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Facebook unveils social search engine “Graph Search” with Bing partnership

Who are your friends that live in Seattle? Which ones of those like the Seattle Seahawks? What restaurants have your… Read More

Myspace is back, but can it return to social media stardom?

Myspace is back, and it’s nothing like it was before. After going through invite-only beta testing in July and previewing… Read More

LinkedIn reaches 200 million user milestone, adding two new users per second

Some numbers out of the LinkedIn camp today highlight how successful the social network is doing. The company has reached… Read More

Foolish on Facebook: Teen arrested after posting about drunk driving

There are certain things you probably shouldn’t post on social media. Some examples: angry insults directed at your boss, drunk… Read More

Venture-backed IPOs and mergers decline in 2012 after Facebook’s sluggish debut

Forty nine venture-backed companies completed initial public offerings during 2012, a slight decline over 2011 when 51 companies made the… Read More

Year in review: Vote for the top Seattle tech story of 2012

It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of… Read More

$100 to send a Facebook message? Social network’s ‘test’ goes to the extreme

Facebook is conducting “a small experiment” that gives selected users the option to pay to send a message to the primary… Read More

“Amazon” cracks yearly most-searched list for first time

According to what’s people are searching for, Amazon is gaining popularity. For the first time ever, the term “Amazon” cracked… Read More

From Apple Maps to Oprah’s iPad: The 10 biggest tech debacles of 2012

Ah, the holiday season. A great time to sit back and reflect on some of the most memorable moments of… Read More

Calm down, people: Instagram isn’t selling your souls

One of the bigger tech stories going on right now is the whirlwind Instagram created with its new polices that… Read More

Twitter reaches 200M monthly active users, up 42 percent in 9 months

Some social media companies rise and fall quickly. Twitter, however, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. The company… Read More

Commentary: Why the downfall of Facebook is more possible than you think

Facebook is the clearcut leader in social. We all know this. No one else is even close (except maybe Google).… Read More

Q&A: Double Down CEO Greg Enell on growth, games, money and Facebook

Double Down Interactive, the Seattle-based maker of casino-style social games, started the year by announcing its acquisition by gambling technology… Read More

Facebook is the best place to work; Steve Ballmer, Amazon enjoy better approval ratings

The employees have spoken: Facebook is the best place to work. Glassdoor.com released its fifth annual “Employees’ Choice Awards” that… Read More

Reports: Facebook in talks to buy Microsoft’s Atlas ad platform

Facebook is in talks to buy Microsoft’s Atlas ad-serving platform, one of the remnants of the Redmond company’s acquisition of… Read More

Should Facebook users be allowed to vote on privacy changes?

You were probably as surprised as I was to get this in an email from Facebook last Wednesday. “We recently… Read More

Facebook’s former Seattle site director is building a new travel startup in town, but he’s not saying much about it

Ari Steinberg, the former site director for Facebook’s engineering office in Seattle, is cooking up a new travel-oriented startup in… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg, a Microsoft engineer? Could have happened without Facebook

Meet Mark Zuckerberg, an impressive and talented Microsoft engineer. That might have been a truthful sentence had Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO,… Read More

Messages superimposed on images may be less mind blowing than they appear

I was scrolling through my news feed, minding my own (friends’) business, when I was hit with the blinding orange… Read More

How Facebook is boosting revenue and frustrating some of its biggest users

A billion users? Whatever. Here’s the real evidence that Facebook has arrived: Companies are freaking out about a change in… Read More

Facebook at 1 billion: Zuckerberg’s ‘infrastructure’ reaches critical mass

Facebook is marking a major milestone today, with Mark Zuckerberg announcing via status update that the social network has surpassed… Read More

Geek on the Street: Can Myspace make a comeback?

Myspace is attempting a comeback. Yes, you read that right. The former social media kingpin is looking to dust off… Read More

Inside story: How Facebook decided to go native on iOS

Facebook’s new app for iPhone and iPad has made an impression on users with a significant improvement in speed and… Read More

Facebook: The personalization engine for all of the Web

Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington… Read More

Facebook’s Zuckerberg: Stock ‘disappointing,’ but mobile ‘fundamentally good’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on stage this afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, and Michael Arrington wasted no time… Read More

PAX: Pirates, ninjas and what’s really happening in video games these days

Did you know that Nintendo Wii games are 22 percent more likely to include ninjas than games on Sony’s PlayStation… Read More

Facebook taking product design beyond HQ for 1st time with new Seattle jobs

It’s not unusual for Facebook to be hiring at its Seattle engineering outpost, but some of its latest job openings… Read More

Microsoft Bing launches Facebook photo search tool

Microsoft’s Bing search engine today rolled out the latest in a series of Facebook-related features, launching a tool for quickly searching… Read More

Geek of the Week: Shannon Romano, bringing a bit of Las Vegas to Facebook

  Some of us like to visit casinos, but Shannon Romano is immersed in the world of casino gaming —… Read More

Facebook’s iPhone and iPad app goes native to boost speed

Facebook today rolled out new versions of its iPhone and iPad apps, moving away from web-centric HTML5 code and instead… Read More

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