Is Google muscling in on Foursquare?

Checking in on an iPhone

The big G has quietly launched a leaderboard points system for check-ins on their Android Maps.

I‘ve just checked in to my local Marks & Spencer ‘Food Hall’ (not hard. It’s downstairs in the basement!) and it turns out I’m the mayor!

Well, not really. I’m not ‘the mayor’ because that’s a Foursquare concept, and I checked in on Google maps.

You didn’t know there’s a check-in app with Google maps?

Well, no, neither did I but apparently there Continue Reading