Bruce Houghton on 2012.02.21 Paris and San Francisco based startup Fanzy, a Facebook app that rewards fans for spreading the word and helps brands to attract social influencers, has raised $500,000 in additional seed financing. The financing brings Fanzy’s total capital raised to approximately $850,000. Fanzy’s investors include founder and CEO of media buying agency [...]

SDBJ.com Tuesday, February 21, 2012 PhotoBin, a San Diego-based business that creates digital images from old photos, negatives and slides, is trying to capitalize on one of Facebook’s most recent initiatives. PhotoBin’s offer: It will scan 200 photos for $19.99, instead of its usual $55 price, to help people build their Facebook timelines. Facebook introduced [...]

4-traders.com 02/21/2012 | 02:12pm Air Transat continues to celebrate having reached an impressive 100,000 fans on Facebook. Following the surprise trip giveaways for both “Super Fans”, Air Transat invites its supporters to participate in a month-long contest. As a reminder, every week for four weeks, fans of the Air Transat Facebook page will be asked [...]

By Jonathan Gonzalez |  Monday, Feb 20, 2012  |  Updated 2:54 PM PST Reagan “didn’t take no crap from nobody.” “All presidents look out for the wealthy.” “As a joke I was going to say Millard Fillmore, but I like Carter as a person– just a gentle soul.” In honor of Presidents Day — officially [...]

By: Russ Burlingame on February 16, 2012 Marvel Comics announced in a press release today that their official Facebook fan page had exceeded 3 million fans. It’s an accomplishment they’ve been celebrating all day with exclusive reveals at the site as well as a Twitter hashtag, #Marvel3Mill. The site just exceeded 2 million back in [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald – February 16, 2012 – 4:28PM Grocery stores are making up for lost time in engaging customers on Facebook, with customer interaction on the site growing faster than for any other category of Australian business, a new snapshot shows. In the three weeks to the end of January, retail grocery and [...]

Qsrweb February 16, 2012 Seattle’s Best Coffee is inviting its Facebook fans to play the “Create Your Deliciousness” game and experiment with their coffee by adding ingredients such as birthday cake, peanut butter puffs, candy canes, pretzels and cotton candy. The inspiration from the game comes from a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research for [...]