Location check-in app Swarm will be its main focus beyond 2024, with the original app sunsetting in December.
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The folks at Microsoft Garage have launched a new app called Tossup, which wants to make getting together with friends easier and faster. The app allows you to poll people on meeting times and places.
Earlier this year, Microsoft invested in Foursquare and it looks like that partnership is now paying off as the data is being integrated into Cortana to serve up local recommendations.
Microsoft is investing $15 million into Foursquare, and Microsoft has also signed a multi-year deal with the location-based social networking service to use its data in products like Bing.
A new report is stating that Microsoft is looking to make a strategic investment in Foursquare, the popular application that allows you to document your travel by ‘checking in' to locations.
The official Foursquare Metro app for Windows 8 has been released in the Windows Store, allowing users of those PCs to let others know when they "check in" to a certain location.
Nokia has announced a number of new third party Windows Phone 8 apps , including Path, Flipboard and Oggl PRO, the latter of which will be released exclusively for the newly revealed Lumia 102
Microsoft has announced a number of new Windows 8 apps are now available to download such as Rhapsody, OpenTable and others, while an official Foursquare Windows 8 app is in the works.
The Windows Phone 8 version of the popular Fourquare app has received a major new update that adds some new features, including a new Modern user interface and more.
Nokia has announced that its Lumia smartphones will gain a number of Windows Phone-based apps made exclusively for those smartphones, including an official Foursquare app.
Location networking service FourSquare has been hit with lawsuits for infringing on two obscure U.S. Patents relating how GPS is used to share information.
Microsoft has announced that it has added tips and recommendations from the Foursquare social networking service, allowing users to find more information about various locations.
Reddit and many other major websites went down on Saturday afternoon and evening due to a bug that didn't take into account the "leap second" that was added to the world's clocks.
Microsoft has installed a Nokia gift machine for an advertising conference in Cannes this week that uses Foursquare to give attendees a random gift when they sign in.
Facebook is making waves once again with the launch of its location-based service Facebook Places. Along with the requisite privacy concerns that accompanies every Facebook announcement these days (the service is enabled by default), the...
Foursquare, the location-based social networking site, is in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo regarding potential search partnerships, according to a report in The Telegraph. Speaking to The Telegraph, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s co-founder, said that his...
Microsoft said on Thursday that it is updating Bing with several new UI enhancements and newly announced Foursquare integration. Bing has made several refinements to the user interface (UI). Microsoft has added a new "Bing Box"...
