Foursquare – the location based social networking website that currently allows over 15 million users to “check-in” around the world at venues on their mobile phones – has moved into a huge new office space in New York City, USA.

The company (which launched in 2009) now employs over 100 people and they’ve decked out their two-floor, 56,000ft office with everything cool a young company should have.

From idea walls and mystery meeting rooms to cafeterias and a prized shuffleboard table…
If you’re looking for a new job, take a look at these pics and lick your lips!

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The 2011 Stereosonic Music Festival brought some of the world’s premier DJs and dance artists to Australia in December, headlined by Empire of the Sun, Armin Van Buuren, PNAU, LMFAO, The Bloody Beetroots and Carl Cox.

Sold out around the country, the dance festival kicked off summer with a bang and fired up music’s silly season in Melbourne. Held at The Showgrounds under a blazing sun, the fun began for Southern Cross Shuffleboards a week earlier, when we received an invitation to install one of our shuffleboard tables backstage in the VIP Artists Area…

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We recently found out that super popular American news website Mashable is a huge fan of shuffleboard – so much so that the social media experts continually feature table shuffleboard in the annual Mashable Geek Games held every year during the South by Southwest (SXSW) festivals in Texas, USA…

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New research issued this week at the Great British Beer Festival by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale suggests the return of traditional pub games like Shuffleboard, Billiards, Skittles and Darts would encourage more young adults to visit pubs at a time when 25 pubs across Britain are closing every week and similar statistics around the world…

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Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister (and first female Prime Minister) of Australia on 24 June 2010. Arguably the busiest woman in the country, Ms Gillard still had time for a little table shuffleboard play when she visited Queensland late 2010… Good style!

Robocop, Transformers, R2D2, Bender, The Terminator and now S.H.U.F.F.L.E.B.O.T!

Robots aren’t taking over the world just yet, but they did begin taking over our shuffleboard tables last week, when a group of Oregon State University students showcased some shuffleboard playing robots at a technology exhibition in the USA.

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Southern Cross Shuffleboards has scored some awesome editorial in the new issue of Pop Magazine, Australia’s premier free-press action sports mag. Similar to Blisss in America, it covers skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing news along with interviews and a lifestyle section covering music, cars, technology, fashion, films and opinion pieces from around the world.

Pop Mag’s “2011 Outerwear Issue” – which features Berrics co-owner Steve Berra on the cover – includes editorial on film-maker Kai Neville, TSC founder Jarrod Wouters, model Erin McNaught, tablets and electronics, and a full-page feature piece on Shuffleboard.

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Reality TV changed our world in the 1990s and Survivor was one of the main catalysts, isolating a bunch of random dudes and good-looking chicks on a tropical island to complete challenges for themselves and their tribes all in the name of cash and other prizes.

The world’s most exotic reality TV show has thrown a lot at its contestants over the years, dishing up challenges of endurance, strength, agility, speed, problem solving, teamwork, dexterity, willpower and, er, table shuffleboard…

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Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest and most famous athlete in the history of sport and hence the city of Chicago, where he dominated the Bulls basketball court for most of his career, is almost as well known across the globe.

Southern Cross Shuffleboards is a huge supporter of basketball and big fan of the Chicago Bulls (including this year’s MVP, guard Derrick Rose), but we are most impressed right now to hear that the Windy City has a thriving shuffleboard scene!

Check out these five hot-spots for playing table shuffleboard in Chicago…

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Celebrity chef Shannon Bennett & friend get their shuffle on.

Where did you spend your Easter Holidays? Southern Cross Shuffleboards spent the week in the VIP Bar of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, celebrating the event’s 50-year anniversary with the world’s best surfers and celebrities alike…

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