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NBC teams with Foursquare to track campaign stops
NBC News has teamed up with Foursquare for a project called “Campaign Check-ins.” Beginning in January, NBCPolitics.com will display check-ins from both President Obama’s campaign team and the Republican presidential candidates’ teams as they travel across the country. The interactive maps — designed by Method — will also display real-time check-ins from NBC News journalists embedded with the Republicans.
CBS Local among new ‘Save to Foursquare’ partners
Foursquare rolled out a new feature today than enables users to save their favorite restaurants, bars and other spots to their “To Do Lists” with the click of a button. Foursquare announced several publishers who are adding the “save” button on their sites, including CBS Local’s TV websites.
Inside look at Amazing Race’s use of Foursquare
CBS has unleashed a brand Foursquare page for the 10th season of the hit, award-winning reality show, The Amazing Race. The show lends itself perfectly to Foursquare’s new explore and list building features, since contests travel all round the world during the show. While there is no financial partnership yet between CBS and Foursquare around [...]
Inside NBC Philadelphia’s Foursquare efforts
A couple weeks ago, NBC 10 Philadelphia announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Foursquare where reporters check-in and post updates from news stories. Now, NBC 10 has posted a promotional video that goes behind the scenes with reporter Tim Furlong on a story. “I think when people watch local TV, they want to feel invested in [...]
Foursquare launches events, teams with ESPN
Foursquare announced yet another new feature today — users can now check into events, like football games, movies and concerts (but no TV shows, at least yet). The mobile app has partnered with ESPN to help power the sporting events calendar as well as provide news around the events themselves. Screen grab of a sporting [...]
NBC Philadelphia checks into Foursquare partnership
The NBC-owned station in Philadelphia has teamed up with Foursquare to bring local news reporting to the check-in service. While NBC 10 is already posting traditional Foursquare tips — “Crab fries, good eats and lots of TV” at Chickie’s & Pete’s — it will now have reporters post news updates at different locations in the [...]
Foursquare grew 3,400 percent, MTV tops brand pages
Foursquare released its growth figures from 2010 today in a huge infographic with lots of tasty data nuggets. The check-in service signed up its 6 millionth user last week and tallied a total of 381 million check-ins last year. The biggest event? The Rally to Restore Sanity with just over 30,000 check-ins. This Foursquare chart [...]
New TV series to feature Foursquare check-ins
The entertainment company Endemol has teamed up with Foursquare to develop a new TV series that will somehow incorporate check-ins into the show. Reports Variety: Endemol is still mulling an exact format for the Foursquare show — but the show seems likely to have an “Amazing Race”-style competitive element, in which participants travel to various [...]
CNN reveals a badge for political iReporters
I’ll admit it – I’m surprised at how well virtual badges do when it comes to encouraging people to use a service. I gave up stickers when I was 10. (Maybe 12. 14, for sure.) But I’m no curmudgeon on the topic; whatever works, works. And so the badge system, made popular by Foursquare, has [...]
CNN partners with Foursquare for ‘Heathy Eater’ badge
CNN has teamed up with Foursquare to promote a week-long series on healthy eating. Starting on Sunday, if you friend CNN on Foursquare and check in at one of 10,651 farmers markets across the globe, you’ll get a “Healthy Eater” badge. “We’ve seen time and time again how Foursquare can be used to drive people [...]
Foursquare preps new features, links coming?
Now that Facebook Places has launched, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley is getting bombarded by questions asking if he’s going to get, well, “crushed.” The answer (which is “no,” of course) reveals hints about upcoming Foursquare features, some of which are rolling out in a new app version in the next couple weeks. Reports Mashable: Crowley [...]
Why Foursquare and Gap needed digital signage
Foursquare ran an exciting promotion on Saturday. If you checked in at any Gap location via Foursquare, you received a 25% discount on your entire purchase. The offer was one of the largest to date open to all Foursquare users. Most discounts of that size, which are rare to begin with, have been for Mayors [...]
Foursquare stars in new History Channel commercial
With a cool $20 million in the bank, the team at Foursquare is flying high. Company CEO and Founder, Dennis Crowley, even found time to grab a plane to South Africa to catch some World Cup action. It’s probably easy to imagine how amazing this holiday weekend will be for the folks at Foursquare. Fresh Funding? Check. [...]
Foursquare nets $20 million in venture capital
Foursquare will have a lot more money to play with. The New York Times reports the location-based social network has raised an additional $20 million in venture capital money, adding big time to its previous $1.35 million funding. The company is now valued at almost $100 million. Among the new investors is Andreessen Horowitz, the [...]
