Google Places: All Up In Your Business

Local Business Center, the service that local businesses use to hand a virtual shingle from within Google Maps, is being renamed Google Places. Along with the name change, Google's added a heap of new features to help firms connect with potential customers. As well as simplifying the way businesses connect with Place Pages and Google Goggles, the relaunch will sew up even more advertising dollars--and, somewhat bizarrely, offer businesses the chance of a free photo shoot with a photographer...