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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Germany's largest consumer watchdog group said on Monday that Facebook’s new App Center violates the nation’s privacy laws, and gave the social networking company a deadline to either fix the problem or risk legal action. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV) sent Facebook a ‘cease and desist’ letter alleging the App Center breaches German privacy law by giving away customer data without notifying users....

Facebook’s new App Center is now up and running on a number of iPhones, which the social network says is being used as a trial for its store. "Since we announced the App Center to developers last month, we've been testing it with a small percentage of users. We have no further details to share at this time," a Facebook spokesperson said on Thursday after TechCrunch published several screenshots of the service running on iPhones. The screenshots show the App Center having a similar...

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Adap.tv today introduced its new App Center for video advertising making the process of managing hundreds of brand advertising technologies as easy as managing one. Built on Adap.tv's open platform, the App Center is a centralized place for buyers and sellers to discover, implement and manage best-in-breed brand ad technologies for TV and video from inside the Adap.tv console. As TV and video advertising continue on a path of...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com In what could be perceived as a “Hey! Us too!” move, Facebook joins other tech behemoths Amazon, Apple and Google in launching an app store of their very own, offering apps from all platforms and at all price-points. Labeling it as “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps,”  Facebook’s App Center wants to bring apps to its 900 million users based on friend recommendations. "For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the...