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Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm

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 in an update.

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 in . The shutdown is a notable reversal of a strategy the company announced a decade ago when it, controversially, opted to split its famed “check-in” service into a separate app. “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” he wrote.

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