberry continues.

"Valuation is very material to the Foursquare management team."

Selvadurai may have cashed out at the top.

Will $41 million in debt help Crowley prove this thing can be a business?

recognise this woman?

The tricky business of gauging when a platform is past its prime.

This is the fifth of the eight-part “The Mobile Experience Effect” series, which examines how small business owners can achieve more by using the latest in mobile technology. “The Mobile Experience Effect” is sponsored by Capital One SparkOne of the great advantages of mobile for small businesses is that when […]

This is the fifth of the eight-part “The Mobile Experience Effect” series, which examines how small business owners can achieve more by using the latest in mobile technology. “The Mobile Experience Effect” is sponsored by Capital One SparkDesktops and even laptops are slowly becoming less relevant. Now we work on-the-go, […]

[credit provider=”Flickr / dpstyles” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/sets/”] A couple months ago, we talked to a source close to Foursquare who told us that the company knows “checking-in” to restaurants and bars will never go mainstream, and that it was re-jiggering its app to make it useful for people who didn’t want to.Yesterday […]

[credit provider=””>Jess3″] As an entrepreneur, it can be hard to admit defeat. When Facebook Product Manager Josh Williams started working on Gowalla, a location-based social network, his ultimate vision was for “people to see the world through the eyes of their friends,” Williams recently wrote on Medium.

[credit provider=”Flickr / orphanjones” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/orphanjones/762062828/in/photostream/”] Good morning, AdLand. Here’s what you need to know today:Foursquare partnered up with Visa and MasterCard to give users more discounts when they shop. The company has struggled to engage advertisers at scale and monetise its check-in service. The new move is similar to what […]

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[credit provider=”Pierre Valade”] Two engineers recently left Foursquare to turn a side project into the main event, adding to a flow of talent out of the location service.Pierre Valade and Jeremy Le Van have created Sunrise, a calendar they hope will put Apple’s built-in one to shame. It’s an app that […]

[credit provider=”News Corp.”] We know vanishingly little about Apple’s top executives. At most we get dribs and drabs of information, like CEO Tim Cook’s bicycling regimen or design chief Jony Ive’s Aston Martin.Then there’s Apple executive Eddy Cue.

[credit provider=”brocpsu via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/drocpsu/1108311645/”] Everyone wants to try great local dives when they’re travelling, but they’re hard to come by.Foursquare crunched 3 billion check-ins across the nation and more than 10 million tips its 30 million users have left to find them for you.

[credit provider=”AP”] Venture capitalists and investors are continuing to pour money into startups.In fact, there is a vast number of startups that are worth billions, The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy reports.

[credit provider=”Shutterstock”] Facebook’s first attempt at a Foursquare killer, Facebook Places, didn’t make much of an impression.But Facebook persisted with building location features into the social network, and is now preparing a standalone friend-finding mobile app, Bloomberg reports.

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[credit provider=”Illustration by Business Insider”] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley have been friendly for some time.The two were spotted at dinner together in April 2011 when Mayer was still at Google.

[credit provider=”Robert Libetti/Business Insider”] A hot topic on question-and-answer site Quora recently: Why are so many employees leaving Foursquare, the New York-based check-in startup?Justin Moore, a former director of engineering at Foursquare who joined Facebook a year ago, offered his own take.

[credit provider=”Courtesy of Foursquare”] Nat Salvione, who works in business development for a startup called Tango Card, wrote us an email explaining why he quit using an app called Foursquare after “loving it” for almost a year.Nat’s thoughts are interesting in part because Foursquare is going through a bit of […]

[credit provider=”Taken by Mari Sheibley, provided by Foursquare”] PrivCo, a research company, claims Foursquare will “fail by the end of 2013” and sell for “less than $50 million.”

[credit provider=”Shutterstock”] Sometimes we need a little motivation to go the gym. Enter Gym Shamer, a tool that motivates you to exercise by threatening to publicly shame you. 

[credit provider=”Bloomberg TV”] A new PrivCo report says Foursquare will fail by the end of 2013.According to PrivCo’s sources, Foursquare is missing venture capitalist’s projections, and even its own projections, quarter after quarter. PrivCo thinks investors will get tired of this and sell their shares by year-end for less money […]

[credit provider=”Instagram/niabellagama” url=”http://statigr.am/p/323592707352192609_30142200″] Last week, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson wrote a blog post about privacy. He said a number of interesting things in it, like that Facebook copies everything.He also said this:

[credit provider=”News Corp.”] After Apple SVP Eddy Cue tweeted a couple of Foursquare check-ins, rumours spread that Apple was talking to Foursquare about using its data for local search.Since then, Cue has been more circumspect on Twitter. But he’s still actively using Foursquare.

[credit provider=”Bill Farrell Agency via Brew PR” url=”http://bfanyc.com/home/event/4032″] Two days ago, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley popped the big question to his girlfriend of four years, Chelsa Skees.She said yes!

[credit provider=”Robert Libetti/Business Insider”] Here at Business Insider, we go on a lot of office tours.Only a handful have blown us away.

Foursquare has notified its users that privacy policy changes will swing into effect next month, making more user data more public.

[credit provider=”AP”] Last week, Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue broadcast his location via Foursquare and Twitter, twice. He might as well have been broadcasting Apple’s plans for fixing its troubled mapping service.Apple is in talks with Foursquare to use the mobile location service’s data about local businesses in the maps […]

[credit provider=”TechCrunch” url=”http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/17/facebook-nearby/”] Facebook added a new location-based feature to its mobile apps that mimics much of what Yelp and Foursquare do.Under the “nearby” section of its mobile app, users will now be able to find local restaurants and small businesses.

Two of the most talked about startups in the tech world today are Pinterest and Foursquare.

[credit provider=”Daniel Goodman / Business Insider” url=”http://www.businessinsider.com.au/author/daniel-goodman”] It’s been a crazy year for the New York tech scene.We saw the Draw Something craze take over the world, startups get acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars, and entire offices get shut down in Hurricane Sandy.

Mari Sheibley, Foursquare’s first designer, is leaving the company after four years. She told TechCrunch she’s going to travel and then begin working on a few projects of her own. Sheibley’s departure doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with the negative press surrounding Foursquare’s troubled fundraise or slowed […]

[credit provider=””>Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider”] 2013 could be a comeback year for tech IPOs, for the simple reason of demand and supply.Stock markets are ruled by equal parts fear and greed.

Foursquare has been trying to turn itself into a real business over the past few months with a number of product launches and key new hires.

Foursquare just tweeted this image, a dramatic illustration of how seriously the lower chunk of Manhattan was affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Facebook might have found a way to get people to use a long-neglected feature: check-ins, where you announce to your friends where you are.

A few weeks we ago, at our Social Media ROI conference, we spoke about the convergence of social and mobile. 

A few choice nuggets in a Foursquare infographic on the election:

[credit provider=”Kevin Smith, Business Insider”] By far, the biggest complaint I’ve heard about the new iPhone iOS6 operating system is the decision to replace Google Maps with a proprietary Apple map system.The complaints were loudly trumpeted on the front page of “The Wall Street Journal.”

[credit provider=”iDoneThis”] iDoneThis is a simple productivity app to help keep your team focused and accountable to goals.Founded by Walter Chen, Rodrigo Guzman and Jae Kwon, it’s so effective that location check-in startup Foursquare uses it for its own day-to-day operations.

The move to mobile computing and the rise of social networking are the two defining trends in consumer computing over the last five years. 

[credit provider=”Robert Libetti/Business Insider”] Last week we visited Foursquare’s SoHo headquarters. It was by far the coolest startup office we’ve visited.It has everything from an amphitheater to shuffle board.

Good morning! Here’s the news:

Foursquare is one of the biggest mobile-first companies. Founded in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, it has been sitting pretty with more than $70 million in funding and a $600 million valuation.But the local check-in app has never been very focused on generating revenue — until now.

[credit provider=”Robert Libetti/Business Insider”] Foursquare is one of the biggest, buzziest startups in New York. The location check-in mobile app was founded in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai and it has raised more than $70 million to date.With 20 million users, 2.5 billion check-ins, and 5 million check-ins […]

Designer Michael Tseng was one of Kickstarter’s early success stories. In April 2011, he raised a few thousand dollars in a few days for a mobile game, Turf.Turf promised to combine elements of Sim City, Mario, Monopoly and Foursquare and become the ultimate virtual reality mobile game.

[credit provider=”Foursquare”] Foursquare has hired a senior director from Yahoo, Rob Wilk, as VP of Sales.Wilk’s task: help Foursquare make money.

The sharp declines in Facebook’s stock price since their IPO have lead to a frenzy of alarmed comment, some going as far to declare the company in a state of emergency. I’m not sure I agree.

The move to mobile computing and the rise of social networking are the two defining trends in consumer computing over the last five years. 

[credit provider=”foursquare.com” url=”https://foursquare.com/v/goldman-sachs/4b20f620f964a520a03524e3/photos”] Daily Intel’s Kevin Roose posted a bunch of Instagram photos last week taken by people within Wall Street banks.He tracked down the images using the popular photo sharing app’s location tagging feature.

[credit provider=”By _bubby_ on Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/_bubby_/6120437401/sizes/l/in/photostream/”] Following the footsteps of its social media brethren—Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr—Foursquare launched a pilot program today that tests paid ads for merchants called “Promoted Updates.” They will appear in the Explore tab. Approximately 20 advertisers (including The Gap, Hertz, J.C. Penney, and Best Buy) are participating […]

[credit provider=”Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider”] Today Foursquare is launching its version of search ads, Promoted Updates.Promoted Updates operate like Google’s promoted listings or Twitter’s promoted tweets. They are pay-per-action ad placements that only appear when a user is searching for a venue in Foursquare’s Explore tab.

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[credit provider=”Courtesy of Foursquare”] Foursquare has announced a new feature that allows local retailers to send updates to people who frequently check into their locations. Users have the option to disable the geo-targeting offers. The tool was tested by H&M, Outback Steakhouse, and various other merchants.Martina Scarfi has stepped down of […]

[credit provider=”Courtesy of Foursquare”] Last month, Foursquare completely redesigned its app and check-in experience for customers.Today it is extending the all-new Foursquare experience to its (nearly) 1 million merchants.

[credit provider=”Businessweek” url=”http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997001.htm”] Over the past couple years, a trend emerged in startups: startup investors began agreeing to buy stock from founders and CEOs – providing them with a rich pay day before their companies actually sold or IPO’d.Maybe this has been a mistake.

[credit provider=”World Economic Forum” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/5397056271/”] Sheryl Sandberg became the first woman to join Facebook’s Board of Directors yesterday.That was a big step, but there’s still lots of room for more women in Silicon Valley. These tech companies still don’t have a woman on the board:

Apple is about to give Yelp another boost.

[credit provider=”By TheTruthAbout… on flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetruthabout/4121026060/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] It’s hard to hire smart people, but if you ask the right questions it’s much easier to weed out the duds from the studs.Business Insider compiled the best questions and insights from Under 30 CEO, Mashable, and the Young Entrepreneur Council.

It’s Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley’s birthday. To celebrate, it looks like he’s getting serenaded by a mariachi band at the company’s headquarters. Alex Rainert, who runs product posted this photo to Instagram.

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Foursquare recently unveiled the “New Foursquare“, the latest version of its product. 

[credit provider=”Steve Kovach, Business Insider”] Think Foursquare is still just a “feature”?Think again.

Good morning! Here’s the news:

Foursquare has spent the past six months quietly working on a major redesign.

[credit provider=”Screenshot”] Foursquare has been teasing a revamp to its mobile app, and it looks like its going to shift from being centered on check-ins to centering on exploring your world. We have screenshots here.Foursquare is going to become Yelp 2.0. It’s a more social way to help people find […]

[credit provider=”Yodel Anecdotal/Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/2177806467/”] Good morning! Here’s the news: A new book claims that Google’s $5.8 billion offer for Groupon fell through because the breakup fee wasn’t high enough and Groupon believed it still had plenty of room to grow. Now that Scott Thompson is out of the picture, Yahoo […]

Foursquare is close to releasing a big update to its app, and its been teasing out what it will look like on Twitter.

[credit provider=”Morgan Missen via About.me” url=”http://about.me/mrgn”] When Morgan Missen moved to Silicon Valley in 2006, she ran into a problem.As a Michigan State graduate, she didn’t have an Ivy League degree; none of the big tech companies took her resume seriously.

A lot of change has come to Foursquare lately. Three of its executives have recently departed: Naveen Selvardurai (cofounder), Tristan Walker (Head of Biz Dev) and Morgan Missen (Head of Talent).

[credit provider=”Business Insider / Matthew Lynley”] Fred Wilson, speaking on stage at TechCrunch’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, said Foursquare “doesn’t have a ton of revenue yet.”Foursquare is considered one of New York’s hottest startups — but it doesn’t appear to be in the top echelon of revenue-generating companies […]

The days before and after Memorial Day are some of the busiest for travel all year long. Nearly everybody makes a getaway to see family or just head to the beach for a little rest and relaxation.

[credit provider=”Instagram” url=”Instagram.com”] When Naveen Selvadurai left Foursquare, the New York startup he cofounded with Dennis Crowley that lets you broadcast your location to your friends, everyone wondered what his next move would be.

As smartphone ownership rises, so does the use of location-based features, especially location-based information services and geo-social check-in apps. This is the main finding of a new Pew Internet study on location-based services.

[credit provider=”news reports and company releases”] It was always obvious that Foursquare’s business model would revolve around some sort of loyalty/couponing offers business for local merchants and consumers, but the exact contours have been fuzzy–as it should be for a company so young with such a new service. Now, however, the […]

Foursquare has announced its big, secret money-making plans: It will allow merchants to offer users coupons.

[credit provider=”Tantek via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/tantek/434810937/”] Foursquare is about to start trying to make big money.The plan: allow merchants to create coupons for the people who “check-in” to their business locations.

[credit provider=”Flickr / Brian Wilkins ” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianwilkins/4734788670/”] A week ago, Foursquare announced that it would begin charging local merchants $10 for a product called “instant verification.”This seemed strange to us, because while it may seems like it is always a good idea for a business to bring in new revenues, […]

Yes, we know. The check-in is dead. If the polls are accurate, most people don’t even know location apps exist. So we don’t have to care about Foursquare, right? Well, no. As of last month, the service had 20 million users, or about half an Instagram. It’s not for everybody, […]

Facebook is trying to make its Timeline profile pages more interactive by letting developers add customisable action links to posts that come from apps.

[credit provider=”Tristan Walker” url=”http://cl.ly/3n2W1G0m1c3u0d1f3E3g”] After 2.5 years at Foursquare, one of its earliest employees, Tristan Walker, is heading to the venture side.Here’s the farewell post on his blog:

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[credit provider=”Tantek via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/tantek/434810937/”] New York-based Foursquare has hired United Talent Agency to get Hollywood checking in.The move will hopefully get more celebrities and influencers using the service. It worked well for Twitter.

[credit provider=”Deloitte”] We recently had a chat with Holger Luedorf, Foursquare VP and head of business development.In our interview, he outlined the three main benefits that Foursquare offers businesses:

[credit provider=”Flickr / Brian Wilkins ” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianwilkins/4734788670/”] Social media app Foursquare decided to play around with last year’s check-in data to figure out which cities are teeming with Tax Day procrastinators. This isn’t a scientific study by any means but maybe it’s a taste of a new age in consumer surveying.