Apps Rule! Wooga No Longer Distributing Mobile Games on Facebook.

A step back for Facebook’s mobile strategy as Wooga pulls an HTML5-enabled mobile game from the social network.

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Is That French?

Excuse my French, it was a clusterfuck. It’s like you had a chance to win the Super Bowl and you didn’t show up for the game.

– Elevation Partners Roger McNamee, about the Facebook IPO

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Pinterest Expands Attribution Credits to Etsy, Kickstarter, SlideShare

Pinterest said today it was adding attribution trails for content from 500px, Etsy, Kickstarter, SlideShare and SoundCloud, and when possible enabling in-line play of content from those sites. While the visual curation site might have grown faster than its copyright and credit controls, it is now trying to layer them on top through these direct partnerships.

Yahoo Officially in Settlement Talks With Facebook Over Patent Case (Like ATD Said)

But our dear readers knew that already!
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Prismatic Personalized News Reader Opens to the Public

Yes, it’s been done before, but Prismatic is a buzzy new personalized news aggregator that promises to discover fresh content better than the others.
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GPS App Strava Sued Over Cyclist’s Death

Strava, the maker of GPS tracking apps that are well loved and well used among cyclists, has been sued by the family of a biker who died in 2010.
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Giving Credit Where Due: Facebook Streamlines Payments System

Facebook Credits didn’t take off, so the company is switching up its game.
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Spotify’s Sean Parker and Daniel Ek Make Music — And Some Noise: The Full D10 Interview (Video)

They stream the songs that make the whole world sing.
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JustAnswer Becomes Pearl, Comes Out From Under the Radar

Quora, what? Pearl is an eight-year-old site with 40 million monthly global unique visitors and an annual run rate of $100 million.
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Codecademy Rounds Up $10 Million for Web Lessons

Index, Kleiner Perkins, Richard Branson and Yuri Milner back the 10-month-old “learn to code” start-up.
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