Foursquare Acquires Unfolded to Buttress Location Data
Foursquare today announced the acquisition of Unfolded for an undisclosed sum. This continues Foursquare’s assembly of its location intelligence platform, as well as ongoing M&A in the location data sector (more on that in a bit). Its previous big move in that sense was its landmark merger with Factual. Before getting into the strategic implications […]
YouTube Shorts Primes the Content Pump with a $100M Creator Fund
Social media and creator platforms are less about innovation and more about replication these days. TikTok begat Reels. And then it begat Spotlight, Or something along those lines. Now, now they’ve all begotten Shorts. That’s YouTube’s answer to the short form, vertically oriented video space. The big search and social platforms are in a perpetual […]