Starting in April, Facebook users could start seeing status updates showing the current locations of their friends. Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for close to a year, according to the New York Times. Facebook wants to go head-to-head with Google in the fight for small-business advertising. In 2009, Google started Google Latitude with the pitch to let users “See where your friends are right now.” Twitter, another Facebook competitor, has also added an option to include location data with messages
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