Facebook Worth Estimated At $50 Billion
A reported investment by Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor of $500 million in Facebook is a further sign that the social networking behemoth is becoming a powerful force even outside tech circles.
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A reported investment by Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor of $500 million in Facebook is a further sign that the social networking behemoth is becoming a powerful force even outside tech circles.
For some who are fighting an addiction to social networking sites like Facebook, an application is now available to help you stay away.
Facebook will try to make it easier to identify friends in photos uploaded to the social networking site by using facial recognition software to suggest people that users may want to tag.
Facebook's founder and CEO has been named Time's "Person of the Year" for 2010.
A spam attack on Twitter showed why it's wise to use different passwords for Internet accounts.
Facebook was redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos.
Yogi Bear, The Smurfs and other cartoon characters, FB'ers are changing their profile pictures to bring awareness against violence to children.
A new survey conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that one in five divorce cases filed nationwide cited the Palo Alto-based website Facebook as the reason for divorce.
Former President George W. Bush brought his national book tour to the Bay Area Monday afternoon when he visited Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto to talk about his memoir.
In a sign of the companies' divergent fortunes, MySpace said Thursday it will let its users log in to their Facebook accounts through their MySpace page.
Facebook is unveiling a new messaging platform that takes aim at one of the Internet's first applications, e-mail.
A new service aims to help you share the hundreds of photos you take with your camera phone with the people you trust the most - be it of moments as forgettable as a late-night McRib sandwich or as memorable as a new engagement ring.
Facebook was down for several hours in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. But was it a technical problem or a takedown by the government?
Many industry experts are speculating over whether the social networking giant will launch its own email service.
The Family Online Safety Institute's annual conference gets underway on Tuesday in Washington D.C.
If you use Facebook to "check in" to your favorite restaurants or shops, you can now expect to see rewards and discounts from companies looking to drum up business and lure in loyal customers.
The same week it was hit with criticism for allegedly compromising users' privacy, Facebook is filing suit against three companies it's accusing of spamming its customers.
A $250 million fund has been created to finance the development of social apps. The high profile partnership is being led by well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 10 popular Facebook applications have been transmitting users' personal identifying information to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said technology companies are instrumental to the Obama Administration's goals for promoting peace and prosperity abroad.
Facebook is working with a gay-advocacy group to reduce the amount of hate speech and bullying on the online social hub.
Microsoft is starting to incorporate what your friends do on Facebook right into its Bing search engine.
California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana has a new friend: Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has given $100,000 to back the proposal.
