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Lawsuits over Facebook’s Beacon app complicate possible settlements

In what has been developing into a cautionary tale of when good apps go bad, potential class-action settlements in California and Texas surrounding Facebook’s Beacon ad program may substantially affect one another. The outcomes in California and Texas jurisdictions will also play a role in other cases involving Beacon, Blockbuster, and Facebook.

Facebook App Developer Secures Investor Funding

Berlin-based Wooga, a social gaming company, has closed a round of venture funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures.

Wooga makes Brain Buddies, a popular Facebook game similar to another game called “Who Has the Biggest Brain?”

Facebook to block noncompliant apps

Advertising Age reports that Facebook will block apps that incorporate advertising that fail to comply with Facebook guidelines.  Two types of advertisements may no longer run on Facebook:

  • Anything that sends “user data received from Facebook to ad networks,”

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