Want to get more points and earn money faster in MyTown? We offer both basic and advanced strategies for MyTown: BASIC STRATEGY Check-in, Check-in, Check-in. If you’ve used Foursquare or other location-based services, you might initially think that you should actually be at a physical location in order to check-in there. This is not the expectation in [ Read More ]
MyTown is a very popular mobile game by Booyah. It is a real estate trading game like Monopoly except that instead of buying, selling, and renting fictitious properties, the game references actual restaurants, bars, stores, and venues near the player. As such, it is a location-based social game as the gameplay [ Read More ]
My set ritual before going to bed each night is as follows — turn out the lights, plug in my iPhone, take off my glasses and attempt vainly to nod off. Step two in that process can be a bit of a crapshoot in the dark, but the folks at Scrap Pile Labs have recently [ Read More ]
The biggest initial public offering in recent years will take place today on Wall Street.
After years of rumors about an inevitable IPO, Friday, May 18, 2012 delivers the moment of truth for the largest social network on the planet.
“If the Facebook IPO is to succeed,” says CNBC’s Jeff Cox, “it will have to overcome a [ Read More ]
It’s been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for .5 billion, and now it seems that the final pieces of the deal have fallen into place.
According to a new report from the Associated Press, Chinese officials have finally given the Google-Motorola deal their blessing.
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Well, Facebook has gone public, and it’s underwhelming most observers by hovering around , around 5% above its IPO price of . That’s all well and good for Zuckerberg, who now can say the company is definitely a 0B market cap business for now. But for shareholders, is it a good time to get in? [ Read More ]
It was a big week for social media. On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog shared his thoughts on Facebook’s long-awaited IPO, speculating on how today’s results will affect the larger social media ecosystem.
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Android apps on the Windows phone? Looks like it’s happening in the near future. That’s according to a new report today highlighting how Microsoft may put to use new patent technology that will let users experience applications from competing operating systems like iOS and Android on the Windows Phone.
“Microsoft wants to patent an app migration [ Read More ]
This week, Financial Times is hiring a senior web designer, and High 5 Games is looking for a social media analyst. McGraw-Hill needs a social media manager, and M+R Strategic Services is seeking a social media strategist. Get all the details on these jobs and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.
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On Friday, investors across the board “liked” Facebook on a day when stocks generally traded mixed in what has turned out to be a choppy trading session ahead of the weekend.
Facebook traded above after an initial 10 percent spike in its first day as a public company.
Earlier this week, the social network priced its [ Read More ]
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Facebook’s IPO One of World’s Largest (AP)
Facebook priced its IPO at per share on Thursday, at the top of expectations. Now, regular investors will have a chance to buy stock in Facebook for the first time. The stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq [ Read More ]
When Google added a social layer to its search bar, it seemed that the company might have gone too far in using social media to enhance its other products. But the search engine’s newest feature, the Knowledge Graph, will use the connections between particular people, places, and things – not friend recommendations – to deliver [ Read More ]