Ellis Hamburger tests out the new Foursquare, which can help you find the best places to eat, drink, and hang out nearby. Foursquare 8.0 ditches check-ins but adds Tastes, a new way to to tell the apps recommendation engine about your favorite things. The next time you open the app, you might find that secret […]
Yet Foursquare hasn’t broken through to the masses, and it has just a fraction of Yelp’s 138 million monthly users. The check-in feature that Foursquare’s best known for has obscured its useful recommendations engine, so the company had to make a change. In early May, Foursquare offloaded check-ins to a new standalone app, Swarm, and […]
Microsoft invested $15 million in Foursquare earlier this year, and now the software maker is using the location data to improve its Cortana digital assistant. Windows Phone 8.1 users have started seeing prompts to add nearby suggested places into Cortana’s Notebook of features recently. The new feature simply surfaces nearby Foursquare locations that are popular, including […]
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