Microsoft invests millions in Foursquare, licenses data for future Windows Phone use

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Microsoft has just invested 15 million dollars into Foursquare, the location-based social network. Not only has it just invested a boatload of cash, but it also picked up a multi-year license contract to data. That data will become increasingly useful in Microsoft?s Bing platform and for Windows Phone. Is this the result of talks between the two companies that started last summer?

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