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I sat down with Jude Gomila co-founder of Heyzap to talk all things social gaming and asked him this thoughts on building a company in the UK versus Silicon Valley. Social gaming is a huge area of growth in the tech industry and whilst companies like Zynga are set on building games for platforms like Facebook, Heyzap is bringing social gaming outside of Facebook. Much like the Facebook Open Graph enables you to see what your friends are liking or reading outside of Facebook, Heyzap enables you to play social games with your friends outside of Facebook....

Back in April, wereportedthat the controversial .XXX top-level domains (TLDs) had been added to the root nameservers, in preparation for what’s set to be a massive land-grab for adult-themed domain names. The first .XXX sites are expected to be launched onSeptember 7th. In preparation for D-Day (or XXX-Day),ICM Registry– the organization responsible for managing the .XXX domain name service – has entered into a multi-million dollar deal with content classification and certification specialistMetaCert, to label every website issued under ....

In December of last year,Fabulis, a social network for gay men turned intoFab.com, a daily deals site for gay men. Now just four months later, Jason Goldberg, Fab’s CEO is turning the ship in yet another direction. Goldberg wants the new Fab to be a top destination for quality designed objects at below retails prices. With Fabulis, Goldberg thought he could create a new service for the gay community to better enable advertisers and marketers to get in touch with gay consumers....

The ROI of social media for businesses is often discussed, but establishing an answer has never been easy. But Hitwise, the “leader in online competitive intelligence”, has arrived at a very precise formula for establishing the value of Facebook fans. With nearly 700m users, Facebook is a behemoth – businesses shouldn’t ignore the potential value of tapping into such a large userbase. So how much, exactly,isa Facebook fan worth? Well, Hitwise has leveraged its data sets and shown that 1 Facebook fan is apparentlyequalto 20 additional visits to a retailer’s website over the course of a year....

According to the latest data from the German Association of Automotive industry (VDA) and Schimdt Automotive Research, Germany has reached an impressive milestone. For the first time, one in five cars produced in the country are now plug-ins! During March,74,000 of the total 373,900passenger cars produced were xEVs, meaning all vehicles capable of charging with an external cable (BEVs, PHEVs). In fact, BEV and PHEVs scored their highest production record of 20%, after maintaining a share between 15 to nearly 20% for five consecutive months....