Russians invest in Facebook

Russians Digital Sky Technologies has invested 200 million to buy 1.96 percent stake in Facebook Inc. This values Palo Alto's Facebook at $10 billion.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who started Facebook at Harvard...

Facebook to Allow Users to Participate in Policies, Terms of Use

After much back and forth (and backlash) regarding the recent launch — and subsequent retraction — of its allegedly restrictive 'new' Terms of Service, social networking giant Facebook announced Thursday that it...

Mark Zuckerberg backs down on new Facebook terms of service

In a major relief to millions of die hard fans of social network site Facebook, your photographs, videos and comments on Facebook are still yours, at least for the moment.The social networking website has posted a...

8. Mob Rule: Mark Zuckerberg SXSW Interview: 2008 in Review

" 2008's Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News 1.    Mumbai attacks2.    Natural disasters: Emergency info 3.    SF Olympic torch relay protests 4.   ...

Fireworks at Gnomedex

I'm technically on vacation this week so I missed Gnomedex this year.  Too bad because it sounds like there were some real theatrics.  According to CNet:"uber-blogger Robert Scoble, who at one point...

Live from D6: Windows and Guitar Solos

Since 2003, The Wall Street Journal has hosted D: All Things Digital, a conference which brings together the tech industry's biggest players in a series of informal meetings and conversations. It's getting bigger...

Sarah Lacy Blames Lack of Innovation at SXSW for Backlash

Mashable has a great summary of Sarah Lacy's response to the controversy surrounding her SXSW  keynote interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.By all accounts, it was a terrible interview, however Lacy...

Facebook Founder Flounders on “60 Minutes”

It's hard to determine whether Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on "60 Minutes" will be a help or a hindrance to Facebook's corporate image, but it certainly made one thing clear: Zuckerberg may well be a robot from...

Microsoft buys stake in Facebook

"Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft's rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site. Microsoft will also sell internet ads for...

A Revolt Facebook Style

"A firestorm of dissent just swept college campuses across the country. Hundreds of thousands of students mobilized in an enormous, rip-roaring controversy that raised questions about privacy, the public's right to know and how we learn about the lives of others on the...

Users Throw Book at Facebook

"TUESDAY, FACEBOOK.COM UNVEILED WHAT COMPANY executives must have considered a convenient new feature: an RSS news feed that alerts members' friends to changes in each other's profiles. By Wednesday, the company...

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