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We’ve heard a lot recently about gamification and adding game elements to non-gaming content to improve user engagement. Now, a new study from the mobile social network MocoSpace gives us some numbers to back up the idea that gamers are more engaged than other kinds of social network users. I…

We now have a confirmed interested party in MySpace, which News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). publicly said was up for sale this week: Mobile social network MocoSpace is telling various media outlets that it has approached News Corp. about buying the property.

The latest in News Corp.‘s yearlong divestitures in its digital unit is Fox Mobile Group, which the conglomerate announced Wednesday was sold to Jesta Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Zynga, the darling of online social games with 45 million daily active users, has been a relatively late entrant in the mobile space, with its games apps focussed mainly around one platform, Apple’s iOS. With last week’s acquisition of Newtoy, now renamed Zynga With Friends, it is stepping up what…

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) giveth, and News Corp. taketh away. On the same day that we learn about one division, Fox Mobile, downsizing staff, we also learn that another division, MySpace, is bulking up in its mobile push, with a new website and iPhone app. The news comes on the…

Mixed Media Labs, which is behind picplz, an online and mobile app that lets users add special effects to photos, has raised $5 million from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Founder Dalton Caldwell also started social music site imeem and subsequently sold that company to MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) a year ago.…

Samsung is getting ready to combine both state-of-the-art mobile phone design with an entire content strategy in recognition that in order to remain the U.S.‘s largest handset maker you can no longer rely on hardware alone to stand out of the crowd. To that end, it has created partnerships with…

This time it is Facebook that allowing developers to integrate social networking into their Android applications. Last week, it was MySpace that released a software developer tool kit. Facebook made the announcement on their blog today, saying that their SDK—which already supported iPhone and mobile websites—is now up to speed…

After some good-natured tangling with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the site’s founder Michael Arrington laid into MySpace (NYSE: NWS) co-presidents Jason Hirschorn and Mike Jones. After (pretending?) to check a call on his cell phone, Arrington began his inquiry by asking pointedly, “So…

MySpace (NYSE: NWS) is enabling thousands of third-party mobile developers to integrate MySpace into their applications, which will let users login into their accounts and update their statuses without leaving the application. The developer kit initially will be available for Google’s Android platform, and is being announced today as part…

Updated: Yesterday, one source familiar with the situation said it could take weeks to wind up a deal for MySpace to pick up Imeem; today, there’s a letter of agreement, as TechCrunch first reported and paidContent has confirmed. It calls for about $1 million in cash, although I’m told the…

Fresh off a $43 million first round of funding, comes news that social gamer Playdom has made its first two acquisitions: Facebook game developer Green Patch and iPhone game developer Trippert Labs. Financial terms were not disclosed. The news was first reported by ISG; Playdom has since issued a release.…

Seattle-based Ontela, which builds software that helps users upload their photos from the phone to their favorite photo-sharing sites, may be close to acquiring Photobucket, which is owned by News Corp.‘s MySpace. TechCrunch reports that a source with knowledge of the deal says that MySpace is in the process of…

Jason Oberfest, the SVP of business development at MySpace, has left the social network, and is joining ngmoco, the developer and publisher for iPhone games,  as its VP of social applications, to lead its “expansion into the social web,” as the company puts it. He will be helping the company…

The success of the “Facebook phone,” built by INQ, has not been lost on either carriers or handset-makers, which are starting to introduce copycats into the market. The beauty of the INQ phone is that it commoly drives three to four times more traffic than smartphones that cost three to…

MySpace has announced two deals with Microsoft: The first is a MySpace application for Windows Mobile handsets, starting on WinMo 6.1 and then broadening its scope—it will be preloaded on Windows Mobile handsets manufactured by LG (SEO: 066570). The second deal involves support for Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, a competitor to…

MySpace announced a number of new appointments today, which we covered on our sister site paidContent.org. As part of that, we learned that Bjorn Laurin has been asked to take on an extended role as Director of MySpace Mobile International. In an internal memo obtained by paidContent, MySpace CEO Chris…

Mobile is big for MySpace, and getting huge—around 15 percent of visitors to MySpace are via its mobile site, which represents a 400 percent increase from a year ago, and MySpace expects half its traffic to come from mobiles in a few years time. The problem is getting some revenue…