Tag: FourSquare
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Gowalla To Go The Way Of The Dodo
Gowalla is to be shutdown. After being acquired by Facebook the “also ran” to FourSquare will be shutting down early in 2012, according to Techcrunch. So while Facebook may have acquired the skills and experience of the FourSquare team, they’re not taking over all the data. So will Facebook use some of the technology to…
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla
Facebook has acquired Gowalla according to reports. Gowalla, which offers very similar functionality to FourSquare, never quite seemed to be as popular as its rival. Facebook had been offering a location based service for its mobile users, but they were reportedly going to be phasing it out, but with the addition of Gowalla that will…