As Facebook gets ready for its monster IPO, which will likely value the company at more than $100 billion, I thought it would be valuable to take a look at some of the critical product decisions that have led to …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Facebook is acquiring Instagram for about $1 billion in cash and Facebook stock.
The photo-sharing startup recently passed 30 million members. Particularly since picking up a slew of new users with its Android app …
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If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can. Pinterest is the first social network that’s delivering not only lots of traffic but also real …
Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies.
For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in …
A security hole recently discovered in Facebook’s iOS and Android apps has now been found in Dropbox’s iOS app as well. The flaw allows anyone with physical access to your phone to copy your login credentials — because, get this…
As if there was ever any doubt that the “pin” is winning, a new report from Experian says Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the U.S., based on number of visits, surpassed only by Facebook and …
Apple is already much more valuable than rival tech company Google by market cap, but for the first time, it surpassed Google’s share price today, closing at $633.68 a share to Google’s $632.32.
Apple’s ascent over Google in share price …
In preparation for its upcoming IPO, Facebook has chosen to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol “FB,” according to the New York Times.
Facebook will join many other high-profile tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, …
Ultraviolet, a new women’s rights group, today launched a campaign demanding that Facebook appoint at least one woman to its board before the company goes public.
While Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most prominent “faces” of the …
First, it was the lifestyle apps. Then, it was the media apps. Now, video apps are reporting huge growth numbers from launching Timeline-friendly features for Facebook.
Today, Facebook issued some interesting stats from a slew of video companies, including heavy …
The cable network known for its hair-pulling, table-turning, housewife-humiliating reality lineup is zooming its lens on Silicon Valley with a reality series co-produced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister.
Randi Zuckerberg, Zuck’s older sister and former Facebooker, is an executive …
It’s raining pink slips at Yahoo today, as the iconic tech company announced it was laying off 2,000 employees — or 14 percent of its total workforce — as part of a massive restructuring effort.
Yahoo has suffered a great …
If simple common sense can’t curb energy usage, perhaps a little peer pressure from Facebook friends will do the trick.
Facebook has joined forces with energy efficiency startup Opower and the National Resources Defense Council to release a social energy …
Yahoo’s popular photo-sharing community Flickr has been called out as one of the primary properties infringing on Facebook patents in the social network’s counterclaim, which it filed Tuesday.
Facebook responded to a March patent suit brought against it by …
Not one to be bullied by Sunnyvale sourpuss Yahoo, Facebook is fighting fire with fire.
The social network, valued at $104 billion in a recent private auction, filed counterclaims to a Yahoo patent lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that its Valley foe …
Today, Facebook has open-sourced Ringmark, its new test suite for mobile device manufacturers.
Ringmark, which was announced just a few weeks ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is designed to run “tests of core functionality that web developers need …
Manta, a website that connects customers and small businesses with company profiles, just raised $44 million. The company helps small businesses gain visibility and attract new customers, as well as create a community of small business owners.
Think of Manta …
A teacher’s aid who refused to give her school system access to her private Facebook account is now filing a lawsuit against her employer, according to a report from local Michigan news station WSBT.
The news follows a flurry of …
Facebook has updated its popular iPad app with much-welcome support for the new iPad’s Retina display and needed fixes like the ability to sign out of chat.
After a seriously long wait, Facebook finally released its Apple iPad app to …
Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in getting downloads on iOS too, with more than 11 million downloads of Diamond Dash in four months.…
