Facebook has been steadily marching toward the one-billion-user mark. Today the company announced that it is very nearly there, with 955 million active monthly users.
Today’s figure represents a 55 million-user increase since April, when the social network had just …
The social network barely exceeded Wall Street's already-tempered expectations by posting $1.18 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.12 for the second quarter of 2012.
More than just an insta-success, Instagram today announced that it has surpassed 80 million users who are sharing photos with friends via its iPhone and Android apps.
The nearly two-year-old photo-sharing and filtering service, the property of Facebook pending close …
Facebook will try to turn its story around today. In its first earnings report as a public company, it will use a positive second-quarter earnings statement as a way to craft an uplifting tale. Investors, however, may have trouble seeing …
It’s 1941.
Nazi Germany controls basically all of Europe, big chunks of Africa. Its soldiers and military machine are large and in charge and have not yet been seriously challenged. So what does genius Hitler do? He attacks Soviet Russia, …
Facebook’s App Center, the social network’s answer to Google Play and Apple’s iTunes App Store, is finally rolling out to non-English-speaking countries around the world.
“Earlier this month we began accepting submissions for translated app detail pages,” a Facebook rep …
Chief executive Gabe Newell talks about gaming innovations and life at Valve.
Social games are more popular than ever, with new genres emerging, says Facebook's Sarah Brooks.
Ahh, the world is a wonderful place. And truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction.
Mark Zuckerberg, the man who some believe has done more to erode privacy than anyone else, has been awarded his first ever patent … for …
MicroVentures Investment Challenge is a Facebook game pitting notable Internet startups against each other in a fantasy sports-like competition aimed at venture capitalists.
Bubble — what bubble? For all the talk of a funding boom, Bay Area investors are plagued with doubts this summer due to Facebook’s disappointing IPO and the deepening debt crisis in Europe.
The results of the quarterly Silicon Valley …
Social game giant Zynga is looking to get into real-money online gambling, and it's looking for someone to help build the platform for it.
Facebook is making its presence felt in Washington D.C. with an increasingly padded wallet allocated to courting the nation’s lawmakers.
The social network, according to its second quarter lobbying report (see below), spent $960,000 on lobbying expenses from April through …
Come Thursday, Facebook will give Wall Street exactly what it is expecting: a satisfactory earnings report, with second quarter revenue around $1.15 billion and earnings per share of $0.12, according to investment firm Wedbush.
Wedbush modeled Facebook’s Q2 revenue at …
Whoopsie. Proving that it’s always good to dot those i’s and cross those t’s, social media firm TBG Digital has amended a report that originally concluded that Facebook’s mobile ad click-through rate (CTR) is four times that of the mobile …
Facebook acquired Acrylic Software today, which created an iPad and Mac application for organizing your RSS feeds. The company is known for its iOS design prowess, which probably piqued Facebook’s interest more than the app itself.
The team moves to …
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
In a deal worth an estimated $40 million or more, Nasdaq is planning to bail out investors who lost bigtime during Facebook’s disastrous IPO.
Back in May, when Facebook stock first went public, Nasdaq was responsible for some glitches in …
Screenshots surfaced Thursday afternoon suggest that Facebook, in attempt to make its Open Graph platform more of a boon to application developers, is actively experimenting with a potentially more engaging format for app stories posted to members’ New Feeds.
The …
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.
