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Foursquare app running on a Pebble Steel smartwatch. Foursquare uses proprietary technology, Pilgrim, to detect a user's location. When users opt in to always-on location sharing, Pilgrim determines a user's current location by comparing historical check-in data with the user's current GPS signal, cell tower triangulation, cellular signal strength and surrounding wifi signals.
Foursquare Labs Inc., commonly known as Foursquare, is a geolocation technology company and data cloud platform based in the United States. Founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in 2009, the company rose to prominence with the launch of its local search-and-discovery mobile app.
Location and check-in data collected in Swarm are used to improve a user's recommendations in Foursquare City Guide. Splitting check-ins and general location sharing into the separate Swarm app was designed to let the main Foursquare app focus on exploring and discovering information on locations in a Yelp-like fashion. [5]
In 2009, Selvadurai co-founded Foursquare with Dennis Crowley. It is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby. [14]
[4] [7] After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, [8] [9] Crowley found work at a company called Area/Code where he met Naveen Selvadurai and co-founded Foursquare in 2009. [ 2 ] [ 10 ] Foursquare, known for its location intelligence offerings for both enterprises and consumers, is used by more than 50 million people every month. [ 11 ]
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In the past, Jiepang was highly similar to Foursquare and was frequently called the Foursquare of China. [2] [3] [4] But the redesign of Jiepang 5.0 pivots the app away from that reference. [5] [6] [7] The service was created in 2010 by David Liu (刘大卫), and is available in simplified and traditional Chinese characters as well as English ...