Looking at the dizzying pace of announcements, acquisitions and new initiatives, you could be forgiven for wondering when Facebook employees will sit back and take a break. Quite the contrary, one of the mottoes floating around the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., offices is that Facebook is only 1 percent through its “journey.” The company has …

Facebook’s search technology is coming to mobile devices this week. Facebook Facebook’s search is going mobile. The social network said Monday it’s going to make its “graph search” technology available over the next week for the Facebook iPhone app, nearly two years after it debuted for desktop computers. Users will be able to search inside posts of their friends, allowing …

A video ad about Candy Crush Soda Saga is turning into one of the most successful efforts on Facebook yet. King.com Go ahead, try to ignore the latest Candy Crush video game. King.com’s “Candy Crush Soda Saga,” the latest entrant in the company’s popular puzzle game series, was officially released earlier this month. People have been inviting one another to …

Facebook’s newest app makes it easier to communicate with the company’s Groups service. Facebook Facebook is continuing to break off features of its website into different apps. The latest effort: a mobile program called Groups. The social-networking giant on Tuesday unveiled its newest app, meant to serve the 700 million people who use its “groups” feature every month to communicate …

Overly promotional messages from Facebook Page owners are getting filtered out. Jason Cipriani/CNET Want to promote something on Facebook? Buy an ad. That’s the logical conclusion for businesses after the social network said it will reduce the number of “promotional” messages showing up in users’ information streams, known as News Feeds. Companies that previously sent advertisements from their free Facebook …

Overwatch is an ambitious new project from Blizzard, and its first shooter game. Blizzard Entertainment ANAHEIM, Calif. — World of Warcraft is so last decade. Activision’s Blizzard unit, makers of the popular Internet fantasy adventure game, on Friday unveiled Overwatch, its first new franchise in 17 years. Blizzard said it developed the game to be different from any other it’s …

Warlords of Draenor is the fifth new storyline created for World of Warcraft. It launches Nov. 13. Blizzard Entertainment World of Warcraft is already one of the world’s most successful games. Now it’s time for a second act. That, at least, is Activision Blizzard’s challenge on the eve of BlizzCon, a gathering of its most ardent fans who travel to …

Now playing: Watch this: Guess who’s discovered the joys of Candy Crush — ex-Sony… 2:37 A half-year after Jack Tretton stepped down as head of Sony’s PlayStation division in America, he has time to do something he didn’t have a chance to before: play Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans. To devout PlayStation fans, this could be considered a …

Twitter’s mobile user base is large and growing — but not enough to suit investors. The social-networking giant reported increased user growth and usage for its third quarter, as well as a profit for the second straight quarter, but the standout metric was from mobile devices. The company said that 80 percent of users who log in at least once …

Snapchat’s logo is a ghost, a reference to how messages on its service disappear. Snapchat Snapchat’s taking the plunge. The social network, known for messages users send to one another that disappear after they’re viewed, said it will begin displaying advertisements in its app. Ads will be inserted into the list of recent messages a customer receives, and they can …