If you’re an American Express customer, soon your Foursquare check-ins could unlock not only points and badges but cold, hard cash deposited straight into your AmEx account. Some American Express card holders are already getting cash back when they check in at selected locations around New York City, and so far it’s been a success [...]

Well, I have to give Vital’s Brian DeKoning credit. He has been pushing Foursquare for some time now and I resisted. Seeing the tremendous benefits for businesses, I was convinced it would become an annoying feature of some other social media powerhouse like Facebook before hitting the mainstream. Boy was I wrong. Friday 4.16.10, (get [...]