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Foursquare on Android updates with ‘proactive’ recommendations

Christopher Park

Christopher Park

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Foursquare is a popular app for users with friends who are constantly trying to one-up each other on check-ins and new discoveries.

According to Foursquare, the app has “two main interactions: one between you and your friends, and another between Foursquare and you.” After spending time collecting and analyzing data between the interactions of users, the company is rolling out “proactive” recommendations to Android users.

Foursquare on Android updates with ‘proactive’ recommendations

Using “over 4 billion check-ins” to improve location accuracy, the app will give recommendations through the use of background location data. Foursquare claims the internal tests on phones resulted in a drain of “about 0.7% per hour.”

The feature can be used to suggest different things like menu items at a restaurant or if in a new city, Foursquare will suggest places that friends have visited.

The staggered roll out is to thousands of Android users now and a complete update for all Android users in “coming months.”

iOS users will receive the update after the Android roll out, but Foursquare may be waiting for the launch of iOS 7 before committing to release the app.

Source: Foursquare

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