Five of the top 10 global game developers on Facebook are from Europe, the Middle East, or Asia, compared with just one in 2011, Julien Codorniou, the social network’s head of games partnerships for EMEA, said during Facebook’s developer day at GDC Europe last month.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
More than 235 million people are playing games on Facebook.com each month, up from 205 million in August 2011, and up 8.4 percent since the beginning of 2012, according to statistics released by Facebook at Game Developers Conference Europe 2012 in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday.
Next week’s Casual Connect Seattle, July 24 through 26 at Benaroya Hall and Triple Door, will feature talks by two members of the Facebook team.
