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• A CEO's Guide to Setting Goals for 2014

  One CEO gains inspiration from quotes by business luminaries such as John Chambers, Jeff Bezos, Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz

• Adobe adds geolocation targeting to Marketing Cloud

  Adobe Systems has added mobile features to its Marketing Cloud, allowing companies to better target smartphones with the help of geolocation and app analytics.

• RMIT builds on Twitter, Google Maps, geolocation to entice online poets

  The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is using social media and geolocation to entice aspiring writers to use its mobile website.

• Borders signs Foursquare for customer loyalty push

  Borders has announced that it has partnered with location sharing platform Foursquare in a move designed to increase customer loyalty.

• Location-Based Services: 5 Myths Debunked

  First there was location-based social network Foursquare. Then Gowalla and other sites followed suit and launched. And now with news that Facebook is slowly rolling out its own location-based technology, you can expect to hear a lot-both true and false-about what these services really are.

• Location-based Twitter app comes to Android

  Mobile social-networking company GyPSii has released an upgraded version of its Tweetsii application for the iPhone, and also added a version for Android, it said on Wednesday.

• Twitter wants to know where you are

  Twitter knows where you are -- at least in the U.S.
  

• Twitter turns on geolocation functionality

  Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end-users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.

• Picasa gains face recognition capabilities

  The latest version of Google's Picasa photo-management software adds face-recognition features and simplifies geotagging, the company announced Tuesday.

• GyPSii social network available for Android phones

  Users of Android-based phones now have access to social-networking site GyPSii, which focuses on location-centric services.

• Google seeks to boost geo apps with new Maps API

  Google has released a new API for Google Maps designed to relieve developers of the burden of maintaining their own repositories for geographical data.