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.

Facebook’s general counsel leaving the company

Ted Ullyot, general counsel at Facebook, is leaving the social network to take time off, according to AllThingsD.

Facebook confirmed the departure yesterday. Ullyot, 45, will depart in July. The search for his replacement is going to include outside and …

Accel’s Jim Breyer to step down from Facebook board

Facebook has been good for Breyer, who made more than $100 million from his investment.

Robinhood takes a social approach to mastering the stock market

Robinhood launched a mobile app today to guide you through the dangerous woods of stock market investing.

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.

Path 3: The leading private social network gets more personal, more human, and more money

Path has always taken a different ... trail. So it's no surprise that the private social network is laying down new tracks in an attempt to make digital communication more human.

Facebook changes News Feed forever — but for the better?

What most are hoping for is a massive change that would toy with Facebook's long-cultivated revenue streams and tinker with one of its most precious pieces of IP: The News Feed algorithm.

OpenTable now competing with Facebook Graph with new Facebook app ‘Places I’ve Eaten’

OpenTable has released a Facebook application to help friends connect around food. My question: won't Facebook Graph support this kind of thing natively?

App.net, the pay-to-access social network, adds a free membership tier in ‘curated growth’ experiment

Earlier this month, founder Dalton Caldwell told me that people won't adopt a new social network just because it's good for them -- it needed to be "truly better." That's probably true -- but free is also good.

Pinterest raises $200M at $2.5B valuation, reportedly

Pinterest has reportedly raised $200 million funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion. In other words, the rumors appear to be true.

Real names on Facebook safe for now, as German court says Irish law applies to its citizens

"The decisions are more than amazing," Thilo Weichert, a German privacy commission, said in a statement.

Dalton Caldwell on App.net: Six months later, more people are starting to ‘get it’

Half a year ago, serial entrepreneur had a crazy idea: build a social network that people actually paid for. Now with App.net three times bigger than his goal, he looks back -- and ahead -- at what the service is, and will become.

3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S.

Three billion tweets and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare's case, that means the "Best of" series, which highlights "the most awesome places in cities across the U.S."

Facebook to go all Mission Impossible with self-destructing photo messaging app

Many things you put on Facebook you want to save and share forever. Some things you wish you could delete immediately.

Facebook: growing fast in the middle east and Africa, with plenty more opportunity (infographic)

Facebook might have almost fully penetrated core markets such as the U.S. and Europe, two regions in which the world's largest social network's growth is slowing. But there's still plenty of room to grow in the MENA regions: the Middle East and North Africa countries.

Microsoft unlocks Socl, a puzzling social network that looks a lot like Pinterest

Pronounced "social," Socl debuted to the public today with a fresh coat of paint, new features, and no clear purpose.

Facebook: How we helped Mozilla build Messenger for Firefox

Facebook chat, notifications, and updates that follow you everywhere you go on the web, right in your web browser, is a cool idea. What's even cooler is how Mozilla and Facebook actually built it.

At The Pool helps people make new friends, keeping the old is up to you

Social startup At The Pool brings people together around shared interests to faciliate real-world interactions

Perch launches with simple, ambient video communication for families or teams, scores $1M in seed funding

It's kind of like a tiny video-oriented social network, with Facebook's 2011 "frictionless sharing" concept brought to life. Except only with people you really, really care about.