Top 25 Facebook Pages April 2013 + MORE

Burner brought some hot privacy features to the iPhone last year with its disposable phone number service, and now that fire has spread to Android.
Developer Ad Hoc Labs released the new app on Google Play today with a new free-to-download model that makes both the Android and iPhone apps free with an offer for one sample burner number that lasts for 24 hours, five minutes of talk time or 15 text messages…

Hon Hai Precision Technology, the electronics manufacturer perhaps better known to consumers as Foxconn, saw its sales for the first quarter decline by 19% year-over-year, according to Reuters, in what may be a bad omen for sales of Apple’s iPhone.
Reuters reports that Foxconn’s sales dipped to $26.96 billion in the March quarter from about $33 billion in the previous quarter and $33…

Facebook’s hold on the social login market could be decreasing as more consumers sign into third-party sites with Google, Twitter and other accounts, according to a study by Janrain.
Janrain offers a social login widget that websites can use to give users options for signing in with Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo or more than two dozen other services…

Facebook has established new restrictions for how many event invites a user can send at one time and how many pending invites an event can have, according to users who are seeing a notification preventing them from inviting more friends.
The Facebook Help Center confirms that users cannot send more than 100 event invites at a time and an event can only have 300 pending invites at once…

Usually when a new business is about to open, especially in the competitive restaurant world, social media is ablaze with updates, news, and rumors. That may be the norm, but is it always the best strategy?
Restaurant owner Alexander Brunacci opened The Peasantry in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood on April 23, 2012…

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Google Play Update Shows the Big Picture (SocialTimes)
Google has announced an update to Google Play that will show bigger images for books, movies and album covers. The change began rolling out to Android smartphones and tablets starting Tuesday…

Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer SHIFT today announced the SHIFT Open Marketing Cloud, a suite of applications from partners covering media buying, community management, social promotions, analytics and more.
The collaboration platform brings together apps from 11 other companies: Aggregate Knowledge, Convertro, Curalate, Expion, Fan Appz, Kenshoo, Moontoast, Offerpop, Optimal Analytics, SocialFlow and The Trade Desk…

One of the most effective – and lucrative – advertising products on Twitter is the Promoted Trend, which allows brands to dominate the Trending Topics on Twitter with a hashtag or phrase that sits right at the top of the list, thus guaranteeing high visibility and, one would assume, clicks…

Two of Facebook’s own fan pages continue to top the list of most popular pages on Facebook in April 2013, followed by mostly entertainment pages.
Bob Marley has fallen out of the Top 25 and Will Smith entered at No. 24 after seeing an acceleration in growth at the start of this month. The rest of the list is mostly the same but with a few place swaps…

If you want to understand the direction Foursquare wants to take its business, look no further than the latest version of its iOS app.
Over the past year Foursquare has transitioned away from being the app of badges and mayorships to an app of location discovery and recommendations. And this shift in emphasis is everywhere in Foursquare 6…

Just a few months ago, Skype competitor Viber previewed voice calling on the BlackBerry platform. Viber is available on a multitude of platforms, including iOS, Windows Phone 8, Bada, S40, Symbian, and the list goes on.
However, BlackBerry represents a good chunk of Viber’s user base (it’s their third largest platform behind iOS and Android), and yet it’s still in the minority of Viber apps that don’t have access to voice calls…