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Almost half of Facebook’s daily users are mobile-only, Zuck says

Here’s a neat party trick: if you meet someone new, and you know they’re a Facebook user, guess that they… Read More

Facebook’s 3Q earnings exceed expectations with revenue over $2B

The biggest name in social media just keeps on trucking. Facebook’s quarterly report exceeded analyst expectations, reporting $2.02 billion in… Read More

Pew study: 30% of Americans get news from Facebook

While nearly one-third of Americans find news via Facebook, they aren’t necessarily going to the social media hub searching for… Read More

Facebook unveils new pricing, video capabilities for mobile app ads

Get ready for video ads in your phone’s news feed. Facebook announced today that it’s going to be allowing app… Read More

Facebook and Google reach online advertising partnership

For two of the biggest advertising companies on the internet, it seems that collaboration is the name of the game.… Read More

You can’t opt out of auto-playing Instagram video on mobile anymore, but here’s how to spare your wallet

When you next open up Instagram on your smartphone, there might be a video already playing for you. In an… Read More

The billionaire buffer: How Mark Zuckerberg is following Bill Gates’ lead in real estate

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are both Harvard dropouts who climbed to the top of the technology world. And it… Read More

Report: Facebook preparing major updates to iOS apps

Brace yourselves, Facebook users: Graph Search is coming to mobile. Citing an anonymous source familiar with the company’s plans, 9to5… Read More

Q&A: Robert Scoble on ‘Age of Context,’ Google, Microsoft and the ‘freaky factor’

Writer, interviewer and tech evangelist Robert Scoble was back in Seattle this week, with his ever-present Google Glass, to promote the… Read More

Finally, you can unfriend Facebook friends on Windows Phone

If you’re a Windows Phone user who has been waiting to unfriend that one person who was kind of in… Read More

Hey, Instagram users: Get ready for advertisements

Just as Twitter revealed its IPO Thursday afternoon, Facebook-owned Instagram thought it’d be a nice time to drop a little… Read More

Social logins: Facebook, Google struggle to grow as passports for broader web

Now, more than ever, social media accounts can be the passports for users to connect to different services we use… Read More

Facebook Graph Search expands to include posts and status updates

Facebook Graph Search, the social network’s tool that allows you to search your friends’ profiles, is now better able to… Read More

Facebook to give TV networks data on social engagement with shows

Twitter made some waves last year by announcing that it was partnering with Nielsen to create a special metric that… Read More

Facebook friends iOS 7, unveils new interface for iPad and iPhone app

Following in the footsteps of countless other companies, Facebook announced today that it will roll out an update to its… Read More

Using Facebook to predict the future, and save lives: Special meetup with Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Facebook posts often seem like throwaway items, but they can actually serve as an early warning system to identify young… Read More

Facebook now testing auto-playing videos in news feed, prepping for video ads

Want to watch video in your news feed without having to press play? If you’re one of the anointed few,… Read More

Zuck: Government “blew it” with NSA disclosures

SAN FRANCISCO–When Mark Zuckerberg meets with top House Republicans next week, it seems like the NSA’s spying programs will make… Read More

Zuckerberg: Our bad IPO made us stronger

SAN FRANCISCO–Dressed in his usual hoodie and jeans, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today to thunderous applause,… Read More

Stock watch: Apple dips one day after iPhone announcement; Facebook hits all-time high

While consumers may have been excited about the fingerprint technology or colorful aesthetics of the new iPhones announced yesterday by… Read More

AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard

People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break… Read More

Instagram, Vine stop working at same time; people use Twitter to freak out

New post: AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard Original post:  If you want to Instagram another selfie or… Read More

How Facebook chooses what shows up in your feed

Ever wondered what sort of sorcery Facebook uses to determine what posts you see? As a part of today’s press… Read More

Facebook’s ‘story bumping’ and ‘last actor’ features will change your News Feed

Have you ever missed an important post on Facebook because you were asleep, and didn’t scroll down far enough to… Read More

You can soon embed Facebook statuses, photos

It’s been easy to embed Tweets for quite some time now, but Facebook did not offer a similar tool for… Read More

Facebook to help small mobile game studios with pilot program

Facebook is piloting a new mobile games publishing program that will help small game publishers expand the reach of their titles… Read More

It’s now illegal for employers to ask for your social media passwords in Washington

If you walk into work tomorrow and the boss demands access to your Facebook account, you can now use the… Read More

Hello, Lumia 1020! Windows Phone gets Hipstamatic Oggl, partial Instagram integration

It’s launch day for the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, the one with the 41-megapixel camera. And coinciding with the… Read More

Geek on the Street: Facebook’s stock is soaring, but do people think it’s still cool?

Sure, Facebook’s future looked quite nice on Thursday after its second quarter earnings report exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with a… Read More

Shimon Peres in Kindle interview: Facebook’s Zuckerberg ‘made a revolution with a billion people’

Amazon is expanding its Kindle Singles lineup into a new area, promising “major long-form interviews with iconic figures and world… Read More

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