When Facebook launched its Places feature last year, which allowed users of the social network to announce their location to friends, Chris Cox, a top executive there, waxed rhapsodic about what it ...

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 ...

1. How would Places compete with Foursquare and other location-based services? The initial public reaction is that Facebook is competing with Foursquare and Gowalla, but this is not the case at all.

There’s an updated Facebook app available for BlackBerry which adds support for Facebook Places. In other words, you can check-in to locations using the Facebook app for BlackBerry. FaceBook Places ...

Marketers, specifically multi-location retailers and franchise organizations, were recently confronted with a new Facebook-marketing reality. What was once a relatively "top down" process of managing ...

Can They Maintain? Adrianne Jeffries at ReadWriteWeb echoes Siegler: "That likely means upwards of 18,000 people signed up for the location-based social network, probably buoyed by a glowing article ...

Facebook have announced that they will be integrating location-aware features into their social network. Facebook Places will hit as a new iPhone app for US users from Thursday, rolling out to all 500 ...

So Facebook just launched Facebook Places, a feature that lets you check-in to local spots, and even lets others check you into those spots without your knowledge or approval by default. We figured ...

Given MyTown is the location-based market leader 3.1 million users worldwide on board at the last count Booyah clearly has the most to lose following Facebook's move into the arena. That might be why, ...

Facebook has jumped into the location sharing pool with its new recently-announced “Places” feature. The feature is available from within the Facebook iPhone app or at touch.facebook.com from any ...