A year after IPO, Facebook still down 30% (but the future is bright)

A year ago today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg "rang the bell" to open trading in one of the most hotly-anticipated initial public offerings in history as Facebook hit the stock market. And promptly went splat.

Facebook’s coming video ads run the risk of ‘MySpacing’ the world’s most popular social network

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.

41 of the Fortune 500 companies are tech companies (and here they are)

Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.

Notable this year …

2M Facebook fans better than Super Bowl ad, celeb endorsement … or Twitter followers

Facebook fans are the holy grail of small business, according to a recent study by Staples.

Why settle for Facebook Home when you can have Twitter Home, too?

So. Facebook Home doesn't work on your particular Android device. And you've seen that Facebook Home has an abysmal 2.2 average rating -- more than half of Facebook Home users rate it one single solitary lonely star.

What's a social news Android addict to do?

Facebook fans just went up in value: BMW fans are worth $1,613, Starbucks $177, and Coke $70

Facebook fans who are worth over $1,600? How does that work?

Google, not Facebook, will win the true war for likes, Forrester says

"The database of affinity is Facebook's birthright," Forrester Analyst Nate Elliott says. "And it's going to blow it.

Mark Zuckerberg’s hilarious Facebook Home intro video

Facebook Home is so riveting, even Facebook employees can't pay attention to anything but what their friends are doing. Even when their CEO is giving them a pep talk.

Mark Zuckerberg: The great thing about Android is that it’s so open (unlike iOS)

Facebook Home is in the house, and it's taking over Android. But what about Apple's iOS?

The mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps

Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps.

Facebook now posting retargeted ads right in the middle of your beautiful new news feed

Just a few weeks after Facebook gave us the beautiful new uncluttered news feed, the social network is starting a test to introduce Facebook Exchange ads right in the middle of that wonderful simplicity.

Facebook data scientist: Jobseekers with strong social ties online 5X more likely to find work

Being active on Facebook, it appears, actually can get you that new job.

Facebook’s new actions let you run, walk, and read — and make Facebook more money

Facebook's database of you, your friends, and the entire world is going grow as a result, as will the degree of intelligence built into the social network. And yes, so will Facebook's monetization options.

Here are some things you’re probably going to hate about the new Facebook News Feed

The new Facebook News Feed is here, and I hate it already, I think.