The Places application takes elements from the widely popular Foursquare and Yelp, which let mobile users check in at certain locations and update their whereabouts in real-time across social ...

Foursquare, Dennis Crowley's location-based mobile app, is breaking apart its core business into two separate mobile products: a social check-in app Swarm, and a venue-discovery app, Foursquare.

Fairmont Hotels is leveraging foursquare to send location-based promotions to customers who check-in at one of its locations. The strategy takes advantage of a new foursquare integration with the ...