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It’s the end of an era for one of the App Store’s earliest success stories. Foursquare is shutting down its signature city guide app in order to “focus our efforts on building an even better experience in Swarm,” the company said inits famed “check-in” service into a separate app. That app became known as Swarm while the Foursquare-branded app became a “Now, Foursquare says its future is, once again, the check-in.
It’s not clear why the company is changing its strategy to elevate Swarm over its namesake app. The companymore than 100 employees earlier this year in an effort to “streamline” operations. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who is currently co-chair of the company’s board of directors, said in a postthat the company is “doing fine,” though he expressed disappointment with the news.
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