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By Drew Grant 11/04/11 1:20pm

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Treat Yo Self!

Updated: FourSquare Allows New Yorkers to 'Treat Yo Self'

Updated below with a response from list founder Alisha M.

Foursquare, the social-networking app that allows you to “check in” to venues, become a mayor, meet up with your friends, and find out which Starbucks locations have been masturbated in, now has a new crowd-sourcing function. In the words of Parks and Recreation‘s Tom Haverford, it’s time to “Treat Yo Self!” Read More

By Ben Popper 6/20/11 9:48am

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Foursquare’s New Growth Strategy? Users who Don’t Check In

Ahhh lurkers, where would the internet be without them. While Foursquare has growing steadily, adding around one million users every month and half during 2011, co-founder Dennis Crowley say that to truly hit scale, Foursquare needs to find a way to offer value to users who don’t check in. Read More

By Ben Popper 6/17/11 9:16am

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Foursquare’s New Growth Strategy? Users who Don’t Check In

Ahhh lurkers, where would the internet be without them. While Foursquare has growing steadily, adding around one million users every month and half during 2011, co-founder Dennis Crowley say that to truly hit scale, Foursquare needs to find a way to offer value to users who don’t check in.

Speaking at the 92nd street Read Read More

By admin 1/24/11 4:50pm

Location Based

Foursquare's Growth Graphic Shows Global Reach

Foursquare grew an astonishing 3400 percent over the last year. 

The company released this amazing infographic to share some of the highlights. 

There were 381,576,305 check-ins all told, with the biggest single event being the 30,525 checkins at the Rally To Restore Sanity in D.C.

Perhaps most impressive was the range of locations Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/28/10 6:10pm

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Dennis Crowley Remembers Friendster

Remember Friendster, that proto-social network founded in 2002, before MySpace and Facebook and all the rest?

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley does. The New York entrepreneur who is now on what’s arguably the cutting edge of social media–location-based services–repeatedly referenced the social network O.G. in an interview with GigaOM about Foursquare’s strategy for making location Read More

By admin 12/23/10 3:22pm

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Foursquare Users Now Uploading One Photo Per Second

Foursquare gave its users an early christmas present this year, adding photos and comments to its mobile app for iPhone and now Android. 

According to founder Dennis Crowley, users are already uploading close to one photo every second, and that’s not even counting the Android users who will start taking photos today.

As Mark Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/08/10 11:11pm

Location Based

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Talks Numbers in Paris

TechCrunch reported today that Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley admitted the company once had an offer for “in the ballpark” of $140 million. Crowley later walked it back–but if true, the offer would have been more than 100 times the $1.35 million in seed funding Foursquare had raised at the time.

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By admin 12/07/10 6:17pm

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Foursquare Not Looking for a Profit Till 2012

Foursquare is enjoying phenomenal user growth and has inked a slew of new business partnerships with big name brands.

But at the D:Dive Into Mobile conference today, co-founder Dennis Crowley said Foursquare isn’t focused on revenue yet, or on new investment for that matter.

“We’re not raising money, though people have approached us. Read More

By admin 12/01/10 7:19pm

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Foursquare Hits 5 M. Users. Growth Strong But Flat

Foursquare just hit five million users, a great milestone that shows the company’s growth is not slowing down.

Unfortunately, it’s not speeding up either. It took a year for the company to reach one million users; three months to hit 2 million and a month and a half to hit 3 million.

Since Read More

By admin 11/29/10 7:55pm

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Crowley Tells Fox Biz That Foursquare is New Loyalty Card

True, location based services aren’t mainstream yet, but that didn’t stop Fox Business News from jumping on the Foursquare train. 

Founder Dennis Crowley appeared on the show today for an interview, and the fine folks at Fox asked him the hard questions about internet business.

Highlights include one Fox anchor choking on the question Read More

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