After the launch of Facebook Home for select Android phones last week, Facebook recently updated its iOS app (version 6.0) to provide some new features to iPhone users. The two new features with the update are Chat Heads and revamped News Feed. Facebook Home was Facebook’s major foray into the mobile experience. With the launch of Facebook Home, Android users would be immersed in a complete Facebook experience every time they used their phones. Unfortunately, for iPhone users, Facebook Home was never launched for iOS. However, with Facebook’s latest iOS update, we can see some features from Facebook Home seeping… (continue reading)

For the past several months, Tim McDougall and I have been heavily involved in pursing interests in the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids entrepreneurial and start-up community that align with the core values of Fusionfarm. Our fundamental purpose at Fusionfarm is to further develop non-news related revenue sources at a local media company by solving problems for local businesses. (You can read more about that here.) Within that, we want to be a partner, for example, to start-up businesses doing great things in our community where both entities can bring value to the relationship. One such company is Koala Pay…. (continue reading)