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Foursquare Teams Up With GrubHub To Offer Takeout

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Mark Melin
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Users of Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking website for smartphones, will soon be able to order takeout from thousand of restaurants directly through the Foursquare application.

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Foursquare is teaming up with Grubhub / Seamless, a web site for ordering takeout food, to roll out the application. Foursquare is an application where users “check in” at various venues and inform people in their network of their location and can view nearby venues through the GPS application.

Ordering food when "checking in"

Users can search for a restaurant through the Foursquare application and the GPS application inside the mobile phone will serve up participating restaurants. Under the new partnership, an icon will appear at...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.