Foursquare

To Combat Creepiness, WhosHere Launches In-App Video Chat

Mike Isaac in Social on May 23 at 3:35 pm PT

When you’re ready to take it to the next level — visual contact.

Bing Goes Sleek and More Social

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on May 15 at 3:43 pm PT

Microsoft’s revamped search engine shows promise — if users can adapt.

Bing Redesigns to Split Out Details and Social Into Their Own Panes

Liz Gannes in News on May 10 at 10:00 am PT

Microsoft today is changing up its Bing search interface to separate out a lot of the information it had previously packed directly into the core list of search results.

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Voices

Foursquare Joins the Coupon Craze

Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 9 at 5:00 am PT

Foursquare doesn’t want to be another popular — but unprofitable — social network. Its new plan to make money? Personalized coupons.

Start-Up Domo Goes 100 Percent More Social Starting Today

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 8 at 1:22 pm PT

Business intelligence start-up Domo Technologies is today requiring all of its employees to boost their involvement on social media platforms as part of a huge eight-week case study.

Four Reasons Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing $10 Million in Belly

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 4:30 am PT

Andreessen Horowitz has invested $10 million in Belly, a Chicago-based company that is building a loyalty network for retailers that will replace punch cards with mobile rewards.

HootSuite Adds Industrial-Strength Social Media for Corporate Teams

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 7 at 5:58 am PT

It used to be that the social media department at any given company was one person with a Twitter account. Now there are teams of dozens. HootSuite wants their business.

News Byte

Foursquare Rolls Out Searchable User History Pages

Mike Isaac in Social on May 4 at 2:11 pm PT

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s revamped timeline pages, Foursquare rolled out an expanded check-in history page on Friday. Users can now sort through their past locations visited via the Web interface, and can also filter the search history based on who they were with and the type of establishments visited.

News Byte

Facebook Expands Timeline App Vocabulary With “Action Links”

Mike Isaac in Social on May 2 at 4:53 pm PT

Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new set of Timeline actions that will allow users to carry out app-specific behaviors from within the Facebook News Feed, Ticker or Timeline. So, saving a favorite Foursquare place, “fave”-ing a Fab.com product or making other changes with the so-called “action links” will reflect on the apps outside of the Facebook environment. The move is one in a string of efforts to more fully integrate third-party apps into the Facebook ecosystem.

Voices

There’s a Robot in Your Pocket

Amit Kapur, CEO & co-founder, Gravity in Voices on May 2 at 2:38 pm PT

When I was a kid, I dreamed of someday having my own robot. Today, I’m very excited to see my dream come true because, in fact, there is a robot in each of our pockets.