Turntable.fm, an online music service, caught on this summer as a way to share and discover music online. On Wednesday the New York-based company announced that it has raised $7 million dollars in a founding round led by Union Square Ventures. The company announced that it also released a version of its product for the iPhone. READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session three: Entertain Us. READ MORE
Yesterday Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams took the TechCrunch Disrupt stage to say Gowalla is dead, long live the new Gowalla. The company, whose iOS and Android apps have allowed checkins since 2009, has ceded that space to Foursquare. And, as Williams told me in an interview after his appearance, his team was never really interested in owning that space. READ MORE
According to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 55 percent of smartphone owners use their devices for some sort of location services. But before you rush to proclaim this the Era of Foursquare, keep this in mind: the study’s definition of “location services” is pretty loose, says ReadWriteWeb’s John Paul Titlow. READ MORE
To meet the global demand for Foursquare, the location-based social network is adding five new languages to its app. READ MORE
Having customers check in at a location via Foursquare or some other such service is so 2010. That’s the message from start-ups DailyGobble and RewardLoop, both of which use customer receipts rather than check-ins to give diners or shoppers rewards. READ MORE
Ashton Kutcher can breathe a sigh of relief: the tech-savvy celebrity will not face an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. READ MORE
Foursquare, the mobile check-in application, is adding event check-ins for movies, concerts, and sporting events. Now, a sports fans checking in at Yankee Stadium will also post information about what game he or she is at. If Foursquare could only add virtual heckling capabilities for when the Red Sox are in town, then we’d be talking. The company has partnered with ESPN, Movietickets.com, and Songkick for event information. READ MORE
We’ve all heard stories about the friend or uncle or co-worker who could have invested in, say, Apple long before the company hit big–the sad tales of missed opportunity and phantom millions. What’s it like, though, for the angel investors and venture capitalists who have the same would-have-could-have-should-have regrets about some of the most recognizable start-ups in the tech universe? Business Insider decided to ask eleven otherwise successful investors all about it. READ MORE
NBC 10 Philadelphia has announced a partnership with Foursquare, the location-based social media social network. The news station will use the technology to provide up-to-the-minute coverage of local news, the station says. READ MORE
