Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion in deal shocker
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world’s...
Wall Street sees sense in Facebook’s $19 billion WhatsApp purchase
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s purchase of fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion stunned the markets but analysts said the deal made strategic sense as...
Facebook offers new gender options for users
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — You don’t have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant has added a customizable...
Facebook: 10 years of a trend story
Whisper is the new Snapchat, is the new Twitter, is the new Facebook. If you follow the fad-chasing hype of the modern tech media, you...
Web companies give first look at secret government data requests
(Reuters) – Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday began publishing details about the number of secret government requests for data they receive, hoping to...
Facebook Saved Over A Billion Dollars By Building Open Sourced Servers
Facebook is reaping the benefits of designing its own energy efficient servers. Today at the Open Compute Summit, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that In the...
Facebook Officially A Mobile Ad Firm With 53% Of Ad Revenue Now Coming From Its 945M Mobile Users
Facebook hit a major milestone with today’s Q4 2013 earnings as it crossed the halfway point and now earns 53% of ad revenue from mobile,...
Facebook shares rally over 12% with profit jump
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has said that profit soared in 2013 on the back of sizzling mobile ad revenue as the social network’s membership swelled. The...
Facebook could lose 80 percent of users by 2017, report claims
Interest in Facebook has peaked and the social network could lose up to 80 percent of its users by 2017, researchers say. Academics at Princeton...