Archive for Facebook

Is Facebook Preparing To Launch ‘Facebook Labs’ For Experimental Features?

Sep 09, 2009 No Comments

A few minutes ago we published a post about Facebook’s new Desktop Notifications app for Mac — a very slick desktop client that lets you monitor your Facebook notifications from your Mac desktop. We’ve been poking around the app’s page a bit more, and we may have stumbled upon something even more exciting: a directory of [...]

Read more

Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’, claims psychologist

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments

Playing video war games and solving Sudoku may have the same effect as keeping up to date with Facebook, according to Dr Tracy Alloway. But text messaging, micro-blogging on ”Twitter” and watching YouTube were all likely to weaken ”working memory”… Tweet This Post

Read more

Facebook’s fbFund Startups Spend the Day Pitching for More Dollars

Sep 02, 2009 No Comments

Twelve weeks after the start of Facebook’s new incubator-style fbFund program, the 18 startups in this year’s class showed off the fruits of their labor to VCs and Facebook execs in a bid to get more funding at today’s fbFund Demo Day. In addition to participating in the 10-week Y Combinator-like fbFund Rev program headed by Dave [...]

Read more

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More

Aug 31, 2009 No Comments

A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well.There’s so much material that we’ve broken the interview notes up into a [...]

Read more

Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

Aug 29, 2009 No Comments

Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook’s totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app’s developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here. The store currently shows that the app is version 2.5, but if you click the Download button anyway you’ll get the [...]

Read more

A Look At Facebook’s Reach Worldwide

Aug 28, 2009 No Comments

Everyone knows that Facebook has become absolutely massive, but it’s easy to lose sight of just how big a number like 250 million is. Buzzpoint, a social media marketing firm based out of Los Angeles, has put together an impressive visualization that shows off just how large Facebook has grown. The company has estimated the [...]

Read more

Facebook Tests Mobile Payments

Aug 27, 2009 No Comments

In a partnership with mobile payments startup Zong, Facebook is now allowing some users to buy Facebook Credits by billing their mobile phones… Tweet This Post

Read more

Facebook Bows to Canada Over Privacy Concerns

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

Facebook has been in hot water with Canada over how it protects user data, and the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow that the company plans to comply with the government’s privacy concerns. Last month, Stoddart said that the social network breached Canada’s privacy law by holding [...]

Read more

Former Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Joins Khosla Ventures

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

Gideon Yu, the former Facebook CFO unceremoniously shown the door in late March, has joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner, we’ve heard from multiple sources… Tweet This Post

Read more

Mark Zuckerberg: “Spotify Is So Good”

Aug 25, 2009 No Comments

The ink isn’t even dry on the MySpace/iLike acquisition, and already Facebook has a new crush on a different music service, Spotify. We’ve heard that Facebook has been talking with the European startup about a partnership for well over a year (about the time the Facebook music rumors heated up), but that the talks have [...]

Read more

From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store

Aug 25, 2009 No Comments

The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It’s gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has entered the debate: the developer [...]

Read more

Facebook Plans to Boost Staff 50% This Year, Zuckerberg Says

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

Facebook Inc. plans to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year as it benefits from a surplus of engineers amid the recession, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said. “No one else has been hiring,” Zuckerberg, 25, said in an interview. “It’s been a great environment for us because the economy has [...]

Read more