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Facebook Places Crushes Foursquare As Facebook Takes Down Google

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter, social media marketing

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing the so called pros in the arena like Foursquare and Gowalla.

That’s what Financial Times points out in their official blog. The [...]

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$20 Billion: The Potential Value of Location Based Services Market

$20 Billion: The Potential Value of Location Based Services Market

by Sahil Shah on 01. Jun, 2010 in Infographic

This simple question does not any longer have a simple answer and in fact rather very important implications. Depending on where you are, several businesses and services want to reach you and advertise to you. Today’s fast paced technology has made it possible to ‘Geo-target’ you and let local services reach you.
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Facebook to add Location Based Check-Ins this Month

Facebook to add Location Based Check-Ins this Month

by Sahil Shah on 07. May, 2010 in Facebook

News has it that Facebook is working on integrating a location based check-in feature where a user can update his/her status with. As the Business Insider quotes it, this new location based feature could be up and running anytime soon. Some questions as well predictions coming up in my mind right now. Let me detail [...]

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