Your Facebook news feed is about to become a bit more crowded. Facebook's big announcement on Wednesday evening was the unveiling of 60 new apps that will function with Facebook and let users share more of their lives on the social networking mega-site.

Facebook wants its more than 800 million users to share everything they do with their friends on Facebook and off of it. So Facebook has teamed with more than 60 partners to roll out apps that encourage users to tell...

Announced during a press event in San Francisco earlier today, Facebook has pushed out support for 60 new applications that will allow friends of users to join in on the activity through Facebook. For instance, a Facebook user could be using Foodily to cook a recipe for lemon chicken. If a friend sees that activity within the feed, they can join and try cooking the same recipe. Another example ...

Brazil’s Facebook audience has close to tripled in the past year and engagement on the site has soared. The huge growth spurt has helped the site overtake Google-operated social network Orkut for the first time within the country.

Social media giant Facebook released dozens of new applications to let users catalogue every aspect of their lives, from movies to books to food to fashion, and share them with friends.

Facebook has conducted a study to defend itself from old arguments. In 2010, the social network conducted research to see who people associate most with most on Facebook. Strangely, more than a year later, Facebook has chosen to publish results of the study, which proves that “Facebook isn’t the echo chamber that some might expect” and that users tend to view more information from “friends” they ...

Facebook expanded its platform to enable developers to publish a much wider range of information and actions that people take to the social network.

Joining "likes" on Facebook, the social network has added dozens of new types of posts, including "bought," "read" and "want."

As expected, Facebook tonight launched the first of a new class of applications that will allow people to express more precisely on their Timelines how they?re interacting with an app, a business, or a brand. These so-called Actions, announced at Facebook?s f8 developer conference last September, have been limited so far to just a few ...

Facebook has added more than 60 new partners to its Open Graph, giving users the ability to automatically share information about what they want, love, own, cook, eat, watch, do and visit with their friends.