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Facebook expanded its App Center access to more countries today, adding Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey to its list.

The additions are part of Facebook's plans to increase the center's global reach, as 80 percent of the social network's users live outside of the U.S. and Canada.

In addition to getting access to apps, users will now see suggested apps tailored to them based on location. These include apps like the BBC Sport for those in the UK, Deezer for France, Terra for Brazil, and EyEm for Germany, according to Facebook.

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Facebook said today that it has expanded the availability of its App Center store to several more countries.

The App Center will appear as a bookmark on users' Facebook home page and mobile apps in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K.

The App Center is Facebook's attempt to drive its ecosystem of applications of games and other services on the social network, keeping users glued to its site even longer. The company is also increasingly reliant on these apps for revenue, taking a cut of any money these apps generate. … Read more

Are there too many app stores out there? Surprisingly, maybe not.

Facebook is the latest entrant into the increasingly crowded world of app stores with its App Center, which got its formal debut Thursday.

My initial reaction: another app store? Really?

Our lives are already inundated with several app stores. Of course, there's Apple's App Store and iTunes, and Google Play on Android. Microsoft has an app store for Windows and Windows Phone. The carriers offer their own stores, as do handset manufacturers such as Research In Motion (BlackBerry App World) and the Nokia Store.

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In today's show, we look into the Apple crystal ball, get hit with more apps and save up for new games:

Apple will be highlighting new products at its annual Developer's Conference Monday. Expect computers to get Intel's new processors, and we'll likely hear about new 3D maps on iOS 6 and other mobile system upgrades.

Some have said laptops could get retina display, which is found on iPhones and iPads. That seemed pretty improbably, until recently. An application for Macs has been updated to support retina graphics. That raised a few eyebrows.

The presentation kicks … Read more

Facebook's App Center has arrived, and it's got more than 600 apps in tow, including big hitters like Pinterest, Draw Something, Nike+, Path, and Ghost Recon. Let's take a look at how it all works.

The first thing you should know is that App Center is not a Facebook marketplace akin to Google Play or Apple's App Store. Rather, it's a hub for discovering new and interesting apps based on your Facebook activity and your friends' activity. In fact, whenever App Center recommends a mobile app, it actually links out to Google Play and iTunes … Read more

Facebook tonight unveiled its mobile App Center as it amps up its efforts to improve its mobile business.

The new app center, the company's first big announcement since its IPO, went live tonight with more than 600 apps, including Nike+ GPS, Ubisoft Ghost Recon Commander, Stitcher Radio, Draw Something, and Pinterest.

"The app center represents a new way for users to discover social applications," said Douglas Purdy, Facebook's director of developer products, who showed off the App Center at a launch party in San Francisco. Plus, he says, it gives developers a way to reach Facebook'… Read more

The Facebook App Center is live on an iPhone -- somewhere.

Facebook said it is testing its new App Center feature with some users, after screenshots of the service showed up on TechCrunch.

"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.

According to the report, TechCruch received a screenshot from an iPhone-using reader who is seeing it live already.

The new feature was expected to go live soon, possibly tonight at … Read more

Facebook isn't pressing the panic button as its stock price dipped below $30 this week, but investors are not showing much love for the company.

They want to know soon whether the honeymooning Mark Zuckerberg can turn Facebook's massive pool of personal data, and billions of user interactions per day, into a super-profitable business, like Google or Apple.

Zuckerberg seems to have a different near-term agenda, following Jeff Bezos' Amazon school of management -- attain dominant market share before profits. The formula is to focus on creating an extraordinary customer experience and sign up a few billion users, … Read more

With mobile as Facebook's financial Achilles heel, the company continues to drum up hype around its forthcoming App Center for mobile apps. The company announced today that it is making it easier for developers to place their apps on Facebook and is also helping users install apps via a mobile device or computer.

"Facebook sends over 160 million people to mobile apps each month through news feed and timeline," Facebook software engineer Brent Goldman wrote in a blog post today. "Soon, with the App Center, it will be easier than ever to drive mobile app installs … Read more