In that sense, instead of building its own payments service Facebook could also partner with another payments provider and build out the loyalty piece, perhaps as a new version of the Check-in Deals.

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In a talk that was at times nostalgic, Crowley showed how Foursquare had evolved over the last 4 years from an app that looked to gamify check-in into a location layer that could allow the company to build predictive searches.

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Prior to Skillshare, Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at check-in service provider Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook to build its Places tool.

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