Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

Zynga is losing millions of its daily active users, according to data on AllFacebook.com, dug up by John Sweeney of the Facebook & Zynga Blog.

If you go back one month, CityVille had 21.1 million users. Today it's down to 19.7 million.

Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

Microsoft is planning to build an app store into Windows, according to leaked screenshots on a Taiwanese online news forum.

Here's what they posted:

A Microsoft spokesperson refused to comment on the screenshots, and said t...

TechCrunch (Monday)
Why does the American media love Twitter and Facebook so much? According to George Friedman, the author of the New York Times bestselling The Next Decade: Where We’ve Been…and Where We’re Going, it’s because these social media networks reflect Amer...

Techmeme (Monday)

Dan Levine / Reuters:
Winklevoss twins must live with Facebook deal  —  (Reuters) - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cannot back out of a settlement with social networking giant Facebook over claims that company founder Mark Zuckerberg...

GigaOm (Monday)
Reports from Chinese sources say that Facebook is in talks with local search giant Baidu to create a social network in China. But will Facebook be able to live with the kinds of things it will have to do in order to appease China's totalitarian government?

Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

The next iOS update, version 4.3.2, will fix problems the with the Verizon iPad 2 and reported FaceTime glitches.

Since the last update, Verizon iPad 2 owners have complained that they could not connect to 3G. There have also been reports ...