Facebook Posts Record $6.9 Billion Profit Amid Privacy Scandals
Facebook's revenue for the quarter rose 30% to $16.9 billion, according to its latest earnings report released Wednesday.
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Facebook's revenue for the quarter rose 30% to $16.9 billion, according to its latest earnings report released Wednesday.
Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use.
Newly released court documents reveal Facebook allowed children to ring up huge bills on digital games while the company rejected recommendations on addressing what it dubbed "friendly fraud."
Two months after the Camp Fire in Paradise, some of the victims who lost their homes are moving to the Bay Area and are getting resettled with the help of social media.
Facebook said Thursday it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts.
Facebook says it is investing $300 million over the next three years in news initiatives, with a focus on local news partnerships and other programs.
We may remember 2018 as the year when technology's dystopian potential became clear after a seemingly-unending series of revelations about the dark side of Silicon Valley's connect-everything ethos.
The Dow continued its tumble Thursday, dropping below 23,000 at one point as several tech giants including San Francisco-based Twitter were hit hard by the sell-off.
The attorney general in the nation's capital has filed a lawsuit against Menlo Park-based Facebook for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users.
Facebook, based in Menlo Park, offered more of its users' data to companies including Microsoft and Amazon than it has admitted, according to a new report by The New York Times.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that Silicon Valley's social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" amount of data to aid the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Three employees of a San Leandro construction company were fired Saturday for posting insensitive photos on social media from the wreckage left behind in Paradise by the deadly Camp Fire.
Facebook announced on Friday that the Menlo Park-based social network had exposed the private photos of millions of users without their permission.
Police in Menlo Park are investigating a bomb threat early Tuesday evening near offices of Facebook and Instagram, according to authorities.
Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues at Menlo Park-based Facebook were apparently concerned enough about Vine, a video app from Twitter, that on the day it launched, they moved to restrict its access to Facebook user data,
A member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is calling for the removal of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's name from the city's general hospital.
Facebook is cautiously expanding a feature that shows people local news and information, including missing-person alerts, road closures, crime reports and school announcements.
Facebook has a "black people problem," according to a former black manager at the Menlo Park-based social media giant.
A British lawmaker who has led investigations into disinformation on the internet was annoyed that Mark Zuckerberg turned down his invitation to appear before parliament this week. He probably has Zuckerberg's attention now.
The recent stock market meltdown has hit the tech sector and several Silicon Valley tech giants particularly hard.
Apple stock continued its free-fall, losing nearly 5 percent of its value in Tuesday trading on the New York Stock Exchange, pulling the entire market down with it.ts.
For the past decade, Sheryl Sandberg has been the poised, reliable second-in-command to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helping steer Facebook's rapid growth around the world, while also cultivating her brand in ways that hint at aspirations well beyond the social network.
Facebook has come under fire for a "barbaric use of technology" that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site.
Stocks fell sharply Monday, dragged down by reports of trouble at Apple and Facebook.
The conservative public affairs firm that worked for Facebook tried to get at least one journalist to do a story suggesting that the editors of Apple's news application were biased against Republicans.
