Facebook CTO Brett Taylor is leaving the company after three years to start his own company. Taylor’s departure, first reported in AllThingsD, comes barely a month after the social networking giant went public and amid continuing investor concern about the company’s future revenue growth. Taylor’s oversight of two key areas at Facebook—its developer platform and mobile—will be assumed by two other Facebook executives--Mike Vernal and Cory Ondreijka—according to the report. Vernal joined the company from Facebook in 2008, while Ondreijka came through the 2010 acquisition of startup Walletin. Taylor, who founded FriendFeed, acquired by Facebook in 2009, didn’t disclose …

Facebook has begun allowing app developers to find out what devices their users have in order to optimize apps and games accordingly. Using the Graph API (application programming interface), developers can access a list of device a user has connected to Facebook. “Using this information, you can improve the mobile app or game experience for users in many ways, such as prompting a web user with an iPhone to install your native app or offering a user to invite their friends with devices supported by your mobile app,” stated a post on Facebook’s Developer blog. Separately, the company also …

Mobile startup accelerator Tandem Capital has raised a $32 million fund from investors including Verifone CEO Doug Bergeron, Google founding board member Ram Shriram, Playdom founder Rick Thompson and other executives and organizations. Silicon Valley-based Tandem aims to nurture mobile startups by providing $200,000 in funding along with free workspace and daily interaction with a team of experts in business development, product design, marketing, and other disciplines. Among Tandem portfolio companies is PlayHaven, a monetization platform for mobile games integrated with 1,500 titles, and BitRhymes, a cross-platform casino game with over 2 million active users. Another Tandem-backed company, ZumoDrive …

Macy's has put its estimated $1.5 billion media agency assignment into review. The incumbent is WPP's MEC, which won the account in 2007. "As normal practice of periodic agency reviews, Macy's is conducting a review of its media account currently handled by MEC," a Macy's spokeswoman told Adage.com, which first reported the news on Wednesday. Creative work, which is handled by MEC sibling JWT is not part of the review. Macy's has hired Joanne Davis Consulting to assist with the media agency review.

Sometimes it feels like a ghost town on Google+. So, if you're looking for someone to hangout with or follow, The Next Web published an archive of shared Google+ circles. The list of shared circles in Google Docs runs the gamut from googlers to entertainment to education to games. It's a massive spreadsheet.

Online coupon provider RetailMeNot.com has introduced a new couponing app for the iPhone that allows users to get discounts when shopping online or in brick-and-mortar stores. People can use the free app to browse top coupons, popular stores, daily “Hot Deals” and product categories. It also includes a drag-and-drop feature to enter coupon codes for redemption and the ability to save coupons for later use. In stores, most app users show a cashier their phone at checkout and the person will input the code to redeem the coupon. In other cases, people will be able to scan …

Brian Terkelsen has been named CEO of New York-based MediaVest USA, effective immediately. Terkelsen will report to Laura Desmond, global CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group, the Publicis Groupe media agency network. Terkelsen succeeds Bill Tucker, who has been appointed President, Global Client Operations, Starcom MediaVest Group, overseeing some of the network's growing roster of new multinational clients. Terkelsen began his SMG career with MediaVest in 2003 to build the agency's branded content practice which evolved into SMG LiquidThread in 2010. He has served as President of LiquidThread since then, growing it fivefold globally and evolving it into a digitally-led content …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to publish an applied list of names on Wednesday, June 13, from London. The list contains a list of companies and organizations that have applied for general top level domains (gTLDs). Can't make it to London? The event will stream live from www.icann.org.

The sixth annual TV of Tomorrow Show, hosted by InteractiveTV Today, will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on June 12 and 13. The TV of Tomorrow Show focuses exclusively on the delivery of interactive TV on multiple platforms such as cable, satellite, tablets, Web, mobile, game consoles, and more. There will be over 150 highly qualified speakers at the event. The highlight speaker is Tony Werner, EVP and CTO of Comcast Cable. "He is one of the most important CTOs in the world," said Tracy Swedlow, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, and Executive Producer of …

Asia Pacific "media technology platform" Komli Media this morning announced a $39 million round of funding, its largest yet. Norwest Venture Partners led the round Other investors included Nexus Venture Partners, Helion Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Western Technology Investment. Komli has raised a total of $62 million to date, and said the funds would be used to invest in its "core media technology platforms" and to expand its presence across the Asia Pacific region.