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...Christine Lu, the digital strategy advisor for the national burger chain Fatburger, pushed stores to give secret menu deals to users who flash proof that they've checked in via Foursquare. "The challenge with any social-networking site is the single mom working in an office - what's in it for them?" Lu says. "If you can translate it into the mentality that this is saving you money, who wouldn't want...
...Partnerships like these are currently free for businesses; Crowley says Foursquare is still trying to figure out how to make rewards even more useful for its members. While Foursquare isn't under any immediate pressure to make money - the site received $1.4 million in an August round of funding - its partnerships with businesses provide at least a hint of the way it plans to turn its traffic into a revenue stream. And in an online world crowded with Next Big Things still struggling to turn a buck, that may be the most revelatory thing about Foursquare...
...second approach, he said, is the establishment of facilities in Port-au-Prince to bolster emergency treatment and to identify the patients who require more advanced surgery and must be transported to the Plateau. On Thursday night, PIH posted a lengthy list of immediate needs on its Web site, citing concerns related to transportation and supplies...
...other Ivy League schools, policies on transfer admissions run the gamut: Yale boasts a 2 to 4 percent transfer acceptance rate and accepts 18 to 35 transfer students each year, according to its Web site, and Cornell welcomed 569 transfer students in the fall of 2009. Princeton is the only Ivy League school which does not currently have a program of transfer admissions...
...intelligence officials said a Jan. 9 missile strike in the North Waziristan tribal region killed Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim. The FBI's Web site lists him as a Palestinian with possible Lebanese citizenship. The Pakistani officials called him an al-Qaida member, but the FBI site says he was a member of the Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist group...