Posts Tagged ‘Foursquare’

Foursquare Holds Off On Facebook Places Integration

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I love how companies “cooperate” in the tech industry. Twitter recently “helped” out TweetMeme by giving them another business to focus on. Facebook has now “helped” out Foursquare by making them wonder what’s next. They also welcomed the company up on stage to announce that they would … GASP … consider what to do with Facebook Places! Apparently Foursquare will eventually have Facebook integration, however right now they are working on their own product roadmap and don’t have the resources to integrate.
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Yes, Facebook Is Talking To Foursquare

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-Foursquare Logo-Recently we heard from sources close to Facebook that the company was in conversations with Foursquare about a potential acquisition and/or some form of partnership. Unfortunately the details have been slim but Kara Swisher is also hearing things as well. The most apparent thing about these conversations is that Facebook has yet to finalize their plans for location.
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Facebook Looks To Enable Foursquare, Gowalla, And Other Location Services

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-Map Icon-With Facebook integrating location based services into their platform in the coming months, many are wondering how the new service will be implemented. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that Facebook will definitely be enabling services like Foursquare and Gowalla, rather than competing with them directly. From the sound of things, Facebook’s implementation could be similar in some ways to Twitter’s new implementation.
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