Facebook has been on a rocket ride to social network dominance. Now we know that it’s making some money from that ride.
The social-networking company made $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, according to the S-1 documents it filed with …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owns 28.2 percent of the company, according to Facebook's just-released IPO S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Facebook's initial public offering is one of the most hyped technology events of the year, and the company is expected to debut on the stock market in May. Its stock ticker symbol will be "FB." The company has not yet named a starting price has yet been named, but Facebook said in the filing that it expects to raise at least $5 billion in the IPO.
If Facebook files its paperwork for an initial public offering this week, as many expect it to do, we’ll be on the road to one of the biggest tech IPOs in recent history.
The offering will probably raise $10 billion …
Google made some sweeping changes to its privacy policies yesterday. It let users know it will be combining data from all of its services, from search to email to photos. This will give Google a much more detailed picture of …
When Mark Zuckerberg speaks, people listen. Wednesday, the celebrity Facebook founder is wielding this power and influence to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act using the best tool at his disposal: the social network he …
BANG! POW! SIMPLIFYING THE USER EXPERIENCE! Steve Jobs is being immortalized yet again, this time in comic book form.
The comic book is titled “Steve Jobs: Founder of Apple and is scheduled to hit Amazon as well as physical newsstands …
Facebook‘s corporate structure is getting a facelift with five new product groups that will report directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg.
“We can confirm that in order to streamline the product development process, we have reorganized our technical teams into product …
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook’s relationship status won’t read “it’s complicated” anymore, since the two companies settled a longstanding privacy suit today.
The social network has often come under fire for its privacy policies, a spark which fully ignited …
With 2011 winding to a close, talk of Facebook’s long-rumored 2012 initial public offering is crescendoing to cacophonous levels. A new report purporting that Facebook is targeting an IPO date between April and June of the upcoming year is adding …
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of the Diaspora social network — which gained recognition for challenging Facebook — died this weekend, the company confirmed Monday.
The official cause of death has not been reported, but CNNMoney has said that it …
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Editor’s note: CNN’s upcoming documentary, Black in America 4, has sparked a heated discussion about race in the tech industry. VentureBeat has asked several black entrepreneurs to contribute their opinions prior to the airing of the show on Sunday November …
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Apple never tried to buy Facebook, and disclosed candid details about his conversations with Steve Jobs, in an exclusive interview with broadcast journalist Charlie Rose.
VentureBeat has obtained the full transcript of …
Set your DVRs: Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will appear in an exclusive, hour-long interview with acclaimed broadcast journalist Charlie Rose, airing Monday night on PBS and Tuesday on Bloomberg TV.
The interview, taped last …
On Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg falls somewhere between the pope and Warren Buffet.
Not bad for a hoodie-wearing college dropout.
Zuckerberg (pictured above onstage with pal Andy Sandberg) is listed …
Paul Ceglia, the man who last year claimed he owned 84 percent of Facebook, has been ordered to return to the U.S. to unearth the one piece of physical evidence that could settle the court case.
Ceglia, who is currently …
Groupon’s first technology product Groupon Now appears to be a stinking dud, according to data released on Sunday. The Groupon Now mobile app chalking up some very dour numbers, according to a new report compiled by Yipit, an industry performance …
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The first time I met Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie, he showed me a magic trick with a deck of cards.
A year later, the 26-year-old was standing on stage (in his typical electric orange sneakers) in front of 350 …
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Facebook’s annual developer conference was packed with news about big changes coming to the social network.
And if past history is any guide, most of you are probably going to be outraged by the changes, at least at first.
According …
Facebook made its power move to capture everything about your life today. In a keynote speech at Facebook’s f8 developer conference today, Facebook CEO executive Mark Zuckerberg talked about how to make the social network indispensable to the recording of …
Facebook today showed off its new Lifestyle Apps, a set of applications for the social network that allow users to share information about their lifestyle activities, such as exercising, cooking, watching TV shows, picking out clothes and more.
The apps …
