Archive for the ‘FB News’ Category

New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sociable Labs, SponsorPay, Kixeye and more

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Sociable Labs, Fiveonenine Games, SponsorPay,  Machine Zone, King.com, Kixeye, PopCap Games, Ryzing,GameHouse, IMVU, Nuukster, Kobojo, Sneaky Games, Circle of Moms and SoJo Studios. Social Interaction Designer Director of Monetization Senior Agency Sales Executive [...]

Facebook makes another mobile acquisition: location app Glancee

Facebook today closed a deal to acquire Glancee, an ambient mobile location app that alerts users when people with similar interests are nearby, according to an announcement on Glancee’s website. Co-founders of the San Francisco-based startup — Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti and Gabriel Grise — will join Facebook, but other terms of the deal were [...]

Facebook Offers beta extends to more local businesses in U.S.

Facebook says that it will roll out its new self-serve offers feature to all local business pages in the U.S. today. [Update 5/3/12 5:10 p.m. PT - Facebook tells us that offers are still not available to all business pages, but it has expanded the self-serve beta.] Previously, offers were only available to a small number [...]

What non-profits can take away from Facebook’s organ donation initiative and past activism efforts

Many non-profit organizations already use Facebook pages and apps to raise awareness and money for their causes, but yesterday’s organ donation initiative is another example of the social network’s willingness to work more directly with non-profits on broad social issues and the sort of impact that can result. To promote organ donation, Facebook added a [...]

Facebook Wants Us To Save Lives Through Organ Donation, Will We Follow Through?

This morning, Facebook announced a new feature which lets users post to their Facebook timeline that they’ve chosen to be an organ donor. The idea is that friends will choose to share the story of their decision with friends, hopefully tapping into Facebook’s natural virality to encourage others to do the same. (Hey, it’s worth a [...]

Facebook’s Patent Acquisitions? They’re More About Google Than Yahoo

Editor’s Note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP. Follow Lenny on Twitter: @lkravets and @startupsIP. In the past [...]

New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Nixon Peabody, Courier.com, SponsorPay and more

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Nixon Peabody, Courier Publishing, SponsorPay, Warner Brothers, Circle of Moms, IMVU, Sneaky Games, Ryzing, Kobojo, Kixeye, GameHouse, King.com, Nuukster, EA, Machine Zone and PopCap Games. Senior Communications Manager Senior Internet Marketing Manager Senior Agency Sales [...]

Dan Bull’s Facebook Epic Rap Aims To Be Most-Torrented Single On Global Music Charts

This is a few days old but it’s well worth revisiting if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s by English rapper Dan Bull and it’s about everyone’s favorite time-waster, TheFacebook. The best part? He also does a Twitter one. Give it a listen and then download it for free to help Bull hit the record [...]

Facebook Beefs Up Security With Antivirus Marketplace Full Of Free Software

As Facebook pushes ever closer to one billion users, one of the biggest issues it has faced has been backlash from consumers around the areas of privacy and security. Today, the social network is taking two steps in an effort to improve its image around that area — and potentially positioning itself as a software [...]

Facebook to increase profile picture size for pages

Facebook will increase the size of profile pictures on all business and fan pages on Thursday, according to an email the company sent to page owners. The new profile picture will appear as 160×160 pixels and will sit 23 pixels from the left and 210 pixels from the top of the page. This will not [...]