According to the latest research from eMarketer, Facebook dominated the 80 percent of companies with 100 or more employees tusing social media in their marketing campaigns this year, as the social network was part of 93 percent of those campaigns.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Do You Need A Facebook Detox?

We don’t actually advocate an all-out detox from Facebook, but rather using it in moderation — unless the site causes you pain or conflict that doesn’t go away even with reduced usage. So how many of the following ten questions apply to you?
WATCH: College Humor Animates A Facebook Roast

College Humor created an animated roast of Facebook with voiceovers by Penn Jillette, Gilbert Gottfried and Lisa Lampanelli.
Gowalla Update Unifies Check-Ins Across Location Apps, Including Facebook

Gowalla now works with all check-in services, including Facebook.
Former Foursquare Engineer Poached By Facebook
This week, Facebook picked up former Foursquare engineer, Nathan Folkman according to Business Insider.
VOTE: Facebook Places Or Foursquare?

When Facebook announced their deals services last week many argued that this would be the end of Foursquare. Rather than postulating whether or not foursquare or Facebook Places would win, we thought we’d open it up to a reader poll.
Foursquare Co-Founder Slams Facebook Places As 'Boring'

So Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley thinks that Facebook Places is “pretty boring”? That’s the line he took in an interview with the UK’s Daily Telegraph.
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Foursquare Holds Off On Facebook Places Integration
I love how companies “cooperate” in the tech industry. Twitter recently “helped” out TweetMeme by giving them another business to focus on. Facebook has now “helped” out Foursquare by making them wonder what’s next. They also welcomed the company up on stage to announce that they would … GASP … consider what to do with Facebook Places! Apparently Foursquare will eventually have Facebook integration, however right now they are working on their own product roadmap and don’t have the resources to integrate.
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Yes, Facebook Is Talking To Foursquare

Recently we heard from sources close to Facebook that the company was in conversations with Foursquare about a potential acquisition and/or some form of partnership. Unfortunately the details have been slim but Kara Swisher is also hearing things as well. The most apparent thing about these conversations is that Facebook has yet to finalize their plans for location.
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Facebook Looks To Enable Foursquare, Gowalla, And Other Location Services

With Facebook integrating location based services into their platform in the coming months, many are wondering how the new service will be implemented. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that Facebook will definitely be enabling services like Foursquare and Gowalla, rather than competing with them directly. From the sound of things, Facebook’s implementation could be similar in some ways to Twitter’s new implementation.
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