Despite reports that social readers are “all collapsing,” an analysis of monthly and daily active users of Facebook-integrated social news applications shows no clear trends in growth or decline across the board. We looked at 12 media sites and apps that integrate Open Graph to allow users to automatically share their reading and viewing activity with friends, and have concluded there is no single trend affecting these apps the same way. The Huffington Post ‘s web and mobile integration, for example, continues to steadily gain new monthly active users

EA’s big shift toward treating games as services instead of packaged goods is going to mean restructuring this year. Chief executive John Riccitiello said in today’s earnings call that there will be some layoffs as the company increases production of online, mobile, and social games.

The last time the Honeywell-Nest legal scuffle appeared on our radar, upstart Nest had just lawyered up (with Apple’s former Chief Patent Counsel no less) and offered up their counterclaims to the original patent infringement suit Honeywell filed this past February . With a new filing today though, it seems as though the legal battle between the David and the Goliath of thoughtful thermostats is heating up

No, Facebook news reader apps aren’t declining because  users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing. The user loss is likely due to the transition to  “trending articles” , a new way of surfacing recently read articles in the news feed that Facebook is testing. Previously, Facebook had been driving huge numbers of installs and re-engagements to news reader apps with a “recently read articles” box that would often appear at the top of the news feed.

The Avengers can add another record to its tally — it represents the most opening weekend tickets sold in Fandango history, and a new record for mobile ticket sales.

EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes it easy for you to find out where your friends are and lets you set up a meeting with them. Last September, EchoEcho raised $750,000 from Google Ventures , UK-based venture firm PROfounders and Don Dodge

If you’re an event organizer selling tickets through Eventbrite , it’s about to get easier to find sponsors, thanks to integration with a startup called SponsorHub .

EA shares slipped 9.5 percent in after-hours trading to $13.70 as the company said it expected losses of 40 to 45 cents a share for the next quarter. It said it expects to make $4.1 billion for the year and will lose 16 to 36 cents a share, on a non-GAAP basis

We’re sitting in a conference at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park watching Disrupt companies rehearse and it’s reminding me, Disrupt NYC is almost here! (Also, I think I just stole somebody’s food.) Other than the fact that I love and miss New York, I am really psyched about this the third annual NYC Disrupt; We’ve already announced many amazing speakers and judges , and today we are announcing a few more rock stars on our speaker lineup. We are pleased to announce Tumblr’s David Karp, Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti, and Churchkey’s Adrian Grenier (yes the Entourage guy), Justin Hawkins and Ryan Soward.

It’s hard to find a live morning show or sports event coverage on TV these days that doesn’t feature tweets or Facebook comments from viewers. For most programs, though, getting those messages on air is actually more difficult than it seems and often involves custom software and expensive hardware. Vidpresso , which officially launches today, offers TV stations a far easier solution