Hosted by Shira Lazar, What’s Trending is a live interactive talk show and a 24/7 news hub for the digital age. It features guests and performances from celebrities and online influencers, and covers trending news from around the web and through social media… Tweet This Post

Facebook became a $104.2 billion company Friday in much the same way it became the world’s biggest social network and a cultural game-changer: by stubbornly forging ahead despite criticism and calls that it couldn’t be done… Tweet This Post

As Facebook becomes a public company Friday, trading at $42 per share and valued at $116.6 billion, new data suggests the company’s social media dominance may be in decline. Twice as many Facebook members use at least one additional social networking site in 2012 as they did at this time last year… Tweet This Post

Facebook shares started trading at $42 a share on Nasdaq around 11:30 a.m. Friday morning under the symbol “FB.” The company’s 421.2 million shares offered to the public will now raise $17… Tweet This Post

Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock… Tweet This Post

From here on out, Facebook will not be measured by the number of registered users, the number of photos being uploaded every minute or the number of likes and comments left by its more than 900 million members… Tweet This Post

Why is there nothing but Facebook IPO news today, you (Facebook haters) may be asking? Well, outside of the obvious – people are obsessed, this is a historic event, it’s the biggest tech IPO over, etc… Tweet This Post

In less than an hour, Mark Zuckerberg has jumped from number 29 to number 24 — and then back to 29 — on the list of wealthiest people in the world. Facebook set an opening share price of $38 on Thursday evening, which valued Zuckerberg’s 503… Tweet This Post

Today’s Facebook IPO is a momentous, historical occasion. It’s set to be the biggest tech IPO ever, and the third largest IPO in U.S. history, second only to Visa and General Motors. The company that was once just a glimmer in the eye of a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg raised over $16 billion yesterday [...]

Click here to view this gallery. In the hours leading up to Friday’s big bell ringing the employees at Facebook have their eyes glued to computer screens rather than Wall Street. In honor of the Facebook IPO is going back to its hacker roots, hosting an all-night employee hackathon: Hackathon 31… Tweet This Post

Click here to view this gallery. What happens in the wee hours of the morning outside of Facebook headquarters as the world prepares for its IPO? Not much — unless you’re media. In that case, then you are busy setting up in the parking lot to help document history… Tweet This Post

Are we or aren’t we? When it comes to social media bubbles and whether or not we’re in one, there is no shortage of people willing to argue on each side of the debate. It doesn’t matter if Facebook finishes Friday, its first day as a publicly-traded company, with a valuation of $105 billion or [...]