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Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report

Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 8

Facebook investors to cash out more shares

(AP) -- Insiders and early Facebook investors will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take advantage of investor demand.

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Facebook billionaire shuns luxury for startup life

(AP) -- Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean.

Technology / Business

created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn

Facebook on Monday announced a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram.

Technology / Business

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Facebook to make stock debut on NASDAQ: report

Facebook has picked the technology-heavy NASDAQ exchange for a much-anticipated stock market debut expected next month, according to unconfirmed reports Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Long-awaited Facebook IPO looms in New Year

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has deflected talk of going public for years but it looks like it is finally going to happen in 2012.

Technology / Business

created Jan 01, 2012 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Facebook fixes photo privacy bug

Facebook has fixed a bug that allowed the viewing of some private photographs of other members and which was reportedly used to access personal pictures of founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Facebook makes privacy pledge in FTC settlement

Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Facebook settles with FTC over deception charges

Facebook is settling with the Federal Trade Commission over charges it deceived consumers with its privacy settings to get people to share more personal information than they originally agreed to.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

IPOs give tech companies instant wealth but lots of headaches

With Groupon Inc.'s high-flying IPO earlier this month and Zynga Inc. poised to go public, Silicon Valley is once again atwitter (if you will) about its favorite obsession: the initial public stock offering.

Technology / Business

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Details of ancient shark attack preserved in fossil whale bone

A fragment of whale rib found in a North Carolina strip mine is offering scientists a rare glimpse at the interactions between prehistoric sharks and whales some 3- to 4-million years ago during the Pliocene.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Facebook co-founder unveils Asana productivity software

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz unveiled his highly anticipated new company, a developer of software that aims to help people work more efficiently.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Facebook redesigns profiles, adds 'timeline' (Update)

(AP) -- Facebook is trying to evolve from an Internet hangout where people swing by to share tidbits, links and photos to a homestead decorated with the memories, dreams and diversions of its 800 million ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The riddle of the Syriac double dot: The world's earliest question mark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University manuscript specialist, Dr. Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world’s earliest example of a question mark. The symbol in question is two dots, one above ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast