Facebook games

You can't buy this kind of free publicity! Alec Baldwin was booted from an American Airlines flight last week, after the politically charged and occasionally enraged actor refused to stop playing Zynga's Scrabble-clone Words With Friends when his commercial flight was ready to depart. What better omen for Zynga's upcoming IPO?

In an attempt to crack down on spam, Facebook has shut down a number of third-party software applications in the past week. The move could signal that the world's most popular social network plans maintain righter control over the apps that run on its site.

According to a recent survey by Miniwatts Marketing Group 517,760,460 million people, or roughly 7% of the world's population, have an account on social networking site, Facebook. New "friends" (dare I say, citizens) are joining daily. The Republic of Facebook? Like all emerging nations, the mega...

FarmVille, the social networking game that allows players to tend a virtual farm tcomplete with crops and livestock, is a beloved pastime for many Facebook members, but for one fan it turned into a financial fiasco. In just two weeks, a child in England spent $1,375 fixing up his "farm," blowing...

Facebook has now teamed with the eBay-owned PayPal to pay for self-service ads and virtual goods.Although Facebook was once considering its own pay system, rumored to be Facebook Wallet, those plans appear to be shelved. Facebook said that it was partnering with PayPal because 70% of its 400...

I wanted to talk to Maha Ibrahim because I kept running into Watercooler. Not a real watercooler, but the community-based fan and games network that's generating lots of buzz in social networking. Ibrahim is a general partner at Canaan Partners, a $3 billion venture capital fund that's one of...