{"id":651918,"date":"2013-04-11T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=430905"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:20:34","slug":"looks-like-foursquare-isnt-the-future-of-smartphone-apps-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651918","title":{"rendered":"Looks like Foursquare isn\u2019t the future of smartphone apps after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/foursquare-revenue-analysis-2012-430905\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/foursquare.jpg?w=609&amp;h=412&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Foursquare Revenue Analysis\" title=\"Foursquare\" \/><\/a><\/center>A couple of years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/foursquare\">Foursquare<\/a> was widely viewed to be in the vanguard of smartphone apps. Check in at the Four Seasons Shanghai and post it on Twitter, compete with your friends to become the mayor of your local Irish pub, and so on. What could be more hip? Well&#8230; pretty much anything, including virtual beauty shops for fantasy creatures. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-04-11\/foursquare-gets-41-million-investment-time-to-grow\">A new expose by <em>Bloomberg Businessweek <\/em><\/a>drops a major bomb about how incredibly weak Foursquare&#8217;s revenue base is \u2014 only $2 million in sales in 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/betabeat.com\/2013\/04\/foursquare-dodges-a-potential-down-round-grabs-41m-in-loans-and-convertible-debt\/\"><em>Betabeat<\/em> notes<\/a> that despite its high media profile, Foursquare had only 8 million active monthly users at the end of 2012. In a fascinating turn of events, Foursquare was still able to tap into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-04-11\/foursquare-gets-41-million-investment-time-to-grow\">$41 million<\/a> in new loans and convertible debt this just month. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/foursquare-revenue-analysis-2012-430905\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/fXYZ8ud9ykY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, Foursquare was widely viewed to be in the vanguard of smartphone apps. Check in at the Four Seasons Shanghai and post it on Twitter, compete with your friends to become the mayor of your local Irish pub, and so on. What could be more hip? Well&#8230; pretty much anything, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}