In what The Wall Street Journal calls “extreme shift” in policy, Foursquare’s new app tracks the movement of users whether or not it is open on their mobile devices. “Tracking user whereabouts could arm Foursquare with more valuable data it can sell to partners and advertisers as it searches for new streams of revenue,” WSJ reports. “But this type of persistent location tracking could scare off users who are growing increasingly wary of threats to their mobile privacy.” 

Without calling Foursquare’s new personalized recommendation product a success, The Verge says it has a ton of potential. “After spending the better part of the last year rebuilding its app from scratch … Foursquare is finally ready to start telling a new story, starting at chapter one,” it writes. “That new story revolves around personalized recommendations -- something [Foursquare founder Dennis] Crowley says Yelp can’t do.” 

In a down market for tablet computers, Microsoft’s Surface devices are having an especially hard time. As Computerworld reports, losses in the just-end 2014 fiscal year contributed to total losses to $1.7 billion since Surface’s splashy debut, in 2012. “Calculations by Computerworld show that the Surface's cost of revenue for the June quarter was $772 million,” it writes. “With revenue of $409 million, that put the tablet in the red to the tune of $363 million.”