Motorola, which is recruiting as many as 350 people to work on Android phones, is gearing up to make its first one:the Android Social Smart Phone. Last week, Android Guys spotted a job posting for the project, and now BusinessWeek has more details, including a mention of the Motorola job posting pictured at left [...]

When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitability or [...]

Playfish, the Facebook game developer that has four apps in the top 10 gaming apps on the site, closed a $17 million Series B round led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures.
Sounds a bit bubble-like, but Playfish is one of a few app developers on Facebook that has actually seen traffic increase since the site [...]

by Caroline McCarthy

With the launch of the much-anticipated MySpace Music expected within the week, tech industry wags are already asking if MySpace’s archrival Facebook has its own “social music” strategy.

Tags: advertising, Entertainment, facebook, media, music, myspace, social networking

SocialU claimsnot to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays all of your social networks in their own tabs. You can undock networks and tabs if you want.

Tags: Social Media, [...]