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Report: Giphy Lowered Its Value Ahead of Facebook Buyout to Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny
Facebook again weaselled around antitrust scrutiny in its $US400 ($555) million Giphy acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report citing two sources with knowledge of the matter. If history is any indicator, Facebook can and will do whatever it wants.
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Report: Twitter’s Teaming Up With Foursquare To Improve Location Data
Business Insider is reporting that Twitter is planning to team up with Foursquare in 2015, “adding a location layer to its platform” to make it more relevant and interesting for users.
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What Would A City Based On Your Foursquare Data Look Like?
Most cities evolved based on centuries of complex economic and cultural forces. But what would it look like if that process were reversed? That’s the concept behind Generating Utopia, a program that turns a user’s location-based data into a sprawling, Rio de Janeiro-style cityscape.
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Your Year In Foursquare Checkins, Visualised
Foursquare just launched a neat new tool that allows you to view the last year of your life in Foursquare check-ins. Don’t worry! It’s more than a depressingly reductive view of your life as the summation of activities on a social network. It’s actually really cool.