A startup called Bazaar Labs just released a new app called Miso , way to share what movies and TV shows you’re watching with your friends. Like the company’s last app, FlixUp, this is a movie-focused spin on an existing social service.
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Bazaar Labs launches Miso, a Foursquare-style app for TV and movies
Online games provider Playdom , one of the big three social gaming publishers, has acquired Facebook game developer Offbeat Creations .
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Playdom eyes a bigger Facebook presence by acquiring Offbeat Games
The US will wake up to a fine howdy do from Nokia’s 5230 Nuron now that it’s officially announced for T-Mobile. The device first introduced by Nokia back in August will be available to middle America “in the coming weeks” on T-Mobile’s 3G network
Facebook earned a patent for its core news feed and published one for prioritizing communication from apps based on how closely users interact with them.
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Facebook earns patent for news feed, publishes one on application affinity
In its ambition to be a player in the red hot category of social network games, Hi5 is expected to announce today that it has acquired a social gaming platform company and a new team of executives with years of experience in online games. The San Francisco social networking company has acquired Big Six, an Austin, Texas-based social game developer that has its own battle-tested virtual currency platform. It has also hired Big Six co-founders Kevin Gliner , Monty Kerr and Chad Hansing to help run Hi5
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Hi5 to announce new online games management team, acquisition of social game firm Big Six
European antitrust regulators are investigating complaints in France, Germany and Italy by competitors who claim Google is unfairly using its huge market advantage — sometimes an even greater percentage of local searchers than in America — to push them out of business. We initially reported this last night, but there is more detail now . Most notably, Microsoft-owned Ciao , a comparison shopping site which Microsoft acquired in 2008 and has since integrated into its Bing search engine, has joined with map service Euro-Cities, the German newspaper Bild , and German magazine publisher Hubert Burda Media in complaints against the Silicon Valley search giant.
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Microsoft adds to Google antitrust complaints in Europe
It’s time to unveil our expert panel of judges for the second annual Who’s Got Game contest for the best game startup.
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GamesBeat@GDC: Meet our expert judges for the Who’s Got Game startup contest
Filed under: Gaming , Software , Internet , Interviews , iPhone , App Store On the day before Macworld last week, I got a chance to sit down with Eros Remini, VP of Marketing for OpenFeint, to talk about his social gaming network for iPhone apps. He shared with me that the network has claimed a gigantic 12 million users total, with about a million of them active in iPhone games from day to day
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Macworld 2010: TUAW talks to OpenFeint
