Stripe, a payments provider for emerging startups, is exploring new types of currency transactions starting with bitcoin. It’s launched a bitcoin pilot among its customers, which it plans to expand into… Read more »
Microsoft will invest $15 million in Foursquare in a licensing deal that will also integrate features from the social network in Windows Mobile and Bing. The agreement could be a big… Read more »
Microsoft puts a stake in Foursquare’s future, offering the startup $15 million for access to location-award datasets and technology that could help Microsoft compete with Apple and Google in mobile. Read more »
The Pebble Steel start shipping today and the Pebble appstore is not far behind. I got an early look at using installing some third-party apps from my iPhone to my Pebble… Read more »
Maybe it’s not doing so bad after all: All Things D’s Kara Swisher reports that Fousquare has closed a $35 million Series D round, led by DFJ Growth and the Capital Group’s… Read more »
Good news for the iPhone-toting(s aapl) If This Then That lovers out there. The service has added a native iOS location tracking channel, which means you can make recipes based on… Read more »
A collection of Gigaoms’ readership and their views of the impact that Google+ had on its competitors. In most cases many felt that their was no impact but with Facebook and… Read more »
After raising $41 million in debt financing to produce a “smarter” Foursquare with a more robust ad platform, Foursquare has a casualty of its dramatic change: Head of Product Alex Rainert announced via… Read more »