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How Facebook threatens HP, Cisco, and more with its “vanity free” servers

Ars tours Facebook’s DIY-hardware lab to learn why it embraces open source hardware. MENLO PARK, CA—Building 17 of Facebook’s headquarters sits on what was once a Sun Microsystems campus known fondly...

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As Facebook gets serious about stickers, creator says so long

Sophie Xie, who started Facebook’s sticker initiative as a hackathon project, has left the social network just three months after the fancy emoticons made their debut. Just a little more than a year...

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Facebook Employees Made So Much Money From The IPO, Their County Is Now The...

Facebook went public in May 2012 and its IPO was expected to turn 1,000 of its employees into millionaires. These millionaires may have made the county where they live and work, San Mateo, the best...

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German minister: drop Google if you fear US spying

BERLIN (AP) — Internet users worried about their personal information being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies should stop using websites that send data to the United States, Germany’s top...

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Facebook Engineer Fires Back At BuzzFeed: Users Don’t Care How Many People...

“The Number Facebook Doesn’t Want You To See”, an article from Thursday by BuzzFeed claimed Facebook is hiding the number of people who see your posts so you don’t feel bad that most people don’t Like...

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Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Instagram designer Tim Van Damme to...

Facebook has confirmed that Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams is leaving the company, while Instagram designer Tim Van Damme has also parted ways. The firm provided the following statement to The Next...

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Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Call for More NSA...

Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will tomorrow demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government...

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Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To...

Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. Onavo will become the...

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Snapchat lets several billion dollar offers from Facebook and Google disappear

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Snapchat had entertained and ultimately rejected a buyout offer from Facebook as part of the social media company’s efforts to tap into a younger market. New...

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Facebook Expands Its Definition Of Small Business Pages, Says It Now Has 25M...

Facebook is tweaking the way it counts up the small and medium businesses that have a presence on the social network. Why the change? Well, it increases the count. Dan Levy, who leads Facebook’s small...

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Facebook Will Give Up The Ghost On Real Identity In Future Apps

Facebook has made a big point over the years of having real identities for its users, but it looks like that requirement is soon going to disappear, and users will able to use made-up names for more...

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Facebook Will Launch Graph Search For Mobile “Pretty Soon”

According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook’s recent earnings call, Facebook’s Graph Search will hit mobile devices ‘pretty soon.’ It’s now been a full year since Graph Search was launched and...

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Facebook buying Oculus Virtual Reality for $2 Billion

Facebook has been known for buying out products and companies have been successful were on the verge of success. Usually Facebook would acquire a new social network, an app or some online services, but...

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Facebook to announce Q1 earnings April 23

Ever since Q1 2013, Facebook’s financial picture has been getting rosier with each quarter, but will that trend continue? Facebook will announce its 2014 Q1 performance at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April...

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Facebook Launches ‘Nearby Friends’ Location Feature for Meet-Ups IRL

Facebook has always encouraged you to share with your friends — your favorite movies, pictures, and life updates. Now Facebook wants you sharing your location, too. The social network on Thursday...

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Facebook is reportedly building a mobile ad network, to be announced on April 30

Facebook will reportedly unveil plans for a mobile ad network during its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on April 30. After a three-year hiatus, the revamped event will not show off new...

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Facebook Acquires Fitness And Activity Tracking App Moves

Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone ‘Moves,‘ the startup announced today via a blog post. The company’s founders say that the Moves crew will join Facebook’s team to...

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Facebook Launches Anonymous Login So You Can Try Apps Without Giving Up Your...

At its F8 developer conference today, Facebook. a new version of its login system for third-party apps that lets people log in anonymously so they can demo apps before they provide their personal data....

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Facebook kills off its Poke and Camera apps

Facebook has pulled its Poke and Camera apps from the App Store, leaving them to die quietly, The Verge reports. While Poke was positioned as a Snapchat competitor, Facebook never really gave it the...

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Facebook reportedly preparing to open a sales office in China, where it is...

Facebook may be blocked in China, but that isn’t stopping it from moving forward with opening a sales office in the country’s capital, according to Bloomberg. The company is said to be in negotiations...

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