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 ...

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 ...

Pressed to respond to the rising popularity of online services that let people broadcast their location, Facebook mostly hit the right notes with the initial design of Places, although it’s too early ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're using a BlackBerry device and have some evelovin Facebook working on there, you should be receiving a notice to upgrade to Facebook for BlackBerry v1.9 – this version also available in ...

Facebook is ending its anemic mobile "Places" check-in feature a year after it was introduced. "Places" never seemed to find a place in mobile users' lives. The social network started the program ...

Fast Company took a trip to Gap today not just to update our cache of relaxed fit chinos but “check in” on how the company’s Facebook partnership was panning out. This week, the retailer took ...

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.