Today,Foursquarerevamped itsFoursquare For Businesspage, complete with tools for merchants, venues and brands. The new pages include guided walkthroughs of how to set up a business using Foursquare, as opposed to the metrics that they provided before. Foursquare’s tools are meant to help businesses owners attract new customers and maintain loyalty. Specials create extra enticement to get customers to stop by – think 20% off a meal, a free dessert, or even a reserved parking spot for your most loyal customers....

Foursquarehas been all over promotions and marketing campaigns at this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas. For the interactive portion of the conference, the startuppartnered with Big Boi, giving fans a chance to win free concert tickets. For the upcomingSXSW Musicconference, taking place on March 16th-20th, Foursquare has teamed up withRCRD LBL, a sweet website that serves up daily free music downloads, to give music fans a leg up in the musical mayhem....

It looks likeFoursquareis planning to expand its staffing beyond US shores. In an interview withThe Telegraph, the company’s co-founder and CEO, Dennis Crowley says that plans are afoot for a UK office. Following on from the New York-based company’sexpansion to San Francisco, a UK office is planned for “some point during the next year”, although Crowley doesn’t give any further details. It’s a fair bet that,similarly to Twitter, Foursquare would hire staff to liaise with businesses in Europe, expanding its capacity to handle commercial partnerships of the kind that it’s already involved with in the States....

AsFoursquaremoves beyond checkins and points towards something that offers more long-term value to both users and brands, it appears that a revamp of the service’sPagesfeature is on the way this week. At present, Pages are available to brands, allowing users to ‘follow’ their favourite companies, seeing Tips they leave at locations around the world.According to AdAge, Pages are set to be expanded so that anyone, from a brand to an individual user can create their own page for others to follow....

Location-based social network Foursquare is to continue pushing its service in Asian markets,announcingit is to launch a localised application for South Korean users next month with the intention of developing partnerships with businesses in the country. Attending a technology forum in Seoul, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai said that the company’s intention is to get more users, but to do so he notes that the company needs to make applications “easier to use [and] easier to sign up”....