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Facebook Places Boosts Foursquare Signups

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Foursquare probably expected this and thus agreed on collaborating with Facebook on the Facebook Places project. Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and also has the biggest mobile market share and that’s paying off for Foursquare too. Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tweetd earlier today that Foursquare set a new record of user […]

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Facebook Launches Location Service & Its iPhone App

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Facebook has officially launched its location based service called Facebook Places in collaboration with the current big players of the field, Foursquare and Gowalla. The service was unveiled in a press ceremony at the Facebook headquarters yesterday where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that they had been working on the project for the last 8 months […]

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Foursquare Blocked in China After Millions Check in to Tiananmen Square

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After a Facebook ban in Pakistan and Bangladesh, China has blocked access to another social networking tool ‘Foursquare’ after a huge number of users were checking in to Tiananmen Square on the site. It’s the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when more than 3000 protestors including students protesting against Communism were shot and […]

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Farmville and Foursquare Among Time Magazine’s 50 Worst Inventions

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Time magazine unveiled its list of 50 worst inventions in its latest issue calling them “some of the world’s bright ideas that just didn’t work out”. Among obvious turn offs like ‘Snuggies for dogs’, ‘spam email’ and ‘Auto tune’, the list also awarded the not so desirable title to immensely popular ‘Farmville’ by Zynga and […]

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