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.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Stupidly hot mobile startup Foursquare is taking all kinds of offers from brand name VCs and Silicon Valley behemoths looking to buy. We've been ...

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 ...

Facebook’s unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Facebook Places allows users to share their location ...

Who has more check-ins at Boston’s Logan Airport–Facebook Places, or Foursquare? How about at Cowboys Stadium in Texas, or Hotel Piazza di Spagna in Rome? How startup Foursquare is holding the ...

Foursquare has announced that check-ins shared on Facebook will now populate the Facebook Timeline map as well. Foursquare has announced that check-ins shared on Facebook will now populate the ...

Foursquare made a slight, but welcome, change to its Facebook integration today that will now offer “prettier” Facebook Wall posts regarding your activities. Instead of posts that just show a ...

Popular photo-sharing app Instagram is testing integration with Facebook Places, Facebook’s venue database. Facebook, of course, owns Instagram. The experiment signals that Instagram may eventually ...

Facebook is ramping up its location and local business features, posing threats to other companies such as Yelp and Foursquare. The new features on Facebook's iOS and Android app help people find ...

Foursquare has announced that it will expand recommendations to include suggestions made by users’ Facebook friends who have also signed up for the location-based discovery service. The move means ...

If you run any kind of brick-and-mortar operation and you're not using Foursquare, you might be missing out on one of the cheapest and most effective marketing solutions on the planet. In case you're ...

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 ...