iSwifter launches full-featured mobile Facebook app — with social games included — on iPad

The problem with Facebook’s mobile app is that it doesn’t run games. The web-based site is built with Adobe Flash, but that runs poorly on mobile devices. As a result, Facebook can display its news feed and photos on its …

HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE shipments delayed over Apple patent investigation

HTC’s One X and and Evo 4G LTE may have been praised for their decidedly un-iPhone-esque designs, but the differences are apparently not enough for U.S. Customs.

The two devices have fallen victim to a surprising U.S. Customs ability to …

Wave Accounting gets funding to easily keep your company’s books in check

Small business startup Wave Accounting has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.

Wave, which offers free accounting software for small companies,  feels that managing “the books” is a complicated and dreaded task that …

Facebook IPO size increases by 25%, may reach $16B

Facebook’s initial public offering just keeps growing. The social network announced this morning via an amended S-1 filing that it will add around 84 million shares to its IPO, an increase of around 25 percent.

Come Friday, when the company …

Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences

Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it’s going to remind you of window-shopping with your best friends.

“Imagine you’re shopping with your friends, and one of them picks …

LinkedIn Co-founder joins Berlin-based EarlyBird Ventures

Have cash? Looking for tech talent? Go to Europe. So says Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn and newly minted venture partner in Berlin’s EarlyBird Ventures. EarlyBird recently raised $100 million for its fourth fund, focusing on European, and in particular …

Flipboard turns up the volume and adds audio content, SoundCloud support

The problem with most magazines is that they’re just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and social media.

The partnership kicks …

Dylan’s Desk: On eve of Facebook IPO, Silicon Valley’s gap with the rest of America widens

People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …

Conversion rates up, spending habits down among social gamers

While more social game players are becoming paying customers, overall spending on social games is down from a year ago, according to market research firm SuperData.