Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook’s Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps. Built by Josh Williams ...

As of today, you can count Facebook as a potentially significant new competitor in local search — on mobile devices. The company is updating the “Nearby” feature in its iOS and Android apps Previously ...

Goodbye Facebook Nearby, hello Facebook Local Search. InsideFacebook points out that the company has renamed its mobile app feature “Nearby” as Facebook “local search.” Until late last year, Nearby ...

Facebook Nearby Friends is based around broadcasting how far you are from friends, not your exact coordinates, and that’s why it could succeed where other location apps have failed. But while we might ...

Facebook has updated its Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps helping to make it easier for you to find new places based on what your friends like. It will be rolling out later today and ...

Facebook updated the "Nearby" function in its iOS and Android apps with new social features that highlight local spots favored by friends on the social network. Prior to the update, the Nearby tab in ...

Facebook has begun to roll out a new mobile feature called Nearby Friends that allows you to share your exact location with friends and receive push notifications when your friends are nearby, the ...

In a bid to compete against local recommendation sites like Google, which has its own user-generated reviews along with expert reviews via the company’s Zagat acquisition, and Yelp, Facebook has ...

While firms such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are planning sub-orbital trips to space, many travel companies are focusing their mobile apps on activities on the ground — and what you can do in ...

Your phone always knows where you are. And now, if you want, your Facebook friends will always know where you are, too. Facebook is introducing a mobile feature called Nearby Friends that taps into ...

Facebook on Monday appeared to have quietly unveiled a new feature designed to let people see which Facebook users are nearby at any given time. The company called the feature “Find Friends Nearby,” ...

As quickly as it came, Facebook’s skunkworks ‘Find Friends Nearby’ mobile web feature is no longer working, ABC News reports. What originally started as a hackathon project by Facebook engineer Ryan ...