Microsoft is looking at making an investment of an unspecified amount in social-media maven Foursquare, according to a Bloomberg report.



From All About Microsoft:

Foursquare is a social-media company which enables users to check-in from various locations and post those check-ins on FaceBook, Twitter, and other apps and sites. In 2012, Microsoft announced that Bing was integrating Foursquare data via the Bing Sidebar.

Microsoft has made a variety of investments in various tech companies over the years, some of which worked out well and some not so well (at least so far). In the "well" category, Microsoft invested $240 million in FaceBook back in 2007. In the not-so-well: Microsoft invested $300 million with Barnes & Noble in its Nook Media spinoff.

  Microsoft may invest in social-media maven Foursquare: Report