The Israeli mobile GPS startup Waze has another mega-suitor in Silicon Valley, with Google reportedly joining the bidding war and topping the $1 billion offer rumored to be coming from Facebook. What is it, really, about this mapping app that's drawing acquisition prices as high as — if not higher than — Instagram and Tumblr?
Facebook may have something of a new strategy: If you can't buy the competition, build a clone of it. Rumor has it that Facebook has built and is testing its own version of SnapChat, that popular-with-the-youngsters app that many associate with sexting.
From Gifts to Pages — and, oh yeah, Instagram — the year Facebook went public was the year Facebook proved it could make money, mostly through advertising, and even on your phone. Here's how, month by month.
It's not clear exactly when or how, but Facebook's Carolyn Everson confirmed that the company will "monetize" (i.e. sell advertising) on the very-popular photo sharing app.
How to remove ugly photos, block people instantly, and more — a (very) simple guide to help you better understand the latest round of changes.
A 21-year-old woman thought Mumbai shouldn't have been shutdown for the funeral of an Islamophobic leader. Broadcasting such opinions on Facebook was apparently grounds for arrest.
It won't be long before her parents are arranging playdates with Facebook and Like. No, really, those are real names, too.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Discovered: why social media's popular kids are stressed out; cigarettes harm brain activity; ocean acid is corroding snail shells; the end of the permanent case of the tryptophan naps.
People really want to believe that writing something on their wall will allow them to use the social network without having to play by the rules. It doesn't quite work like that, though.
The Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire has confirmed reports that he has a serious beef with Facebook.
One would think that sources ROFLOLzing in the face of a possible joint Yahoo-Facebook search venture would quiet the rumors that the two companies are thinking about working together, but it has only led to further rumoring.
Follow this link and you will see a totally unfiltered version of your Facebook News Feed, as opposed to the algorithm tailored version, where Facebook picks what friends' activities you see.
Facebook, like every other Internet site today, is dominated by election stuff, which you might find annoying. But it can actually do some good in this election.
This afternoon the filtered smartphone app became more than that, launching web profile pages for its computer inclined users.
After letting it lie dormant for years, Facebook is pumping resources into an often overlooked tool called Marketplace. It's a lot like the old tool called Marketplace, only more expensive.
Oh how the tables have turned: The feds have arrested Paul Ceglia, the man who sued Facebook for 50 percent stake in the social network, charging him with attempting to defraud Mark Zuckerberg.
The surprise resignation of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit last week seemed suspect to many observers, but a new report in The New York Times explains how Pandit was actually given an unsavory choice: Quit or be fired.
Though the Instagram sale got a lot of press for its big $1 billion price tag, when all is said and done Facebook will only pay $715 million in cash and stock for the photo-sharing app, according to a Security and Exchange Commission filing from today.
Facebook's little stock-that-couldn't is on track for its biggest one-day gain ever and it has everything to do with yesterday's earnings report in which it reported a $59 million loss.
Facebook's new advertising strategies are working for them, with the company's earnings report showing a year-over-year ad revenue growth of 36 percent.
If it weren't for some Security and Exchanges Commission vetting, Facebook would have gotten away with the following lie in its pre-IPO filings:
Facebook has confirmed that it is working with certain retailers to try out a "want" button, which unlike the "like" button would accurately indicate consumer desires.
After 15 months on the job, Facebook's VP of communications Joe Lockhart is leaving the social network because he doesn't like the West Coast, though the timing suggests otherwise.
Today in books and publishing: Silicon Valley exec will tackle gender in the workplace; Google and publishers make peace; Kakutani hatchets Helprin; an all-female issue of Armchair/Shotgun.
The Internet has brought to our attention a horrible invention called a Like-A-Vest that hugs you when you get a Facebook like, to which we say: no more.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to talk up the site's one billionth user, he ended up spending a lot of time defending the future of the site.
Just as Facebook announced its 1 billionth monthly active user, the social network released its first major commercial, in which the company tries to show how human the Internet activity that involves no face-to-face interaction really is.
Facebook announced Wednesday that it was rolling a new service in 20 countries that would enable users to promote their status updates -- for a price.
Data from the Buzzfeed network has found many fewer page views are coming from email than they used to, as other modes of sharing, like Facebook and Twitter have taken off. We have a theory for why: emailing links around takes too much effort.
Over the last month, Facebook has been spelling out its new take on advertising, a lot of which involves giving your personal information to marketers. Over that same period, its stock price, which had been in freefall since its IPO, has climbed back 25 percent, leading us to believe that Wall Street likes its new data-driven, privacy-challenging ad strategies.
Facebook says it's protesting online child privacy protection laws that would make it harder for kids to "like" things with the social network. They say they want to encourage kids' freedom of expression, but we bet it also has a lot to do with advertising.
In its first foray with Datalogix, that company that uses rewards card data to make advertising more effective, the social network has found that fewer than 1 percent of in-store sales could be tied to brand advertising campaigns on Facebook, reports Reuters's Alexei Oreskovic.
The best thing about Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Russia is that we've figured out one more person who warrants a wardrobe change from the Facebook wunderkind. The second best thing? That we found out Dmitry Medvedev is a Zuckerberg fanboy.
Even more than Twitter now, Instagram has its users hooked, but it still doesn't mean much financially for Facebook. Still, there are some glimmers that sharing photos might be a big business.
Following Facebook's IPO we declared a bubble burst and now we're seeing that hit the start-up ecosystem as investor money becomes harder to find.
Though Facebook claims that there is no glitch, users insist that a bug on the site has exposed their private messages, putting them on their Timeline for all to see.
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix by explaining that it doesn't violate any Federal Trade Commission regulations. That led us to ask what exactly the FTC does protect in the data collection department.
In an attempt to give advertisers more information about the effectiveness of ads, Facebook has partnered with Datalogix, a company that "can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores," as The Financial Times's Emily Steel and April Dembosky explain.
The hostage situation that unfolded in Pittsburgh on Friday had a unique voice commenting on the action: That of the alleged hostage taker himself, who has been keeping his Facebook page updated as police try to talk him into releasing the victims. The page is offline but we've got screen shots.
One year into its quest to get us to passively share everything with each other all the time, it's starting to sink in at Facebook that people aren't very interested in bringing radical transparency to their digital lives.
In a post-IPO effort to prove it can still engage its users with advertising, Facebook has started selling ad space that it used to give away for free. The update comes to Facebook Offers, which is the social network's version of daily deals.
Aaron Greenspan, a former Harvard student, who has claimed to The New York Times that he founded Facebook, has published on his personal site some early IM conversations between him and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that show a side of Zuck we haven't seen since he took his social network public.
The promise of Facebook monetization lies in this chart by Nielsen: It shows people trust their friends above all other forms of advertising--by a lot.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the Harvard graduate twins who just couldn't stop suing Mark Zuckerberg for creating Facebook, have finally found their calling: creating a Facebook-like website.
Within the first minutes of his first public speaking engagement since the IPO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the stock has been a disappointment.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ensured the world that he would not pull a Peter Theil and sell his shares within the next 12 months, as indicated in this form filed today with the SEC.
More than three months after Facebook's IPO, chief financial officer David Ebersman is getting the blame for the social network's failure on the stock market, at least that's how DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin sees it.
In an effort to appease advertisers, Facebook is cleaning up its fake "like" problem, which actually doesn't sound like it will do much of anything to boost the credibility of a like.
Yelp's stock was supposed to tank today, or at least experience a dip, but it's doing the opposite of that, up almost 20 percent, as of this writing.
It was the "like" that made Facebook more valuable than the average website or social network, but today we get some disconcerting data about that little tag's real power, or lack thereof.
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