Facebook Files To Go Public, Raise $5 Billion
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
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Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
Social networking-giant Facebook is expected to file for its initial public offering as early as Wednesday afternoon, and that has many in Silicon Valley excited, including luxury car dealers and real estate agents that sell high-end homes.
A Sergeant in the Richmond Police Department is facing criticism for a tweet directed at the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship that critics claim supports gun violence.
CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley said the company will have plenty of new challenges ahead once it goes public.
Google, Yahoo and other tech companies are working together to combat email "phishing" scams.
The study by two Stanford professors found that the amount of media multitasking correlated negatively with their social success.
A 15-year-old detained on suspicion of making threats against San Jose's Evergreen Valley High School was released Friday after police found no evidence that he was responsible for the crime.
The Wall Street Journal said Facebook could file regulatory papers for its initial public offering of stock as early as next week.
Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find.
Facebook is adding a bevy of new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to.
A new move by Google to boost its search results has angered some of its Google+ users over privacy and has competitors calling it an unfair advantage.
If the Menlo Park company goes public this year, as many have speculated, the state stands to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains taxes from Facebook investors and employees profiting from stock transactions.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said he decided new guidelines on how the Police Department uses social media were needed because several officers' inadvertently tipped off protesters about recent Occupy raids through Facebook and Twitter posts.
Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.
Facebook could be facing a lawsuit from the city of East Palo Alto over its recent move to Menlo Park.
Yahoo will enable Facebook users to share more of their activities on Yahoo's websites, including which stories they are reading.
Facebook completed a move Monday from its former headquarters in Palo Alto to a sprawling new campus in Menlo Park.
Zynga saw its stock dinged on its first day of trading Friday—an unexpected turn of events for a closely watched public debut seen as a precursor to Facebook's next year.
Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help.
Could Facebook's popularity have peaked? One Silicon Valley tech analyst thinks so, based on an informal poll.
Menlo Park has been reviewing bids for a major housing development across from the new Facebook headquarters, a city official said.
Facebook has said that it fixed a bug that had allowed users to access other users' photos, even if their profile pages were locked down...
Facebook has hired the team behind Gowalla, the location service that lets people share where they are using their mobile phones.
The FTC had charged that the social network told people they could keep the information they share private, then allowed it to be made public.
Facebook might finally be laying down the groundwork for a highly-anticipated initial public offering, long expected to take place sometime after April 2012.
