Foursquare began nudging social networks out of the virtual world and into the real one when it launched its “location-awareness” service roughly a year ago. On Wednesday, Facebook pushed real-world ...

Facebook places represent specific business locations. When a Facebook user visits a place of business, he can check in on a mobile device and tag any friends that are with him. The Facebook place for ...

Facebook’s unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Facebook Places allows users to share their location ...

Facebook places lets users on the social networking site keep their friend list apprised of where they're hanging out. If you're a business owner, add your business location to the places application ...

Facebook Places allows users to check-in to locations using a mobile phone, much like Foursquare, Gowalla, or Yelp. But up until recently the feature was only available in a handful of countries ...

Facebook finally introduces its location-discovery and location-sharing platform called "Places." Find out what it does, and what it means for third-party location-sharing services. Josh Lowensohn ...

Facebook jumped into the location-based check-in arena this week with the launch of Facebook Places. Facebook Places has the potential to dominate, but in its early form it is missing key elements it ...

One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing location-based check-in services. There may be some ...

With the launch of Facebook Places, users need to figure out if this service is a cool new tool or an overbearing feature best avoided. The social networking site’s new location-based feature , dubbed ...

Facebook is responding to privacy concerns raised by the ACLU with its new Places release that allows mobile users to broadcast their location to friends, and received qualified support in its efforts ...

Facebook's been launching lots of new products and making big changes to existing ones recently, and in conjunction the company has been moving around some of its high-profile employees to new roles.

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