Foursquare cofounder and executive chairman Dennis Crowley on how a SXSW phenom figured out how to matter without scaling up to a billion users, why he loves New York, and what’s next. On March 11, ...

Foursquare introduced a major redesign to its. Gone are the check ins and the old-school layout of days past. Foursquare 8.0 ushers in a whole new era for the local search app. It plans to take on ...

You could be forgiven for wondering whether Foursquare even still existed. The once hyped social media company had already fallen off many people's radars before its 2014 relaunch. That event failed ...

In 2010, when Ariela Ross seized the mayorship of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque on Foursquare—a smartphone app that allows users to broadcast their location to followers with a tap on the screen, known ...

Foursquare was once believed to be the next big social app. On storefronts, business owners featured a Foursquare logo, next to Facebook and Twitter. People flocked to it to learn what their friends ...

Ten years after the launch of Foursquare at SXSW, the company is laying its technology bare with a futuristic version of its old app that doesn’t require a check-in at all. The godfather of location ...

Foursquare has been making some moves. Yesterday at Mobile World Congress the social-local application announced it would be using predictive technology to suggest new places for its users to check ...

Foursquare is partnering with PepsiCo and Safeway to launch a pilot program which could serve as the future of the company’s business model–and as an answer to competitors Facebook Places and Gowalla.

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

Editor’s note: Jonathan Barouch is the founder and CEO of location-based startup Roamz, developer of social media business product Local Measure. Follow him on Twitter @jbarouch. Foursquare has become ...

More than a year ago, Foursquare decided to split its app in two. The main app was now focused on location discovery, while Swarm was created to handle the social check-in side of things. The reason?