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July 29, 2012 11:38 pm GMT

Olympic Check-Ins: Hot Foursquare Deals and Badges for London 2012




Location-based platform Foursquare -- which recently announced a slew of merchant tools -- is ready to take London by storm.

Though Foursquare was hindered from doing some things because of its partnership with American Express (the Olympics, as Morgan Freeman tells us, are proudly sponsored by Visa), the service will definitely have a presence on the ground.

"We have seen some more drastic growth in the UK, but it's hard to say what it is attributed to," says Omid Ashtari, Foursquare's director of business development for European markets. "We have had a great AmEx launch, some strategic partnerships and the redesign in the last few weeks, so there are many factors."

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