Foursquare’s iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront

An app update for the social service continues the startup’s charge into “local discovery” territory.
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CEO Dennis Crowley on Foursquare’s Biggest Mistake

The social check-in startup founder talks about Foursquare’s past stumbles and future prospects.
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Discovery App Spindle Beefs Up Its Search Product

Spindle, the mobile-only discovery app that allows users to better find places of interest around them, pushed a significant update on Thursday, amping up the app’s search capabilities to a much larger degree. Users will now be able to continuously search for keywords, which will notify them if a place of interest nearby matches the term. The service is also launching in three new cities — Chicago, Austin and Seattle — in addition to existing cities San Francisco, Boston and New York.

Foursquare Opens Up Check-In Deals to More Kinds of Plastic

Put it on the card.
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Yandex Halts Development of Discovery App After Facebook Snips Data Access

Facebook hath spoken, and another social app is on hiatus because of it.
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Foursquare’s New App Is Open for Business

Foursquare launches a standalone application for local managers.
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With Graph Search, Facebook Needs to Go Beyond the “Like”

Facebook “Likes” this. But that’s not enough for good search results.
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Graph Search: Facebook’s Way of Keeping You Inside of Facebook (Video)

Facebook aims to be your own personal Internet, one search at a time.
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Path’s Personal Take on Social Discovery

A quaint take on finding the best places to visit.
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Facebook Pushes Into Crowded Territory — Again — With Local Discovery Update

Billboards, shmillboards. Facebook says, just look at your phone to find the next local place you want to eat.
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Instagram, You’re at War With Twitter. Just Admit It.

Analytics Outfit Socialbakers Scores $6 Million

Social Apps Are Late to the Windows 8 Party

With Spindle, Ex-Microsoft Engineers Rethink the Social Discovery App

Morgan Missen Departs Foursquare to Start Silicon Valley Talent Agency

To Combat Creepiness, WhosHere Launches In-App Video Chat