No Notifications?????

I received my Note 2 yesterday and love it so far with an exceptions.

My only real issue is that I dont receive any notifications except for incoming text messages. I have the Yahoo Mail app, ebay, Facebook and my banking app. All are supposed to alert me and none have since getting this phone and installing the apps. The setting on these apps are correct and are supposed to alert me. They all worked fine on my Bionic.

Am I missing some setting on the Note 2 that I can't find?

Thanks,