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Updated Facebook Home Android App Gets Folders

Updated Facebook Home Android App Gets Folders

When Facebook rolled out its ‘Facebook Home’ app, it arrived with a lot of fanfare. However, the app failed to gain much traction after

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Facebook Aims to Become Newspaper for Mobile Devices

Facebook Aims to Become Newspaper for Mobile Devices

Facebook has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual

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See inside Facebook’s network & explore Google’s data dreams at Structure

See inside Facebook’s network & explore Google’s data dreams at Structure

Want to understand how Facebook connects its servers? Hear from VMware’s CEO how the virtualization giant plans to build its next big business?

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Why Facebook isn’t the right company to create a Google Reader replacement

Why Facebook isn’t the right company to create a Google Reader replacement

Google Reader is meeting its end in just a few weeks, and there’s no doubt it’ll be traumatic for users of the beloved

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Facebook to kill off Sponsored Results, streamline its advertising efforts

Facebook to kill off Sponsored Results, streamline its advertising efforts

Facebook ads are about to become a tiny bit less obtrusive: the social network just announced that it will stop showing Sponsored Results this July. These ads

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Facebook's Hashtags and Other News you Need to Know

Facebook's Hashtags and Other News you Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in

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Square.my Puts You Into Facebook Commerce Business

Square.my Puts You Into Facebook Commerce Business

While Facebook stores haven’t worked out so well for major retailers, so-called f-commerce is still a force to be reckoned with for smaller merchants, businesses,

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Facebook Will Webcast its First-Ever Stockholders Meeting

Facebook Will Webcast its First-Ever Stockholders Meeting

It has been nearly a year since Facebook decided to go public. The IPO was marred with a number of issues, but Facebook pushed forth and

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A Peek Inside Facebook Office Singapore

A Peek Inside Facebook Office Singapore

Facebook Singapore’s office officially opened it doors almost three years ago in late 2010, and currently occupies two levels of a corporate office

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Republicans Pick Facebook Engineer as Chief Technology Officer

Republicans Pick Facebook Engineer as Chief Technology Officer

For the first time, the Republican Party has a Chief Technology Officer: outgoing Facebook Engineering Manager Andy Barkett. As CTO, Barkett will oversee the Republican

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Franky Gehry to Design Facebook's New NYC Office

Franky Gehry to Design Facebook's New NYC Office

Facebook confirmed last week's reports that it has signed a 10-year lease for just under 100,000 square feet of office space at 770

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Twitter and Facebook banned in turkey

Twitter and Facebook banned in turkey

Social media could "provoke great masses”, said Binali Yıldırım, Turkey's Transportation, Maritime and Communication Minister, when he announced that the country is planning

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Facebook Advertises That You Can Turn Off Home “If You Need Some Alone Time”

Facebook Advertises That You Can Turn Off Home “If You Need Some Alone Time”

Desperate to make its homescreen replacement Home seem less invasive, Facebook is advertising that you can temporarily deactivate it and use your HTC First or

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