Facebook Is Creating Location-Sharing App, Report Says Facebook is developing a new app that keeps track of user location, and reports that information to friends when they're nearby, according to a report. The app will be released mid-March, and will run even when it isn't open on users' phones, Bloomberg reports. For example, Facebook user Shirley may get a notification that says Bob is around t

Artificial intelligence features will be trickling into the EU very, very slowly.

Apple just sent members of the press invitations to an event on Sept. 12. With the prominent number "5" in the invitation's image, the event is undoubtedly when the company will unveil its next iPhone, often referred to as the "iPhone 5" by the media. San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple's traditional choice for big unveilings, will serve as the venue. The event will begin at 10

Facebook is testing a new feature for desktop and mobile, Save for Later, which will let you add stories to a Saved folder. Saving stories will provide a similar experience to adding a tweet to your Favorites on Twitter. The folder lives under Apps in Facebook's iOS and desktop versions. To save a story, hold your finger down on the feature and a pop-up saying "Save" will appear. On Facebook deskt

Latitude Leaderboard: Does Google Want to Be the New Foursquare? Last week, Google launched an updated version of Google Maps for Android, equipped with the new feature similar to Foursquare. The company hasn't officially said it wants to compete against Foursquare. Leaderboard's addition to Google Latitude has been kept hush-hush. Google doesn't even list Leaderboard as being a new feature on the

The app [iTunes link], which displays feeds from both formal news sources and social networks in a magazine-like format, has been entirely reengineered to serve the unique habits of newsreaders on the iPhone: That is, users who want to access all of their newsfeeds in quick, short spans without sacrificing what Flipboard CEO Mike McCue describes as "the notion of bringing beauty to these posts." F

The additions, announced Wednesday, are also designed to give consumers information when they're on the go. Save to Foursquare is an update of "Add to Foursquare," a feature the company introduced in 2010 for a short time. Save to Foursquare does the same thing: It lets users save reviews and articles about a venue to their To Do list and then call them up when they check in or are in range of tha

[brightcove video="1275412230001" /] Foursquare has revamped its popular badge system in an effort to increase user engagement and encourage exploration. Starting Monday, Foursquare's core 24 category badges will begin leveling up based on users' checkins. A numerical icon now appears on the bottom right of badges such as "JetSetter," "Wino" and "Great Outdoors", indicating how often users have ch

Foursquare “Radar” Taps iOS 5 to Alert iPhone Users of Local Activities Foursquare has released version 4.0 of its iPhone app with a new feature called Radar that informs users about stuff happening nearby. Radar leverages new functionality available in Apple's iOS 5 SDK -- specifically "region monitoring." Once you opt in to Radar, Foursquare will send you push notifications when you're nearby pl

The relatively shallow market penetration of checkin services is not surprising. In November, Pew released survey results showing 4% of online adults use location-based services and only 1% use these services on a given day. Even though the new study focused exclusively on mobile checkins, as opposed to including online checkins that may occur without a mobile device, the percentage of users didn'

The site for Google's new photo-related project Photovine has gone live, but the actual product or app is still missing. Located at photovine.com, the site currently features an image of a mobile app - interestingly, the device in the image is definitely an iPhone and not an Android device - and a short description of the upcoming product: "Photovine is a fun way to learn more about your friends,

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has announced that the search giant will launch its Groupon competitor on Wednesday, starting with Portland. The news that Google is getting into the daily deals space is not a surprise. Google attempted and failed to acquire Groupon for $6 billion last year. A few months later, Mashable exclusively learned that Google was developing a Groupon competitor call