Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But…

In a new business-oriented social media site, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) aims to index “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web.” A better definition might be “what people are doing on Twitter.”

Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the growth we’ve seen in the space, you can argue that it might be missing a trick.

Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.

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Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…

It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…

Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesday morning.

Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers have been anticipating for half a decade and will make millionaires out of many, many early Facebook employees.

It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone—and crucially what formats will work best alongside people’s communications with each other—but for now we are at least seeing some big growth in the space.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-breaking web pages from search results.

The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.

Angry game owners are demanding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) compensate them for wiping out their investments in online pets. The loss of a virtual kitty may seem like a trifle to some but, in the big picture, the new lawsuit could be a bellwether for how the law treats what is…

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…

Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.

Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson earlier today gave frank—and, the hopeful might say, encouraging—run down of the task ahead to turn around Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), an internet portal that was once on top of its game but has lately seem some serious decline. Some numbers provided today by eMarketer spell out…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will use email and a message on its home page to notify users about a new privacy policy that will go into effect this March. While Google is framing the changes as a simple housekeeping measure, the company is also using them to achieve larger strategic goals.

Facebook remains locked in a legal dispute with a Chicago website over who owns the word “timeline,” the name used by the social network to describe a feature that lets users make a digital scrapbook of their life.

Facebook is lagging in the video-streaming race, with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Hulu all making major investments to acquire and develop original video content. But if Facebook can reach an exclusive deal with Vevo, the web’s largest aggregator of music videos…