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New York, June 18 : An antisocial media website called 'Hell is Other People' promises to keep users away from their annoying online friends.

This series explores the role of data in everything from generating insights and conceiving new ways to connect with an audience, to measuring results.

Sunrise tries to keep ahead of new iOS Calendar features coming in iOS 7 by adding Foursquare, Crunchbase integration into its app.

If you don't have a partner to push you through your lifting routines - "One more set, bro, you got this!" - consider these eight social networks instead.

After all those years of griping about the slavish silliness of the check-in behavior that apps like Foursquare were trying to cultivate in us, for a second there I wished I had checked in more often over the years.

Okay world travelers, now it's time for some humble bragging, thanks to the new Foursquare Time Machine.

Foursquare investor Fred Wilson on Thursday acknowledged the social location company is still stuck with the perception that it's little more than a check-in service.

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Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare Labs Inc., speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2013 conference in New York, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2013.

Ever since two May survey reports showed Facebook use declining, marketers have been proclaiming the social network an endangered species.

It's been a tough year for Foursquare . Rumors of a difficult time raising funds, stalled growth and low revenue figures have all hit the press.

Google Is Close to Acquiring Waze, a Rival in Maps Google, which dominates the market for online maps, is close to a deal to acquire Waze, a largely Israeli company that has developed a social mapping service that is popular with drivers seeking to find the best route given actual traffic conditions.

Ice cream lovers and 'Game of Thrones' fans unite to compete in Foursquare's new 'Game of Cones' challenge.

Thursday is the worst day of the week, because by now you're exhausted and you don't yet have that gleeful "almost there" buzz of Friday, so all you can do is keep slogging on.

Amazon Plans Major Move into Grocery Business Amazon is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation.

I always like to listen to the dulcet tones of Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, especially when he talks about what's next for Yahoo.

Breakfast NY, a physical-digital interactive agency, has created a new smart object that it hopes people and brands alike will want to interact with.

Sunrise, the startup behind the acclaimed email service and iOS calendar app of the same name, has raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Resolute and NextView Ventures, with participation from well-known angels like Dave Morin, Loic Le Meur and Hunter Walk.

Foursquare , which recently began letting large advertisers like Burger King, Gap and Starwood Hotels promote themselves on the platform, is testing a program that lets small businesses do the same.