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'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 ...

When Facebook launched Places, a feature that lets users "check-in" to Facebook to let their friends know where they are, in August many saw it as a direct shot at Foursquare. People wondered how the ...

Thus far, the new Facebook app only offers members the ability to share their exact geographic location with friends and family on their contact list -- or with the whole Internet -- at any given ...

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 ...

“This is gonna be a really fun, interesting summer,” Mark Zuckerberg noted a few minutes ago from a live, streaming press conference. He was not talking about the lead-up to The Social Network, the ...

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 ...

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 CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places. "This is going to be a really fun and interesting ...