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.

In an interview with The Telegraph on Monday, Dennis Crowley, chief executive of location-based service Foursquare, called Facebook's new location tool, Facebook Places, "boring." "I have now had a ...

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 ...

Facebook's new location-based service won't kill Foursquare, no matter what Kara Swisher at the Wall Street Journal says. Of all the Foursquare-is-dead rants, the most substantive argument is via ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. We checked in today with Foursquare, which has rolled out a new version ...

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 ...

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 ...