“Facebook” on The Daily Caller

When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network’s worldwide reach, was all but unknown to the public. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s reach is wide but not deep. Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on the site’s ads or buy the virtual goods that make money for it. (more)

General Motors has announced that it would be pulling its paid advertising from Facebook, saying that it had too little impact. The announcement could not come at a worse time for the social media giant, which is expected to file its initial public offering on Friday. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger. (more)

Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network’s expected asking price is too high. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is updating its data use policy in an attempt to give people more clarity on how the company uses information they share. (more)

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s latest jab at the National Organization for Women has attracted more Facebook “likes” in 24 hours than NOW’s main page has collected in a little under four years. (more)

The FBI is quietly working to require Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online giants to make it easier for federal law enforcement to wiretap their websites. And major tech companies have been silent on the issue so far. (more)

BOSTON—Facebook Inc.’s roadshow hit Boston on Tuesday—this time with a presentation that didn’t include Mark Zuckerberg, skipped a stale video and provided attendees with more time for questions than Monday’s New York session offered. Some said they felt emboldened to invest. (more)

IDG News Service - Yahoo is said to have written to Facebook indicating that it believes that 16 patents it claims to hold “may be relevant” to open source technology allegedly being used in the data centers and servers of the social networking company, according to a regulatory filing by Facebook on Thursday. (more)

Mark Zuckerberg has long said that making money on Facebook is secondary to the experience of its users. Advertising only serves to enable the social network’s broader mission of making the world more “open and connected”, he says. (more)

Economists have had it with the forceful gaze of government regulators directed at Google. (more)

In the 24 hours or so since Facebook filed its long-awaited S-1 and started on the way to a second-quarter public offering, some of the focus has been on the near-certainty that the bulk of the social network’s shares being sold will be snatched up by big institutions and high net-worth individuals. There are some signals though, that retail investors will not be shut out of the offering entirely. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook, the company that turned the social Web into a cultural and business phenomenon, is worth as much as $95 billion, according to the price range for its upcoming initial public offering of stock. (more)

Capitol Hill lawmakers took favorable notice Tuesday of Facebook’s new program to allow users to share with their friends the fact that they are organ donors. (more)

(CNN) – On average, 18 people in the United States die each day waiting for an organ transplant. (more)

The Obama campaign’s high level of social media penetration might not be directly translating into big-dollar donations, a new report suggests. (more)

Facebook “likes” can possibly get you fired, and if you take your employer to court over the punishment you may have an uphill legal battle. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is bringing out more artillery in its patent battle with Facebook. (more)