Some closure on the story of how Yandex — the Russian search giant — built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and then found Facebook blocking its service within hours of launching. Today Yandex said that after discussions with the social network, Facebook has finally, terminally said that the app violates its Platform Policies, and so it will not reinstate the ability to use Facebook’s Graph API. As a result, Yandex is planning to pulll the app from the app store and put it on hold for now. The full statement from Yandex: ... Read More