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 ...

As expected, Facebook on Wednesday launched its new location-sharing feature called Places. Similar to other location-based services such as Gowalla and MyTown, it allows you to signal your presence ...

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 recently added a new feature that allows users to take advantage of location-based postings. So great—corporate brands are benefiting from the emphasis on location. But how can you use ...

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 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 ...

Another day, another compelling yet controversial Facebook feature. Wednesday evening, Facebook held a small press event to announce Places, its new feature that lets users “check in” to a location in ...

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 has introduced a new feature called Places and like everything Facebook seems to do lately it leaves us all feeling a little more paranoid and less secure than we did before. The thought of ...