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Foursquare To Charge For Database Access

Pursuing new revenue streams, Foursquare Labs plans to start charging some businesses for access to its database of local venues. The start-up is already “negotiating with the heaviest users of its data to pay fees or offer services in return,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “Deals will be reached on an ad-hoc basis with each developer and will affect under 1% of the 63,000 companies that use Foursquare's database.”
 

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