Details of additional social-location services perhaps looming from Google. Indeed for businesses (and developers) this could make loads of sense. Places data are already available and could be potentially useful to a business owner, so naturally, adding the ability to offer a deal to users that are accessing a business' place information is a no brainer.
This from Techchrunch...
It looks like Google+ is adding a feature that will allow users to “check-in” via the Google+ mobile application in order to receive a time-sensitive deal or discount. This feature is mentioned in Google Places’s help documentation, but has not yet been made available to business owners using the Google Places service.
Google check-ins have a confusing history, it has to be said.
To be clear, the ability to check in via Google+ is not new.
