Geo-location check-in service Foursquare is currently looking into hiring a data scientist. The company is looking for a scientist that has “experience with prediction or recommender systems, search and ranking algorithms, and classification algorithms.” Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley said back in September that they are working on building a recommendation engine.

Geo-location check-in service Foursquare has hit 5 million service confirmed CEO Dennis Crowley on-stage at the Le Web conference in Paris, France. These 5 million users check into venues about 2 million times per day. Around 25,000 new people are joining per day. Foursquare employs around 40 people compared to a year ago when they had 4 people. [TechCrunch]

Svpply is an e-commerce website that makes it easy to buy goods on the Internet. Svpply lets you search for accessories, apparel, shoes, gadgets, etc. Svpply has raised $550,000 in seed funding from Spark Capital, Founder Collective, Ron Conway, Dennis Crowley, and Jason Hirschhorn. Zach Klein, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, is also a co-founder in Svpply. Klein is working with Ben Pieratt, a designer that lives in Boston. [AllThingsD]

Earlier this week Facebook Places was announced. Facebook Places is check-in service that is similar to Foursquare and Gowalla. Rather than “killing the competition,” Facebook Places brought about awareness of geo-location services. Foursquare saw its biggest sign-up day after the Facebook Places announcement.

Facebook launched a new check-in service called Facebook Places. Facebook Places is very similar to Foursquare. Currently Facebook Places in not available in most regions, but it will be soon enough. For those of you that have access to Facebook Places right now, here is a tutorial on how to use it:

Check-in geolocation service Foursquare has grown at a rapid pace. The data collected by Foursquare is valuable because it harvests information about how often people visit a specific establishment. Now Foursquare has the interest of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! “Our data generates hugely interesting trends which would enrich search,” stated Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, who previously sold a company to Google.

Foursquare, the mobile check in service started by Dennis Crowley has raised $20 million in Series B funding at a $95 million pre-money valuation.

Metamarkets is a real-time data startup company that provides price data and analytics to global media companies.  The company launched in late 2009 and is working towards solving the problem behind ad price discovery on mobile and web platforms.  The company has raised $2.5 million from IA Ventures, Village Ventures, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Mike Maples, Stan Shuman, AOL Ventures, Josh Stylman, Jim Pallotta, Peter Hershberg, and Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley. IA Ventures led the round.