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Foursquare Teams Up With Daily Deal Sites

The social media site will partner with daily deal sites like LivingSocial to offer deals.
Posted on July 14, 2011 by Elizabeth Sile
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Photo courtesy of foursquare.
Photo courtesy of foursquare.

For Foursquare users, the site’s “Specials” just got better. The company announced Tuesday it would expand its “foursquare Specials” to now include “Deals” from LivingSocial, Gilt City, zozi, BuyWithMe and AT&T Interactive. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the site is also negotiating an arrangement with Groupon.

Features of the deals include personalized recommendations based on where users and their friends have checked in through the “Explore” tab of the site, as well as simple purchasing that allows customers to buy deals without leaving the application.

Foursquare hopes the deal will not only prove popular with its 10 million users, but it will turn around necessary revenue. Unlike its Specials, foursquare will take a cut of the revenues made by its partners through the Deals.

Read more at The Wall Street Journal and on foursquare’s blog.

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  • dLook

    I thought the original idea of Foursquare was cool, but adding short term deals will eventually put the loyal Foursquarers off

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