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Facebook Apps Transmitting Personal Data to Firms

Facebook Apps Are Leaking Your Personal Data

investigation

Oct 18, 2010 6:38 AM CDT

Facebook Apps Are Leaking Your Personal Data

Company 'working to fix problem'

(Newser) - Your oh-so-strict Facebook privacy settings aren't necessarily protecting you: Many popular Facebook applications have been transmitting identifying information to dozens of firms, a Wall Street Journal investigation has discovered. It's an issue that affects ten of millions of users and one that breaks the company's own rules about privacy. A...

Social Gaming Conquers US

56 million and counting

Aug 24, 2010 2:55 PM CDT

Social Gaming Conquers US

One in five Americans has played; majority are women

(Newser) - Americans love playing video games on social networks—one in five over the age of 6, or 56 million people, have played the likes of Farmville, Mafia Wars, or countless others at least once, says a new study. Like Nintendo's Wii, social game developers are cashing in on the casual...

Google Takes on
Facebook With
Games

Jul 28, 2010 7:13 AM CDT

Google Takes on Facebook With Games

Watch out, FarmVille

(Newser) - Google wants to get in on FarmVille and Mafia Wars. The search engine giant's latest run at rival Facebook is an attempt to get a piece of the social gaming pie. Google recently took a financial stake in a social game developer, and is reportedly in talks with other online...

Spotted: Farmville Groceries At Your Local 7-11

Spotted: Farmville Groceries
at Your Local 7-Eleven

Jul 6, 2010 10:51 AM CDT

Spotted: Farmville Groceries at Your Local 7-Eleven

(Newser) - Who'd have expected a modest Facebook game about raising cattle and tending to crops to become such a sensation? Now 7-Eleven is cashing in on the craze, with convenience stores selling FarmVille-branded food items. If that's not scary enough, many of these items have codes redeemable for in-game goodies including...

FarmVille, Mafia Wars
Coming to Yahoo

May 26, 2010 2:10 PM CDT

FarmVille, Mafia Wars Coming to Yahoo

Virtual worlds get a huge new userbase

(Newser) - Fans of FarmVille and Mafia Wars will soon have a huge new virtual world to conquer. Zynga, creator of the Facebook sensations, has struck a deal to make the games available on Yahoo's homepage and games section, reports Mashable . That will give Zynga a new potential userbase of about 600...

12-Year-Old Blows $1,400
on Farmville

Apr 8, 2010 12:34 PM CDT

12-Year-Old Blows $1,400 on Farmville

Uses mom's credit card to rack up debt on Facebook game

(Newser) - A 12-year-old UK boy has earned himself the grounding of a lifetime by racking up roughly $1,400 in Farmville charges, first emptying some $450 from his own savings account, and then charging another $950 to his unwitting mother’s credit card—all in the space of about two weeks,...

Politician Booted
for Playing Farmville

Mar 30, 2010 4:50 PM CDT

Politician Booted for Playing Farmville

Obsessive playing gets Bulgarian voted off city council

(Newser) - Farmville addiction has cost a European politician his job. Dimitar Kerin got voted off the city council of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, after checking his virtual crops one too many times during budget meetings. Council members recently got free laptops and access to a wireless network, and distracted bureaucrats have since been...

Average Social Gamer:
43-Year-Old Woman

Feb 17, 2010 5:24 PM CST

Average Social Gamer: 43-Year-Old Woman

Forget those old stereotypes of teens in the basement

(Newser) - Next time someone complains about how much time kids these days waste playing online games, bust out the results of this study: the average player is a 43-year-old woman. And they play a lot. The exploding popularity on Facebook and other sites of titles such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, and...

Online Gamers
a Cash Crop
for FarmVille

Nov 23, 2009 4:05 PM CST

Online Gamers a Cash Crop for FarmVille

Nonviolent, social game spreads like wildfire on Facebook

(Newser) - The latest video game craze sweeping America is a surprisingly cute Facebook application that doesn’t include even a single laser gun. FarmVille has attracted 60 million players, 22 million of whom still check in on their farms every day, harvesting crops, tending livestock, and helping their neighbors scare off...

Facebook Sees Big
Bucks in Virtual Goods

ONLINE GAMING

Oct 23, 2009 12:56 PM CDT

Facebook Sees Big Bucks in Virtual Goods

Social networking site wants a cut of gaming transactions

(Newser) - Gaming is blowing up on Facebook, and the social networking site hopes to take a cut of the very real revenue generated by virtual interactions. Analysts think credits and other services bought to enhance the likes of “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” will be trading at a clip of...