It looks like Facebook has just acquired mobile video and image app developer Digital Staircase , according to a blog post on the startup’s site. We’ve embedded the blog post below and emailed Facebook for confirmation. Digital Staircase has developed a number of apps for video recording, image editing and more.

The fashion industry lends itself particularly well to Facebook – the platform’s most prolific (and engaged) demographic is 18 to 34 year-old females – and many of Facebook’s most popular Pages come from this sector. Fashion by definition strives to be up-to-the-minute and ‘in’, and this, plus the strong use of color and powerful visuals by brands in this field, mean that a well-managed Facebook Page can be a very powerful tool in the digital marketer’s arsenal. In this week’s Facebook Marketing Showcase we’ll be looking at some of the most popular clothing brands on Facebook.

We’ve grabbed some footage of the Nook Tablet in the flesh and it was interesting to see how responsive and speedy the device was, especially when compared to the Nook Color. This is a full multimedia tablet with plenty of power for video and rich content and everything sped by without much lag or stuttering

Last week we broke the news that Bandwidth.com was launching a disruptive mobile carrier called Republic Wireless . The service will use special handsets that take advantage of Wifi networks whenever possible, and will fallback to a ‘normal’ cellular connection whenever Wifi isn’t available.

To many a casual Facebooker, Facebook is all about the games. From riveting titles like “Feed your fish so they don’t die” to the action-packed adventure “Growing fake plants in virtual dirt”, Facebook games have captured the hearts and minds of the massive casual audience that so many others have failed to grasp

Charlie Rose interviews Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg tonight on his show . In the preview video above, he tried to get them to talk about what looks like a “flat out war” between Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon “for the future.” Zuckerberg says, “People like to talk about war.” While he admits there is competition, he doesn’t think one company will “win all the stuff.” But then he can’t help himself and makes a dig at Google, which is “trying to build their little version of Facebook.” In the full transcript of the interview below, Zuckerberg and Sandberg talk why they want to IPO (to attract and retain talent), social media’s role on political revolutions (“overblown”), and how even at its current size Facebook is still “focused on doing one thing incredibly well.” Well into the interview, Zuckerberg talks about Steve Jobs and the quote in Walter Isaacson’s biography about him : Mark Zuckerberg: There is this quote I think in the book that just came out about him where, I mean, it’s – Charlie Rose: The Walter Isaacson book.

Panasonic was one of the first strong competitors in the micro four-thirds camera arena, and we’ve been waiting on the next iteration of the G-series cameras for months. They’ve finally announced the GX1 , aimed much more at enthusiasts than the simplified GF2 and GF3 .

Samsung can’t be too pleased about this.

Kevin Rose’s mobile lab, Milk , has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, First Round Capital, and True Ventures.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $250,000 to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events, the dedicated education-focused vertical within the non-profit. The  Startup Weekend organization, which is supported by the Kauffman Foundation and the social learning startup Grockit , offers intense 54-hour events where entrepreneurs come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. The EDU vertical within Startup Weekend was officially launched in September, and kicked off its launch with events in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington D.C.