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Facebook says paying gamers surge by 24%

, Mar 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

When it comes social networking on the Internet, Facebook is the site most people go to. Facebook has been trying all sorts of ways to generate more revenue from the approximately 1,000,000,000 members it has all around the world. One of the ways that Facebook is trying to squeeze money out of these members is with video games that users can pay to play. Read The Full Story

Facebook improves mobile app install ads for developers

, Mar 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has improved its mobile app install ads service to allow developers to reach a much more specific user base with their ads. The mobile install ads service is a great tool for developers to make their mobiles apps more well known to the world. Many developers have seen their mobile apps downloads increase phenomenally after using the service. Social Quantum, an international game developer, saw its app become the #5 grossing app in the US within less than a month after using the service. Read The Full Story

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures hits limited beta on Facebook

, Mar 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

One of the most popular games from PopCap Games for casual gamers was Plants vs. Zombies. The game first debuted a long time ago and was incredibly popular on a number of platforms. PopCap Games has announced that it is launching a new Plants vs. Zombies game in limited beta on Facebook for social gamers. Read The Full Story

Facebook game developers made $2.8B in 2012

, Mar 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

Executives from Facebook have revealed that game developers generated around $2.8 billion in revenue last year. Sean Ryan, Facebook's Director of Game Partnerships, spoke at the Game Developers Conference trying to entice more developers to join Facebook's gaming platform. Ryan stated, "Anywhere in the games business we are investing heavily." Ryan rolled out a bunch of impressive statistics to get more developers on board. Read The Full Story

Facebook brings ads straight to your newsfeed

, Mar 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook is launching a new advertising test feature that will allow advertisers and marketers to bring ads straight to your Facebook newsfeed. The new test feature is part of Facebook Exchange, Facebook's way of allowing businesses to cater there ads to people based on their online browsing history. The test feature will be rolled out to a small alpha group at first, and will expand over the next few weeks. Read The Full Story

Facebook implements conversation threads into Pages

, Mar 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has just announced another great new feature that should make commenting and replying on your favorite Facebook Pages easier. The new feature creates comment threads under Facebook posts (similar to the comment threads you see here on SlashGear), so you no longer have to include the @ symbol when you're replying to only one person. Everything is much more organized and clean. Read The Full Story

Facebook Events now show weather forecasts

, Mar 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has updated its Events feature to include weather forecasts. The weather forecasts only begin to appear when the event is happening within the next 10 days, however, but its a nifty little feature that should aid when planning a get-together. When you're creating a Facebook event, the weather forecast should appear right below the "When" section. Read The Full Story

Zynga distances itself from Facebook

, Mar 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Zynga has announced that it will no longer be requiring people to log into their Facebook accounts when entering its site. Zynga wants to distance itself from Facebook in order to become a more independent game developer. You are now able to access your favorite games, like Farmville, Chefville, Draw Sometihng, and more via a stand-alone Zynga account. Read The Full Story

Facebook data shows NCAA tournament fan statistics in the US

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

Remember last month when we showed you Facebook data of NFL fans across the US? It's back again, only this time it's all about the NCAA men's basketball tournament that just started yesterday. The data is from over 1 million Facebook users who have "liked" a fan page of one of the 68 teams in the tournament. Read The Full Story

Facebook study shows friends are a great network for job opportunities

, Mar 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Those of you who are currently unemployed, or are looking to venture onto another job, apparently the best place to start looking is straight from your Facebook's friends list. Facebook's Moira Burke and Robert Kraut performed a study to determine whether your friends really are your best network in finding a new job, or if it's better to network with a group of distant acquaintances. Read The Full Story

Facebook blocks MessageMe users from its “Find Friends” feature

, Mar 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

MessageMe may be the new guy on the block, but it has been experienced phenomenal success since its launch. The app had launched a little over a week ago, and has already hit the number 2 position on iOS's Social Networking section. The app sees so much success, even in an over-saturated market of messaging apps, because its part of a social gaming company called LOLapps, which currently has over 50 million active users on Facebook. Read The Full Story

Facebook promotes ex-Mozilla engineer to CTO

, Mar 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook is going rampant with its changes. It has brought on a new targeted ad interface for marketers, a new and improved timeline, support for hashtags, and now a new Chief Technology Officer. Mike Schroepfer, previously the Senior Vice President of Engineering, has become the new CTO of Facebook, replacing interim CTOs Cory Ondrejka and Mike Vernal. It's still uncertain what Facebook will do with Ondrejka and Vernal. Read The Full Story
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