Zuckerberg to employees: Stock price drop has been “painful” to watch

Not even the finance-agnostic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg can ignore Facebook's lackluster stock performance.

Huge wave of Facebook shares to hit market starting this week

Less than two weeks after Facebook's stock price hit a low of $20.84 comes the reminder that about two billion more shares will hit the market between now and May, 2013.

Take that, Facebook: New social utility App.net blasts through $500K funding goal

Social sans commerce: here we come.

The new social utility that serial entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell started in response to being, in his words, screwed by Facebook, is live. App.net, which Caldwell ran a Kickstarter-ish campaign to fund, blew through its $500,000 goal and currently sits at $595,150.

Facebook Stories: the future local social news everything

Facebook Stories launched yesterday and my reaction was a kind of "meh." But today I think I completely missed the point. In the fresh light of a new dawn, I think it's nothing less than the future of news.

Nearly 20% of Facebook’s mobile users skip the website altogether

Facebook users are increasingly passing up the company’s ad-laden website for a mobile-only experience, according to new information disclosed by the social network today.

Nearly one in five of Facebook’s 543 million mobile monthly active users (MAUs) — 102 million …

What mobile risk? Facebook says Sponsored Stories in News Feed are working

Mobile. It’s Facebook’s biggest risk as well as its greatest opportunity. The social network tried to stress the latter in its first-ever earnings call by sharing with investors and analysts that it’s now making roughly $500,000 a day from mobile …

Zuckerberg: Building a Facebook phone ‘wouldn’t make much sense for us’

Facebook building a phone “wouldn’t really make much sense for us to do,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the company’s first-ever earnings conference call.

Today, the social networking behemoth posted $1.18 billion in revenue and a net loss of …

Facebook posts small win with $1.18 billion in revenue for Q2

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.

Facebook, do you really need to attack Russia? (Yes, this is a Facebook Phone post)

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, …

Zuck gets his first ever patent — on privacy

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 …

Now where did that Facebook real-time activity ticker go?

Mark Zuckerberg giveth and he taketh away. Facebook users are reporting today that they can no longer see the real-time “Ticker” that describes their friends’ activities on the right side of the Facebook home page.

TechCrunch reported that the disappearance …

The ‘bergs unite: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg becomes board member

Facebook has named chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as its newest board member, settling recent criticisms that the public company doesn’t have a woman on its board.

Sandberg’s appointment to the board of directors has been a long time coming. …

Nerd-on-nerd action: 6 tech founders immortalized in graphic novels

Remember that Steve Jobs comic book? Welp, we got more where that came from.

Bluewater Productions, the team behind Steve Jobs: Co-founder of Apple has just sent us word about a new trio of graphic novels about tech founders. Think …

Aaron Sorkin saw potential “minefield of disappointment” when taking on Steve Jobs movie

Hollywood writer Aaron Sorkin says Steve Jobs was a complicated guy, but knows that he will write the late Apple co-founder as if  he was “making [his] case to god for why [he] should be let into heaven.”

Sorkin, who …

VBWeekly gets a visit from the undead, which is appropriate since we’re talking Facebook

This week’s VBWeekly got a little goofy, while our anchor Jolie O’Dell was traveling to the East Coast. We hit on some serious stories, including more on the Facebook drama unfolding post IPO, and a sexual harassment lawsuit that hit …

Facebook shareholders sue company and its bankers over fishy IPO

Facebook shareholders have filed a class action lawsuit against the social network, as well as underwriting banks including Morgan Stanley, over its first-day trading slide, the law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd announced this morning.

The suit alleges that …

Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO

As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday.

Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the largest …

For Facebook, life ain’t nothin’ but glitches and IPOs

In addition to being one of the largest initial public offerings ever, Facebook’s IPO drew so much interest that the system couldn’t keep up with demand.

Facebook expected to make its public debut at 8 a.m. PT this morning, but …

The Facebook IPO: What it looked like inside the company’s headquarters

Facebook began trading on the public markets for the first time today, and at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., excitement levels were high. Here's a look inside.