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Tech tales and images of a great flood
Blogs As I write this blog post, a large swathe of Metro Manila is still submerged in flood waters. In other areas of the metr...
Facebook hits 100 million users
News Less than five years after then-college student Mark Zuckerberg created the site in his dorm room, the social network has 100 million active users, most of whom are outside the United States.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, social networking, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., network, founder, Cambridge
Facebook's land grab in the face of a downturn
News The social-networking site is moving aggressively to sign up more users around the world while much of Silicon Valley hunkers down.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Growth strategies and tools, MySpace, Google Inc., Advertisement, Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Facebook: We've got 300M users, and making money
News Company achieved a cash-flow positive status for the first time last quarter, a blog post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg read.
Tags: Web 2.0, Conference, Bloomberg L.P., Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, entrepreneur, blog, Web 2.0
Facebook's hiring like crazy again
News Company hopes to be 50 percent bigger in terms of employees by the end of 2009, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in an interview with Bloomberg.
Tags: Web 2.0, Bloomberg L.P., Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, founder, hiring, Web 2.0
Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned
News It's been a week and some members say they still receive a "down for maintenance" error message when trying to access their profiles.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Web 2.0, Video, YouTube Inc., e-mail, Mark Zuckerberg
Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
News Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
Tags: Web 2.0, Legal, Twitter, Lawsuit, Emergency Management, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, emergency response, Facebook, founder
Facebook gets US$200M from European firm
News Social networking investment group Digital Sky Technologies puts US$200 million into Facebook in exchange for a nearly 2 percent stake, but no seat on the board.
Tags: Investments, Investment, Europe, social networking, London, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, financial, network
Facebook hits 175 million user mark
News Social networking site adds 25 million active users in little more than a month.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Web 2.0, Antarctica, Nigeria, Massachusetts, Japan, social networking, Russia, Harvard University
More cash for Facebook?
News Facebook-investor Accel Partners is pumping over US$1 bilion in two new funds; speculation is US$480 million of that may go to the social networking site.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Investments, Angel investing, BitTorrent, CFO, Accel Partners, social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Facebook to woo marketers with revamped 'fan pages'
News The social network will show off its latest wares geared toward brands and marketers on Wednesday. What to expect? A redesign and more "viral channels," it appears.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, MySpace, Survey, Advertisement, social networking, product development, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, network
Rise of the social generation
Blogs It's been one rough week for social networking phenomenon Facebook. Two weeks after it revised the site's terms of s...
Facebook's about-face: Change we can believe in?
News commentary After a change to the social network's terms of service sparks outrage, company decides to switch language back and says more modifications are on the way.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Terms Of Service, photograph, social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, network, blog
Facebook backs down on privacy terms
News CEO of the social networking service said in a blog post Wednesday that the company would return, for now, to its previous privacy policy.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Terms Of Service, FTC, Term, social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Facebook
