Facebook continues to be a Hoover for talent. The social network hired Matt Papakipos, a Google engineering director who oversaw development of Chrome OS, and Jocelyn Goldfein, a seven-year VMWare veteran and vice president, it said today.
“We’ve landed two …
Facebook can be a daunting place for many small businesses. While they dream of reaching some of the social network’s more than 450 million users, they don’t always have the time or money. Enter a new Facebook application, FavRav, that …
Facebook is set to launch its first large Asian office in Indian tech hub Hyderabad within two months, and plans to add 500 employees in the region, according to the Economic Times, an Indian newspaper.
[Update: The social network …
The tide of group buying sites, which mix discounting with viral marketing to make marketing offers more effective, isn’t abating anytime soon. Yipit, a New York-based startup that aggregates deals from about 90 different social buying companies, says four newbies …
Elevation Partners has purchased $120 million worth of Facebook shares, according to a letter to its limited partners. The deal doesn’t mean more money in the bank for Facebook, since Elevation purchased the shares from other shareholders.
TechCrunch reported that …
The trailer for Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s new movie “The Social Network” is out, and Facebook’s PR headache is about to begin.
The teaser is pretty bare and doesn’t include any scenes from the movie — just dialogue and …
Facebook’s recent partnership with PayPal is starting to take shape now that advertisers can use the online payments service to buy ads on the social network. The option is being rolled out today.
Facebook tapped the eBay-owned service to power …
The World Cup has been driving large numbers of status updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter reached a new record in tweets-per-second (jokingly dubbed ‘TPS’ in a riff on the movie “Office Space”) during the Japan-Denmark game. The company saw …
When San Francisco startup Bazaar Labs launched its Miso application in March, the easy shorthand for describing the app was “Foursquare for movies and TV.” In other words, it used the check-in model popularized by location services like Foursquare as …
The 24-year-old French hacker responsible for leaking internal strategy documents to TechCrunch and breaking into celebrity Twitter accounts last summer received a five-month suspended prison sentence.
Given the steeper penalties Francois Cousteix was facing, including two years in prison and …
Coca-Cola’s digital marketing chief said the company was seeing “phenomenal” results from its advertising campaign on Twitter.
In a promising review of the microblogging network’s nascent advertising program, Carol Kruse, a top executive at the beverage company, said that its …
Skimlinks, a U.K.-based startup that tries to make it dead-simple for publishers to earn a cut of every product sale they drive, launched a product that automatically turns all product references in stories into affiliate links.
Publishers and bloggers typically …
Foodily, a stealth startup run by a handful of Yahoo veterans, raised $5 million in a round led by Index Ventures, according to a SEC filing.
Its cofounders include chief executive Andrea Cutright, who held a variety of marketing positions …
Facebook has hired away a White House staffer to be the fifth full-time member of its Washington D.C.-based office. Marne Levine, who is the chief of staff at the White House National Economic Council, is joining the social network as …
Ticketmaster is considered by many to be the Death Star of the online ticketing industry. It’s huge, the default for most ticket buyers, and seemingly impervious to competition. But that hasn’t stopped newer entrants from providing and improving alternatives in …
Twitter settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it “deceived consumers” and didn’t protect their privacy, according to the agency today. The violated users included singer Britney Spears, President Barack Obama, and the account of the Fox News channel. …
Facebook is hoping that the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Attorney General will bear ultimate responsibility for cracking down on rogue apps, according to comments yesterday from the company’s D.C.-based head of public policy Tim Sparapani.
He also said the …
Offerpop, a software development company for social media applications, has launched a new marketing app that lets retailers and brands bolster their Twitter and Facebook profiles for maximum impact. Only the Twitter application is currently available to the public, but …
Twitter and Facebook aren’t about to make nice yet.
The microblogging network released an update that was supposed to let users import their Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections, but its much bigger rival appears to have shut down the feature.…
If you’re not a heavy Flickr user, you might not spot the changes in the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing service’s forthcoming redesign, to which you can opt in now. Click on the screenshot at right to see it full size. The old …
