(Reuters) – Media giant News Corp aims to build its own social-gaming business as valuations of games companies, such as FarmVille maker Zynga skyrocket, its head of digital media said on Wednesday. Jonathan Miller also said News Corp’s The Daily, a newspaper designed for Apple’s iPad, had had hundreds of millions of downloads since its launch [...]

TOKYO – Dentsu Inc.  and Facebook, Inc. announced an agreement under which Dentsu will become the official representative of Facebook’s sales and marketing support to companies in Japan. Under this agreement, Dentsu, as Facebook’s official ad sales representative in the Japanese market, will provide consultation on effective Facebook Page (see Note 1) development, exclusively market [...]

By April Dembosky in San Francisco Published: March 14 2011 Facebook said it was entering the fast-growing “deal of the day” market, posing a challenge to online discount marketing pioneers Groupon and LivingSocial. The social network’s large audience and detailed database of user preferences positions it to be a fierce competitor in this market, which is [...]

by Erik Sass Here’s one of those stats that makes you sit up and take notice: Facebook was identified as “the ‘primary source’” of evidence in divorce cases by fully two-thirds of divorce lawyers surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. This figure is especially incredible when you consider that Facebook didn’t even exist ten [...]

By Richard Waters Published: March 9 2011 For media companies, when and how to tap into the new mobile and social platforms on the web is as much a question of timing and technological tactics as of business strategy. But make no mistake: as the platforms quickly evolve, most companies have little choice but to engage [...]

By Tim Bradshaw Published: March 8 2011 Spotify is this week celebrating signing up its millionth subscriber – but only quietly. Staff at the digital music service’s offices in London have not been treated to a big party, slap-up feast or cracked open the champagne. Spotify says there will be a few pats on backs, then it’s [...]

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And STEVEN RUSSOLILLO Warner Bros. will begin offering select movies through Facebook, a move that will enable the social-networking giant to compete in the online movie-rental market. The new offering—which was made by Warner Brothers without explicit assistance from Facebook—puts Facebook Inc. in greater competition with Netflix Inc. and other tech companies vying [...]

By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Published: February 21 2011 20:46 | Last updated: February 21 2011 20:46 Advertising agencies and technology investors are rushing to snap up fledgling companies that are providing additional marketing services around Facebook, as a new industry grows up on the back of the social networking phenomenon. Start-up companies in [...]

Dan Frommer | Feb. 12, 2011, 10:12 PM Former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, now at Kleiner Perkins, is famous for her amazing slideshow presentations about the future of the Internet, the rise of mobile computing, and new business models. Here’s her latest presentation, which, according to TechCrunch, she’ll be delivering today with Matt Murphy at a Google event…more

by Erik Sass, July 9th 2010, 4:49 PM Although Facebook’s growth appears to be slowing in the United States (the site added a mere 320,800 new users in June, down from 7.8 million new users in May), the U.S. is only half the story. Or actually, significantly less than half the story. Indeed, one of the most [...]

Feb 4 2010, 10:40 am by Derek Thompson Facebook’s page view explosion in the last months of 2009 — plus new evidence that it is becoming the major driver of news — has some analysts wondering whether the site is taking over Google News and personalized Google Reader accounts as America’s leading information hub. To me the issue [...]

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon – a diagnosis confirmed by my children and my way cooler friends – I find Twitter and Facebook annoying. Social media is an unavoidable reality for publishers, as we have often reported in these pages. It may even be profitable, and not just to Web 2.0 developers [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?

Social Networks advertising dilemma There was something a little dispiriting about Google’sannouncement last week of its plans to bring video advertising to YouTube. This was only partly a result of the deadening sensation instilled by a sense of creeping commercialisation… more