At Build 2013, it was announced that Foursquare has developed a native tablet app for Windows 8 tablets. This is the company's first native tablet app. Several big-name apps are coming to the platform too, as Windows Store nears 100,000 apps.

Foursquare, the app previously known as a location-based social network, has been shifting its emphasis over its last few iterations to a local social search engine for good picks. While you used to have to be a member to use Foursquare, the company has now opened up its search engine to anyone who wants to look for good food, shopping or sights and sound.

Did you come across any websites that were down on Sunday morning? An additional second added to atomic clocks was the cause of certain websites suffering an outage.

Dedicated applications for Facebook, foursquare, Skype, and Twitter to PS Vita will be introduced.

So you want to know what it's like to be the US President Obama with all that jet-setting to all kinds of locations? Now you can, but only via Foursquare.

Social Media news site Mashable makes an educated prediction that location based gaming will be the next "killer app" to distract us even more.

Love it or loathe it, Foursquare seems determined to stay now that it's passed the 1 million users mark. It's also expected to announce a funding deal soon that should keep it running for a good long time to come.

Sources close to Foursquare and Yahoo revealed that Yahoo is considering buying the location-based startup for US$100 million.

Popular location-based social networking app Foursquare has just aired their first commercial.