Mark Zuckerberg did have a contract with the New York man who is suing him and who claims that he is entitled to own 84 percent of Facebook, a company lawyer said.
But the lawyer is “unsure” of whether it …
Real-time search engine OneRiot is adding the full feed of data from Google’s Buzz social sharing service to its results.
This announcement comes on top of its recent addition of Facebook’s “firehose,” a real-time feed of every publicly shared status …
Pixazza, a company that can take static images and enrich them with live links to products, has raised $12 million in a second round led by Shasta Ventures. Earlier investors, including Google’s new venture arm, also participated in the round. …
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz seems to remember that the company’s beginnings had a lot more work and a lot less sex than the recently released trailer for David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network” depicts.
Moskovitz, who is now …
Google has acquired Benchmark-backed Metaweb to improve the structure in its search results.
Over the past few years, Google has evolved beyond the “10 blue links” paradigm (where search results delivered only simple links) and begun breaking out specialty news, …
The full trailer for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher’s film on the origins of Facebook is out.
Unlike the earlier teasers, which were rather apocalyptic, this one features real footage from the film and is set to the …
Twitter’s new flash deal service, EarlyBird, kicked off today with an inaugural deal from Walt Disney Co. for a free ticket to see its latest film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
The new service gives Twitter yet another revenue stream on top …
Evernote, a Mountain View-based startup devoted to helping people remember everything, is maturing as a platform with the launch of an app store today.
Called Trunk, the store has about 100 apps or add-ons from 67 companies, covering everything from …
Facebook is going to go beyond rolling out standalone applications for iPhones, Google Android devices or feature phones and start considering itself a platform for developers to distribute mobile apps with.
“Where we’re going from here is a platform strategy. …
John Ellis, director of software and services for Motorola, said the handset manufacturer was happy with its big bet on Google’s Android platform.
“We doubled down on our bets with Google. We’re happy about it. Sanjay is raving about it,” …
Help-desk software maker Zendesk has launched a way for businesses to feed tweets through their customer support system. Twitter has long been used to manage customer complaints by small businesses and tech startups, which make up a big part of …
Involver, a social media startup that helps brands manage their online communities, has launched a new set of marketing tools for companies to track how their following is growing. Marketers can also watch constantly updated analytics and see sentiment change.…
A breakout hit for real-world mobile payments in the U.S. is still a year or two off, despite the emergence of superphones and rich ecosystems with hundreds of thousands of apps, said panelists at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat2010 conference today.
While there …
Twitter’s most popular client, Tweetdeck, is set to make a big revenue push this year and says its desktop app has been downloaded 15 million times.
The company’s chief executive Iain Dodsworth pointed out that one of the big trends …
Maybe all diplomacy should be conducted this way — directly on webcam and out in public.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron followed up on their meeting in London last month with a video chat …
Google won a small victory today by having its license to operate in China renewed, stalling a shutdown of the site for now. But it still appears to be losing the war.
Google made a small change last week that …
Katie Jacobs Stanton, an early Googler who went on to serve in the White House and the State Department’s office of innovation, is joining Twitter to manage its business and international strategy.
She announced it by tweet:
“Today’s my last …
Facebook is shuttering its virtual goods store after three years and is focusing on building out its Credits online payments system. The Credits system will give third-party companies who run games and other applications on Facebook a uniform currency for …
Be careful about stepping on religious taboos when entering a foreign market. Nearly two months after a Pakistani court temporarily banned social network Facebook because it didn’t take down an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” Facebook Page, a clone called BuddyFlick …
Facebook is adding another talent acquisition to the mix. It has acquired Nextstop, a San Francisco-based startup for recommending things to do or places to go.
“This was a difficult decision for us,” the company said in a statement. “We …
