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# Facebook launches Places Deals and new iPhone and Android App
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## Facebook is to launch Places Deals, a service that allows American users
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to check in to shops to get 'deals'.
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![Mark Zuckerberg: Lots of friends, so many enemies
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Facebook has updated its iPhone and Android apps as well as launched a new
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service, 'Facebook Deals' Photo: AP
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By Matt Warman 7:00AM GMT 04 Nov 2010
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[Comments][2]
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Facebook today updated its Apps on the iPhone and Android platforms to include
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"Groups" functions, brought "Places" to the Android mobile platform in the UK
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and announced that American users who check in to specific shops will get
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"deals", including free clothing from Gap and donations to charity from
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MacDonalds.
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Facebook's Head of Mobile, Henri Mossinac, said the strategy reflected a bid
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to make the mobile web a more social experience, and also announced that the
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social network had 200 million active mobile users. They were far more engaged
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with the site than their 500 million desktop counterparts, he added.
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The updated apps are available now to download via the iPhone and Android app
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stores. The Apple version gets groups functions added and already has
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"Places". The Android app gets both groups and "Places" added at the same time
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and American users will now see deals when they check in to specific outlets.
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Gap is offering the first 10,000 customers to check in a free pair of jeans,
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and then subsequent visitors 40% off, Mr Mossinac said. MacDonalds will donate
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$1 to its foundation for each user who checks in at a restaurant.
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Check-in deals will be launched in the UK shortly, although no announcement is
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imminent. When the Places function was launched in America, it followed in the
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UK six weeks later.
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An updated SDK is also being used for developers, including Places Deals and
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in-app log-in improvements.
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