NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing. (more)
Few milestones are as memorable as a child’s sixteenth birthday. With the celebration of newfound independence comes a parent’s realization that in what seems like a very short time, so much has changed. (more)
Monday was President Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday, and the Heritage Foundation launched a Facebook app using the new OpenGraph technology to commemorate the occasion. (more)
NEW DELHI (AP) — Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world’s largest democracy, media reported Monday. (more)
In Wednesday’s IPO filing, Facebook acknowledged that it will have to comply with the legal and regulatory burdens of becoming a public entity. Listing the various financial laws it expects to navigate as a public company, its public filing highlighted some of the high, government-imposed regulatory costs companies face when they make that hurdle. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — The goody-two-shoes among us say it’s better to give than to receive. That’s not true for the average Facebook user, though. (more)
If you’re mesmerized by the thought of a movie about death matches and American decline, you don’t have to be starving anymore. Facebook gamers can now play “The Hunger Games Adventure.” (more)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is baring its business soul. (more)
Ron Paul’s campaign is receiving financial support from Silicon Valley tech visionaries, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist donated nearly a million dollars to Endorse Liberty, the pro-Ron Paul super PAC disclosed Tuesday. (more)
While Facebook’s approaching $100 billion initial public offering (IPO) is causing a fuss in the marketplace, it isn’t the only fast growing company about to go public. (more)
Facebook’s new profile format, Facebook Timeline, will be available to all Facebook users in a “few weeks.” Perhaps the most significant mandatory change since the social network’s inception, the new features — which will allow users to look through a person’s old status updates, wall posts and comments with ease — have some users concerned over privacy. (more)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is adding a bevy of new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to. (more)
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On the same day that thousands of websites including Wikipedia and WordPress have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act and Protect IP Act; Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his name and support for the bill. (more)
The highly anticipated Facebook IPO could happen as early as May, according to a Monday report from the Wall Street Journal. (more)
We all know that sending tweets and status updates on Twitter and Facebook for the world to see can occasionally cause headaches for senders. People have been fired or penalized by their employers for posting controversial things on social networking sites. (more)
In the six months since Google’s public disclosure of its Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust investigation, much of the debate around the issue has been focused on the evolution of search — how it has changed over the past decade, how information is presented to users and where information comes from. As we all well know, search engines like Google have become incredibly powerful tools and are hardly recognizable from their old format of traditional “10 blue links.” Today, search is smarter and more dynamic — rich with real-time content, news, images, maps and reviews. Search no longer provides users a simple road map to the Internet — users utilize search to find answers to questions, and Google, Yahoo! and Bing have all adapted toward this model to stay relevant in a fiercely competitive environment. (more)
After a recent meeting of the Greenville Tea Party in South Carolina, supporters of GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum handed out fliers and made themselves available to answer questions about their candidates, according to two people in the room. (more)
Social media analysis leading up to the Iowa caucuses strongly indicated that Texas Rep. Ron Paul was the favored candidate. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is preparing for a possible makeover of its board, according to news media reports published Saturday. (more)
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses by a hair, with final tallies being reported in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but Google users across Iowa and the U.S. were more interested in reading about former Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul. (more)
