With their new Places API for Android and iOS, Google is letting Developers tap into your location signal to actually let people know where you are, not your coordinates.

Google’s Places API and associated JavaScript library has been available for Web apps for some time now, but the new APIs will help developers easily add their functionality into native mobile apps.

As part of its Google I/O developer conference today, Google is offering some updates on its Google Places API for iOS as well as future updates arriving for its Maps app. The Google Places API ...

Google has updated the Google Places API to bring a number of interesting additions that will provide developers with the tools to add more local information and context to their apps and ...

The Google Places API is a powerful tool which can add an extra layer of functionality to your location-aware apps by giving you access to detailed information about a huge range of places ...

Google is offering up the application programming interface that powers its “Places” data as the basis for a new apps development challenge involving participants from around the world.

Today on their Geo blog, Google is announcing that they're beginning to open the Places API for business. The first developers getting access? Those working on check-in services.

On the first day of its I/O developer conference Google made a series of iOS-related announcements, including making Inbox available to everyone, bringing its Cardboard virtual reality technology ...

So far, Places API has been available as a web service, but now it has been integrated in the recently released Android Play Services 7.0, and a beta program has been started to bring it natively ...

The Google Places API for iOS, first launched in beta mode a few months back, is now available to all developers and will be arriving soon in a number of notable iOS apps. The API lets devs tap ...