Foursquare vs Unsubscribe: Two CEOs duke it out over Twitter and YouTube

I hate unsubscribing from emails almost as much as I love the daily minutia of the lives of tech celebrities like Dennis Crowley. In a perfect storm, two startup founders go head to head. First, with a tweet, then with a Youtube. Here’s how it started: On Sunday night, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley tweeted out that he had unsubscribed from the popular email serviceUnsubscribe.com, which is a premium service that stops unwanted e-mail at the source....

2 min · 349 words · Molly Klein

Foursquare wins the Superbowl with over 200,000 check-ins

Foursquarejust posteda set of impressive Superbowl XLV related stats. Last Sunday, Foursquare posted over 200,000 Super Bowl Sunday check-ins from parties around the world. In four hours it became Foursquare’s most checked into venue ever and the largest online check-in event of all time. And just like in real life, the Packers won. Packers fans outnumbered their Steelers counterparts. In fact, at no minute during the game was Steeler Nation stronger....

2 min · 257 words · Christopher Sims

Foursquare, now works on all Nokia Series 40 phones

Foursquareposted on itsblogtoday that the popular check-in service would be available on the phones using the Nokia S40 operating system. The Nokia Beta Labs team have built it using the Foursquare API. It’s a full-featured Foursquare app. Including all the well know features such as; check-ins, shouts, venue discovery and friend info. The Nokia Beta Labs team are still developing the product so there will be more additions and changes coming soon....

2 min · 238 words · Rachel Sandoval

Fowndr: A place for startup founders to connect, share files and discuss ideas

There’s no shortage of places online for people to connect with each other and share ideas, micro-blogging service Twitter facilitates millions of one-on-one connections every day. However, there aren’t many websites that connect entrepreneurs with sole intention of sharing files and discussing ideas. New UK startupFowndraims to provide just this – a safe place for entrepreneurs to connect with each other, share ideas and thoughts, ask questions and post files. Launching invite-only, content is focused around startups and business, ensuring that members joining are trusted by those already present on the network....

4 min · 645 words · Paula Vance

Foxconn chief: iPads would be more profitable if they weren’t so hard to make

Foxconn, a subsidiary of the Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, is being forced to find more efficient means of manufacturing Apple devices if it is to increase profit and increase its annual sales growth forecast,says company chairman Terry Gou. Despite Apple’s extraordinary revenues over the past year, Foxconn has found it difficult to increase profit gains due to the fact that Apple devices are “very difficult to make”. The company has posted two quarters of declining profit due to paying staff higher wages and incurring costs for moving factories to inland China....

2 min · 279 words · Pam Johnson
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