Bing adds search for Facebook’s 300 million new daily photos (updated)

Facebook users are adding a stunning 300 million new photos each and every day. So Bing just added a new way to search and browse your friends' photos without all the clutter of status updates and friend requests.

Apple adds checkin features to iOS 6 Maps via Yelp integration

Just a day after Facebook quietly added a feature to find your friends nearby, Apple has reportedly added similar functionality courtesy of its relationship with local business review service Yelp.

Bloomberg said this morning that documentation recently provided to Apple …

Facebook testing new “star your close friends” feature

Facebook users who logged in last night may have caught a glimpse of a new feature on Facebook. The largest social network in the world is testing “Star Your Close Friends,” an experimental feature that will ensure you see more …

Among Gen Y, some are abandoning Facebook for Google+

People who have grown up online might be more eager than most to make the switch from Facebook to Google.

The search giant’s social network — which delivers data in bite-sized chunks thanks to the use of Circles — is …

Foursquare fights fake friends

Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks — spurious friend requests. And it’s dealing with violators by putting a cap on them.

Users now have a limit on the total number of friends …

Loopt brings users closer to Facebook friends

Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced it has integrated Facebook Places into its mobile check-in application. The application is available for iPhone and iPod touch.

Loopt users will now be able to seamlessly connect their Facebook profiles …