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 ...

Following Facebook’s announcement today about its new location-based product, Places, here’s what the ACLU of Northern California has to say on the privacy front: Facebook made some changes to its ...

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 ...

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 new Places feature lets you share your current location by “checking in” from your smartphone. Whether you never really got into earlier location-based social networking services like ...

It was the best of times for Facebook, it was the worst of times for local media, it was the age of Foursquare, it was the age of Places, it was the epoch of geo-location, it was the epoch of ...

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's Places feature debuted last night and I was able to try out the new service around San Francisco. Although not all users were able to access the feature yet, some users were able to try it ...

The Facebook Places app displays your location to friends and contacts on your Facebook friends list when you sign into a place or another Facebook user tags you at the location. Although the Facebook ...