Foursquare chose to go the route of splitting its app in two, and so far this plan is not going down well with users of the traditional Foursquare app. The check-in aspect of Foursquare has been made ...

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Foursquare today announced it would be unbundling its location-based service into two separate mobile apps; one will be called Swarm, while the other retains the original Foursquare branding. The idea ...

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As we mentioned earlier this month, Foursquare plans to split its mobile app in half as it introduces a new app called Swarm that will soon be the only place to check-in to locations using ...

Foursquare is taking a page from Facebook and splitting its app in two. Soon the main app will be focused purely on search, reviews and finding places to get a decent meal. A second offering, Swarm, ...

Foursquare has released Swarm, a new smartphone app designed to replace the geolocation-based social aspects of the New York City start-up’s original service. Earlier this month, Foursquare announced ...

Ever since Foursquare split itself into two apps, it hasn’t been quite the same. That division, which spun the location check-in functionality off into a second app called “Swarm,” was indeed ...

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