Ouya looks pretty but lacks killer games so far (preview) + MORE

Vichy is this week’s top gaining health and beauty page for the People Talking About This metric. The page has adopted global pages which explains its rapid growth over the past week with 1.89 million new engagements.
Vichy has over 60 different region pages incorporated into its global page. While it is the Most Talked About page for health and beauty pages this week, it is also the fifth fastest growing talked about page overall this week…

Facebook is adding a new section to users’ About pages on their Timeline that showcases the social games they play.
The games section is similar to the movies, books, TV and music sections launched with the latest profile redesign earlier this month. It displays the games users have recently played and all those that they’ve Liked…

The Bitcoin — the first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency — was introduced on the web in 2009, but interest is bubbling up once again.
Building on the idea that money is essentially a medium for translating value, the Bitcoin uses cryptography (or encrypting digital information to transmit something securely) for its creation and transactions, rather than a central authority…

Facebook revised their cover image policy to be more consistent with the 20% text policy for news feed ad images.
They removed language restricting sales/purchase/price information, call-to-actions, or company websites from being on the cover image.
The policy now simply says:
“All covers are public…

Apple has once again found itself on the receiving end of litigation in China, this time initiated by a state-owned animation studio, reports the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.
According to the Post, Shanghai Animation Film Studio is suing Apple to the tune of 3.3 million yuan (around US$500,000), accusing the Cupertino company of selling its movies in the App Store without proper approval…

Ever go on vacation and your family BEGS you to leave the iPhone at home? You can’t, of course, because you’ll miss all the @mentions and @replies – and we ALL know that witty replies become exponentially less so as the days pass.
Why? Well, it seems like you’re not quick on your feet and that’s a Twitter taboo in the land of snappy comebacks and hashtags…

Earlier this month, Facebook launched a new version of Timeline featuring a one-column design. Although it’s currently limited to Profiles, there was some good news for brands as well in terms of discovery. And today, that good news continues.
In addition to highlighting movies, books, and music, the social network a while back added a new section to peoples’ About pages for games…

Brand Networks today announced that it has been awarded the Insights badge as part of the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers program. The announcement coincides with the company’s debut of bn.insights, a dashboard for marketers to monitor and understand their page, apps and ad analytics.
Brand Networks is one of only two companies accredited in all four PMD badges: Ads, Apps, Insights and Pages…

Facebook will be holding a product announcement at its headquarters next Thursday. Members of the press were given an invitation saying, “Come see our new home on Android.”
We haven’t heard what the product will be, but it could be an overhauled Android app or, more likely, a modified version of the Google-owned mobile operating system…

Klout, purveyor of a social networking influence score, and Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, announced a partnership today that will display a user’s score in response to Bing queries about him or her and will factor in such queries as part of generating his or her score.
It is the first time a social influence rater has tapped a search engine as a social signal…

Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, “that’s so crazy it just might work.” Two years ago, if you’d have told me that an open-source, P2P currency would soon be a thriving, billion-dollar market, I would’ve told you that you were on a lonely bus headed to CrazyTown, U…

Ouya has begun shipping its $99 Android game console to consumers who pre-ordered the system and backed the company’s successful crowdfunding campaign.
The San Francisco company is celebrating the launch with a party Thursday evening near the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The event is the first time the company is inviting the full community of game developers to come out and celebrate the company’s attempt to disrupt the traditional game consoles with free-to-play mobile games on the TV…