Facebook loves local: 2B small biz connections, 645M weekly views, 13M weekly comments

Facebook loves local business, apparently. And local business loves Facebook.

News Feed’s design finally catches up with Timeline

Facebook is announcing the latest changes to its News Feed today, and we're reporting live from its headquarters. Check out this post for live updates on what you can expect to see on your Facebook soon.

Yandex releases social search app, tries to dodge future bullets from Facebook

Yandex, a Russian search engine, released a new social search app that lets you ask questions like, "What ice cream shops do my friends like?" But in order to escape any Facebook wrath, the company is claiming the app is a "personal assistant."

Why, why, why did you have to call it ‘Graph Search,’ Facebook?

And here I thought Google was supposed to be the geeky company.

Do this now, before Facebook’s Graph Search embarrasses you

Can you opt-out of Facebook's Graph Search? Who can see my content? How can I protect myself? We answer your questions about privacy in Facebook's new search function.

Facebook’s new Graph Search and Google: This means war

Facebook's new Graph Search is the first service that has the potential to eat Google's lunch.

Hands On: Facebook’s Graph Search is handy, for now

We played with Facebook's new Graph Search for ourselves. Check out how it works and what it looks like before it's released to the public.

Small business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new graph search

Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again.

Yelp’s stock tanks after Facebook’s Graph Search debut

Yelp's stock price dropped an alarming 8 percent following the announcement of Facebook's Graph Search.

Now Facebook is competing with everyone in local search, including Apple and Google

What it's really going to do is open up the vast hoard of Facebook data and eat the lunch of a thousand large and small companies that make money by aggregating and rating what people do and where they go.