The fragmentation of the mobile environment into proprietary development platforms threatens the overall app economy by straining the labor market, says Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire. He argues Facebook’s move away from HTML5 is driven by self-interest. Read more at GigaOM »
Some prominent users of Facebook such as billionaire sports-team owner Mark Cuban are complaining that the social network wants to charge them to reach their users with marketing messages — but shouldn’t it be fairly obvious that this was part of Facebook’s plan all along? Read more at GigaOM »
Any web service that is growing as quickly as Tumblr is should be of interest to Facebook — but especially one that focuses on creating and sharing viral social content, and one that is appealing to growing numbers of young users. Read more at GigaOM »
As more sources of news start to go direct by posting their thoughts to their blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages, a journalist’s role becomes more about deciding what to amplify and what to ignore. Read more at GigaOM »
British arch-satirist Armando Iannucci – best known for his documentary-style dissections of the political classes — is getting ready to take on his next project: a black comedy based on Silicon Valley’s worst moments of excess. Fish, meet barrel. Read more at GigaOM »
Insiders can now sell Facebook stock and the reaction so far hasn’t been pretty. Here’s a quick look at what the financial press is saying. Read more at GigaOM »
After growth slowed just in time for its IPO, Facebook must look overseas for a jump-start. Here are the only five remaining countries where Zuckerberg is not top dog – and the rivals that stand in his way. Read more »
Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their computers and iPhones. We have a plain english Q&A. Read more at GigaOM »
By now you might have heard of this little thing called Facebook’s IPO. Check out links to our coverage so far. Read more at GigaOM »
Facebook’s advertising woes, including the highly publicized departure of General Motors, reinforce the fact that while Facebook may function like a social network, on the business side it looks almost exactly like a media company — and that is going to be a major challenge. Read more at GigaOM »
What is about Instagram that has made Facebook open up its checkbook and spend nearly a billion dollars in stock and cash to buy up a company only in its third year. There are many reasons, and the biggest one is fear. Read more at GigaOM »
The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
Share and share alike. The Mark Zuckerberg philosophy now extends way beyond users’ occasional, individual sharing actions. Facebook wants u… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) could double its own projected growth rate by feeding out viewers’ usage habits to Facebook, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings,… Read more »
It’s Facebook’s morning in Silicon Valley, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco… Read more »
As the tech press converge to hear the latest from Facebook at its f8 developer confab today, millions of Facebook users are already grappli… Read more »
Facebook has said for months that the contract Paul Ceglia presented to the world in April is an elaborate fraud-a “cut-and-paste job.” Now,… Read more »
Paul Ceglia-the upstate New Yorker who has sued Facebook, saying he actually owns half of Mark Zuckerberg’s share of the company-still hasn’… Read more »
Kicking off what he promised would be the start of “launching season 2011″ as well as the start of a new era of social networking, Facebook… Read more »
In the ongoing drama of Paul Ceglia, the New York wood-pellet salesman who claims he owns a huge chunk of Facebook, both sides are going to… Read more »
When Paul Ceglia first claimed he owned half of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares, not too many people paid attention. But when he hired law… Read more »
Earlier this week, when Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss abandoned their idea to head to the U.S. Supreme Court, it seemed to the world like the… Read more »
At long last, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have given up. The twins, who have spent years challenging Facebook in court, have decided they w… Read more »
Earlier today, Facebook offered a significant new filing in the Ceglia case. The documents show that Facebook has hired a bevy of experts an… Read more »
Last month, Paul Ceglia’s lawsuit saying he owns half of Facebook got the attention of the national and international press, mainly because… Read more »
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg makes the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s latest issue, profiled in an article by Brad Stone that describes h… Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg might have to create a “Don’t like” button for people claiming they own all or a fraction of Facebook. Having already seen o… Read more »
Last month, Facebook told developers they’d be able to get users’ current address and mobile-phone numbers. Even though the feature would ha… Read more »
After a mostly unflattering portrayal in a movie that became a box office hit, more concerns about privacy and advertising, Facebook’s Mark… Read more »
Leave it to 60 Minutes to pass off Facebook’s utterly meaningless redesign of the site’s profile pages as some kind of “exclusive” worth lea… Read more »
Well, this is surreal – the new UK prime minister David Cameron doing an old-buddies routine with Facebook’s CEO, part of a UK exercise usin… Read more »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on a talking circuit; he followed up an exclusive interview with Inside Facebook yesterday with a presentati… Read more »
You’ve read about it and seen the highlights. Now All Things Digital has released the full version of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s epic se… Read more »
In the cold light of day, Mark Zuckerberg’s squirming on the D8 hot seat doesn’t look any more successful than it did last night. This lates… Read more »
And for his next trick, Mark Zuckerberg will boost the size of Facebook’s 1,000-person staff by as much as 50 percent this year while trying… Read more »
How do you mesh transparency with grand ambition, an unwieldy community of more than 175 million — and the need to make money? Very, very c… Read more »
Following a much-discussed change in Facebook’s terms of service, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the company blog Monday in an effort to… Read more »
In the oblivious parallel universe, growth has nothing to do with revenues, and so it is for Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, in an intervi… Read more »
Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD:
Facebook’s still-new COO Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in… Read more »
(Update: The video of the session is here online, on Austin-American’s website.) Take a wild guess why that’s a picture of a screen broadcas… Read more »
