How a relaunch saved Foursquare from certain death

Foursquare’s pivot may have saved the company, early adoption stats reveal. Back in May, Foursquare announced a startling new direction: a complicated plan to split itself into two separate services, with a namesake app for discovery and a new check-in app called “Swarm.” The news, of course, sent power users into a panic. But with spastic yet strong adoption, Swarm rose up the charts […]