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F8: Facebook gives users more control over third-party apps

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is taking a series of steps make it easier for third-party developers to get users to log into… Read More

Facebook takes a shot at Twitter with new content aggregator for journalists

Post by FB Newswire. Today, Facebook unveiled FB Newswire, a service designed to help journalists find up-to-the-minute information about… Read More

Facebook Messenger app passes 200M users, Zuckerberg focused on ‘private content’

After Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in February, it was clear that the social media giant saw potential on the… Read More

Facebook beats Q1 expectations with $2.5B in revenue; CFO resigning

Facebook beat Wall Street’s expectations today with a Q1 revenue of $2.5 billion and an $0.34 EPS. The company also announced that… Read More

China’s Tencent looking to expand globally to take on Facebook, Amazon and more

Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Zynga and Uber all have each other to contend with, but what if a fierce… Read More

Facebook’s new ‘Nearby Friends’ feature aims to help users connect in real life

Facebook is rolling out a “Nearby Friends” feature to its mobile app, aiming to help users get together with people they… Read More

Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech companies deploy fixes for ‘Heartbleed’ bug

Amazon Web Services has rolled out fixes for several of its online services to address the “Heartbleed” vulnerability that has roiled… Read More

Look out, Skype: Facebook launches free calling via Messenger app

Facebook updated its Messenger app for iOS and Android today to include the ability to make voice calls through the… Read More

A dirty cloud? Amazon and Twitter receive failing grades in ‘green Internet’ report

Facebook, Google and Apple are considered leading innovators when it comes to deploying renewable energy to power its data centers… Read More

Facebook Messenger update brings support for Groups, forwarding messages

Facebook’s Messenger app for iPhone and Android was updated to version 4.0 today, and while users won’t notice much of… Read More

Oculus poaches another Valve employee, hires Michael Abrash as chief scientist

Oculus VR, the virtual reality headset technology company that was just acquired by Facebook for $2 billion, has hired another… Read More

Zuckerberg details plans to use drones to blanket Earth with high-speed Internet

Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook page to detail plans to utilize drones, satellites and lasers to “deliver Internet to everyone.”… Read More

Pew study: Half of Facebook, Twitter users find news on social media

Pew’s annual State of the Media report reveals some interesting data on the relationship between social media and digital news consumption in… Read More

Zuckerberg: Microsoft and Sony are no match for Facebook and Oculus

The jaw-dropper of the day in the tech industry, you’ve probably heard, was Facebook’s announcement that it will spend $2… Read More

Why did Facebook buy Oculus? To keep itself from missing the next big thing

It’s a bold move for a social media giant to buy a virtual reality company in the gaming space. But… Read More

Facebook buys virtual reality pioneer Oculus for $2 billion

After spending $19 billion on messaging service WhatsApp last month, it would seem reasonable for Facebook to take a break… Read More

Two thumbs up 2.0: How social media affects our behavior at the movie theater

Social media tools are changing the movie theater experience before, during and after seeing a flick on the big screen.… Read More

Facebook is rolling out a redesigned news feed

Facebook users will see a new look rolling out to their News Feed over the course of the coming weeks.… Read More

Hold your fire: Facebook, Instagram try to curb gun sales without background checks

Facebook announced today that it will take steps to prevent illegal gun sales on its site and Instagram, following intense… Read More

Teledesic 2.0? Facebook looking to buy solar-powered drone maker Titan to deliver Internet access from the skies

Craig McCaw’s Teledesic raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the 1990s to build low-orbiting satellites that could deliver high-speed… Read More

Tech interns at these companies might be making more than you

Oh, the joys of being a computer science major, and an intern at a technology titan. Glassdoor, the careers Web… Read More

A screenshot of Graph Search on Facebook's iPhone app

Here’s how to get certain parts of Facebook’s Graph Search on iOS

While desktop users have had access to Facebook’s somewhat creepy Graph Search feature for months now, it hasn’t made a… Read More

These charts show why Facebook may not have overpaid for WhatsApp

Some scoffed when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed this week that the $19 billion purchase price for WhatsApp was a… Read More

Facebook shares up 4% as Zuckerberg explains why they paid $19B for WhatsApp

Investors seemed to like what Mark Zuckerberg had to say during the Facebook CEO’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress… Read More

Glympse adds Foursquare-like location sharing to Samsung messaging app

Seattle-based Glympse has partnered with ChatON to enable its users to share their location with a friend through the Samsung-owned… Read More

WhatsDown: The best tweets poking fun at WhatsApp’s server malfunction

Just days after being acquired by Facebook for $19 billion, WhatsApp suffered an outage Saturday afternoon and has been down… Read More

Why Seattle needs a WhatsApp

I woke up this morning thinking about WhatsApp. Not so much about the mouth-dropping $19 billion price tag that Facebook… Read More

WhatTheApp? Why Facebook would spend $16 billion on an app with no advertising

Facebook announced this afternoon that it will pay $16 billion for WhatsApp, a free messaging application that lets users tap… Read More

Facebook buys WhatsApp messaging service for $16 billion

Facebook announced today it is acquiring the popular WhatsApp messaging service for $12 billion in stock and $4 billion in cash. The… Read More

Facebook offers users choice about their gender

Facebook announced today that it’s possible for users to choose a gender identity other than male or female, as well… Read More