The Next Web writes, 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 creations. Most notably, the Web giant has now added support for Google Reviews, which can now be shown at the foot of maps and text search, which allows users to find specific details within maps (as below), as is possible with Google Maps already. The Google Geo Developers blog post provides more details on these two new features: Google Reviews By far the most popular request from developers since the day...