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Groupon is by far the biggest daily deals company around. The emerging space it occupies is already crowded with carbon copies, though, so how are the successful ones going to stand out from...
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Foursquare announced today via its blog that that last week, its app reached one billion checkins.
To celebrate, the startup put together a video:
Because we’re data nerds, we put...
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Today Yellow Pages Group (YPG) announced an agreement with location-based social networking startup Foursquare to participate in their "venue harmonization project" - a project to improve the...
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Some businesses are having big successes by marketing themselves on geo-social apps like Foursquare. Others... not so much. Why is that? Why do some fail while others succeed?
That was the subject...
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Astronaut earns Foursquare badge in space
Anybody for mayor status in outer space?
A NASA astronaut used Foursquare last week to check in outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Douglas Wheelock,...
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Montréal startup Foursquare Mobs is a supplement to the popular location-based mobile app, Foursquare. It allows you to connect directly with other Foursquare users to plan an event, or...
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Maybe the National Hockey League saw the success that Jonathan Sinden was having with Foursquare and other social media tools. Jonathan is in charge of all things social media for the Maple...
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Look at your list of Facebook friends or Twitter followers. Find one you've never met in real life (and I'm sure there are plenty). Now, track down their number through a phone book or whatever you...
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August 20, 2010. Day 2, Inspire: The GROW Conference will provide inspiration for turning today's entrepreneurs into tomorrow's leaders. Speakers include founders of...
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A couple weeks ago, we took a look at how Foursquare is increasing social capital and spoke to the company directly to understand their thoughts as they evolve into an emerging...
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Is location-based monitoring via mobile devices really the next big thing? One could argue that the concept has already proven its appeal with 12,000 new users being added to the relatively novel...
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Foursquare, the popular location-based social network, has just signed big-time deals with several major media companies.
Foursquare has previously formed successful partnerships with Canadian...
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The Vancouver Sun is reporting that there has been an arrest made in an August sexual assault. The assault was facilitated by the mobile software Grindr an application that allows gay and...
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If you haven't used or even heard of the mobile location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla then you are in the minority. Such services, in case you don't know yet, are used to tell the...
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On Wednesday, February 4th, Scott Stratten (@Unmarketing) presented to a jam-packed Refresh Events session as part of Social Media Week in Toronto (#SMWTO). At Function 13, Scott gave a passionate...
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Earlier today Canadian free daily newspaper Metro News unveiled a content partnership with mobile check-in game Foursquare.
As part of the partnership, Metro will add their location-specific...
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Foursquare, the popular mobile application that lets users check-in with the service on where they are in the real world, just announced today a partnership with Pepsi for foursquare New York. When...
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Foursquare announced today on their blog that they have added another round of cities to their service. This time around they've added 15 including two more in Canada to join Vancouver - Montreal...
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Like any curious eight year old, when something gets popular I like to play with it, poke holes in it and see how it works.
Foursquare launched in Vancouver a few weeks ago. So I wanted to...
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6s Marketing President Chris Briekss spent a little time with Techvibes yesterday to give us the skinny on Foursquare, the social media/gaming phenomenon that arrived in Vancouver last night at the...
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As you're probably aware, if you're following Vancouver Twitter users, Foursquare launched in Vancouver today. We wanted to give some tips on etiquette to all you Foursquare virgins, we don't want...
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The rumors are true, Foursquare is coming to Vancouver. Specifically, the mobile app that took the US by storm is set to drop on Raincity on September 9th at V Lounge in Yaletown (thanks in no...
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