Facebook Buys Mobile Discovery Service Glancee

Facebook has scooped up another startup in its path toward mobile dominance. This time, it’s Glancee, an ambient location-based service that competes with Highlight. From Glancee’s home page: “We started Glancee in 2010 with the goal of bringing together the best of your physical and digital worlds. We wanted to make it easy to discover the hidden connections around you, [...]

Facebook Adds “Listen” Button to Bands, Artist’s Pages.

Facebook is adding on Tuesday a “Listen” button to some its band and artist pages that give users an easy way to listen to their favorite songs directly on the site. As of now, fans can listen to songs from artists such as Justin Bieber and Linkin Park to former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash directly on Facebook via various music services [...]

f8, Facebook Developer Conference is back.

      After months of speculation, Facebook has finally announced the date of its annual developer conference, f8. The fourth edition of the conference will take place Sept. 22 in San Francisco. “This all day event with Facebook engineers and product teams will feature keynotes and session tracks that highlight our new tools along with best [...]

Old Version of Twitter to Be Dropped Down This Week:

  Twitter is finally retiring the old version of its social media service, nearly a year after the launch of New Twitter. “If you’re currently using Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you’ll be upgraded to New Twitter this week,” the company announced in a tweet. Twitter has been warning users since the switch [...]

Google+ Tips & Tricks :

 Already using Google+? Follow mobilegameroids  for the latest gadgets & technology news,  features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media updates. Are you addicted to Google+ like millions of others early adopters? Do you spend your Saturday nights hanging out in Google+ Hangouts? You’re not alone. As Google releases more invites to its social network, more people are trying [...]

Justin Timberlake To Take Ownership Stake in MySpace

Today, we learned MySpace had been sold for $35 million to an advertising network called Specific Media. Now, the company says singer Justin Timberlake will take an ownership stake in MySpace and play a role in its future. According to MySpace, we should know more about Specific Media’s and Timberlake’s vision for the company later this summer. [...]

Facebook Expands Safety & Security Tools

Just a day after security firm Sophos sent Facebook an open letteraddressing privacy issues, Facebook has introduced a suite of new safety features. While the social network did not satisfy the letter’s requests to make privacy the default, create a vetting process for app developers and turn on HTTPS automatically, it did come through on the [...]