The company behind Girls Around Me, a controversial geo-location iPhone app, has voluntarily removed the application from the App Store. Girls Around Me allowed you to identify girls who have checked into venues near your location, based on publicly available data from Facebook and Foursquare.
Russian app maker i-Free Innovations removed the app from iTunes after heavy criticism about the app's intent and Foursquare's decision to cut off access to the check-in service's data, rendering the app useless, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company did not return PCWorld's request for comment.
