This morning Google officially announced their Google Places application for iPhone and after playing with it for a bit, it appears as though the company just stole Yelp’s business, something that’s much cheaper than acquiring them.
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Is a coupon worth your privacy? That may be the dilemma facing Facebook users excited to redeem special deals through an expansion of the site’s Places feature.
If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, then Foursquare must be really, really flattered. First came Gowalla and then Facebook Places to replicate the app that lets you “check in” and share your location with friends. Now the ‘Foursquare of the Future’ has emerged. It’s called Foound and it seems sure to steer the location-based social network craze in a new direction.
