SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook is bringing back F8, its conference for software developers in a bid to get them to create more and better mobile apps for the giant social network.

FiftyThree, which created its own award-winning app entitled Paper in 2012, may take legal action against Facebook for its much-ballyhooed new reader app of the same name.

Using this data, app makers can better target similar audiences with their Facebook ads as well as create customized push notifications for specific audience segments, aimed at increasing engagement.

Game developers still control half of the top 15 spots in the Facebook app developer leaderboard, according to AppData. But the rest of the pack — including the number-two developer — are all ...

Today, Facebook announced new API restrictions for apps. These changes are intended to continue helping developers create apps that the Facebook user base enjoys while also protecting the data and ...

Facebook allows you to create applications through the developer application. From the developer app, you designate and grant Facebook users different app permissions as an administrator, tester ...

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.