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Leveraging accurate location data unlocks powerful opportunities across your business. With precise, comprehensive, and fresh points-of-interest data, you can enrich your datasets for deeper insights, drive hyper-personalized user experiences, and make data-driven decisions. To empower our users, we continuously iterate on our methodology and leverage cutting-edge technology to ensure the most reliable and comprehensive POI […]

Get to know Rosalyn Ku, a software engineer playing a major role on our places ingestion team. Can you tell us a little about your role and responsibilities at Foursquare? I am a software engineer on the places ingestion team and I manage the crawl infrastructure. I work on automating various parts of our crawler […]

Foursquare has long held the mission of becoming the world’s leading independent location technology platform, helping top global companies harness location-aware solutions to create better customer experiences and drive smarter business decisions. It’s what led me to want to join forces with Foursquare last year under the Placed acquisition, as Placed’s CEO and founder, and […]

Foursquare is pleased to announce that Dennis Crowley and Gil Elbaz will be shifting roles to focus their attention as full-time members of the Board. Before you ask: No, Dennis and Gil aren’t leaving Foursquare. Both Dennis and Gil are shifting their current roles to focus on their Board of Directors work, where they serve […]

The map of the world is constantly changing as new businesses open and others shutter their doors. Often, business closures are difficult to capture via traditional methods of capturing point of interest (POI) data, leading to inaccuracies in the databases. To solve this challenge, the FSQ/Places Insights team is excited to introduce our improved Closed […]

They grow up so fast! On March 23, 2021, we launched the newest version of our Places API with an ambitious goal to redesign our already robust Venues API used by hundreds of thousands of companies and developers. After a year in the marketplace, the Places API has more than exceeded our expectations – and […]

Meet Aaron Guido. After transitioning from real estate to the tech industry, Aaron worked his way up from a sales development rep to an account executive on the commercial team, focusing on Foursquare’s enterprise products. On and off the clock, Aaron sees projects through from start to finish–for example, not only does he surf, but […]

I started one of Foursquare’s last company meetings of 2019 with the quote, “change is inevitable, growth is optional.” As we close out 2020, this quote couldn’t be truer for Foursquare. What is different from the start of the year is the declaration that “Foursquare chose growth.” Starting 2020, Foursquare had a strong tailwind with […]

Today, we announced an agreement to acquire Unfolded, a next generation platform for geospatial data unification, enrichment, visualization and analytics. I want to share what this acquisition means for Foursquare and for the location and geospatial developer community. Given the rapid advancements in cloud and edge computing, and combined with the co-mingling of physical and digital, Foursquare believes […]