Brightkite Concedes Check-Ins to Foursquare
Brightkite, one of the first players in the mobile check-in craze, has decided to abandon that business to the likes of Facebook and Foursquare. Instead, the company said Monday, that it would be focusing its attention toward group texting, a space also occupied by VC darling GroupMe and bootstrapped FastSociety.
Brightkite, which bills itself as a service for keeping tabs on what your friends are doing and discovering new places, introduced location-based check-ins for mobile phones in 2007.
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