
Droid does it: Facebook announced a press event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday (April 4), with the invite reading, “Come See Our New Home on Android.”

Droid does it: Facebook announced a press event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday (April 4), with the invite reading, “Come See Our New Home on Android.”
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Facebook’s fourth-quarter earnings call is set for Jan. 30, but Facebook advertising solutions provider Spruce Media offered its early look at the state of advertising on the social network during the last three months of 2012, and the company was optimistic that the sector will continue to grow.

Even a casual Facebook user can see that the site has changed dramatically over the past year. On Thursday, Facebook’s developers team took some time to reflect on some of the highlights that made the social network what it is today.

With 2012 drawing to a close, Wednesday was year in review time at Facebook, as the social network released its 2012 Year in Review, as well as instructions for its users to create their own year in review posts.

Although Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have the tabloid-turning power of Kim Kardashian or Justin Bieber, Facebook was among Bing’s most-searched terms of the year.

Facebook is continuing to upgrade its mobile applications. The site announced another update Wednesday, this one for the standalone Pages Manager app for iOS devices.

Facebook advertising and marketing developer Optimal announced the release Wednesday of its Audience Matrix social analytics product, which taps the company’s proprietary consumer analytics database of more than 2.5 million affinities and interests.

What do Apple’s iOS 6, the larger screen on its new iPhone 5, and bubbles have in common? They are all pillars of the new version of Facebook Messenger for iOS.

With all of the hype about the iPhone 5 and Facebook’s renewed focus on Android, it’s easy for BlackBerry’s newest release to get lost in the noise. The BlackBerry 10 was announced during a recent conference in San Jose, Calif. The new phone will have a native Facebook application, as well as (finally) timeline.

Facebook Thursday rolled out a new iOS application, Facebook for iOS 5.0.1, which includes support for iOS 6, as well as the soon-to-be-released iPhone 5.