A Facebook page helps owners find photographs they lost in the Joplin tornado. CNN's Jim Spellman Reports.
A plunge in Facebook's stock didn't faze the broader U.S. market Monday. U.S. stocks bounced back from their worst week of the year on renewed optimism that European leaders would find a way out of the sovereign debt crisis.
Does the Web have room for one more social network? Microsoft thinks so.
Amid the buzz over the Facebook IPO, the ever-evolving theories about how Twitter is reshaping our communications and speculation about where the next social media-enabled protest or revolution will occur, there is an important question we've largely ignored. What are the real effects of all this on the huge segment of the population most affected by social media themselves: our children and our teens?
CNN's Ali Velshi explains how Facebook share prices could have been below IPO at the end of the first trading day.
Nasdaq OMX's chief executive admitted he was "embarrassed" by the delay in the opening trade of Facebook's initial public offering and revealed that the exchange was in talks with regulators over potentially millions of dollars of customer claims.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announces his marriage to Priscilla Chan.
Now that Facebook is friends with Wall Street, this journalist is giving her timeline a rethink.
A look at the economic impact of the Facebook IPO, from taxes to the broader economy. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
A day after his social media company went public, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday.
Stocks closed out an ugly week. Despite initial euphoria surrounding the debut of Facebook on the public markets, the social network's shares barely popped above its offering price and failed to inspire investors to buy into the broader market.
Facebook is finally trading. And even though the stock didn't explode out of the gate, the company is still worth more than $100 billion. It shouldn't be.
A bad breakup: Nothing can be as emotionally tumultuous for a young heart.
It's no shock that people love to hate Facebook.
CNNMoney looks at the people who make up the biggest investors in Facebook.
CNN's Richard Quest takes a look at Facebook's growth from a dorm room project to multi-billion dollar IPO.
As the stock market opened Friday with a ring of the bell by Mark Zuckerberg, all eyes were on Facebook -- the social media Megalodon he nursed from a dorm-room project to one of Wall Street's hottest prospects ever.
U.S. stocks were poised for a higher open Friday as investor excitement over the Facebook initial public offering countered continued worries about the European sovereign debt crisis.
At some companies, the night before a multibillion-dollar stock offering might come with lavish parties and champagne.
CNN's Dan Simon talks to Wolf Blitzer about Facebok employees prepping for an all-night "hackathon" coding session.
Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Facebook.
CNN's Erin Burnett talks to the woman at the center of Time magazine's breast-feeding cover story.
Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might not quit the world's largest social network.
CNN's Dan Simon looks at how Facebook manages to remain the undisputed social network leader.
Every post you "like." Every friend you add or fan page you join. Every place you check in, and every Web page you recommend.
Rachel Sklar, Henry Blodget and Christine Romans discuss the upcoming Facebook IPO and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's notorious hoodie.
General Motors said Tuesday that it will stop paid advertising on Facebook.
Nearly half of Americans believe that popular social-networking site Facebook is merely a passing fad, a new study suggests.
Facebook isn't exactly picking the best time to go public. But it looks like it probably won't matter.
Facebook advocates are touting the company's initial public offering this week -- the biggest ever for an Internet company-- as if it will save the net, the economy and the American way. Its detractors see the final chapter in the rise and fall of a smart but solipsistic Harvard dropout, and predict the inevitable decline of Facebook's stock will spell the end to innovation in social media. Internet Bubble 2.0.
Christine Romans explains in detail who will be able to purchase Facebook stock the day of the social media giant's IPO.
By 2023, hideously powerful technology companies like the Weyland Corporation will rule the world. At least that's the storyline in "Prometheus," Ridley Scott's much-anticipated prequel to "Aliens," which will be released next month.
A video of a teenage Malaysian mother beating her baby daughter has generated a storm of outrage online a year after it was filmed, prompting the Malaysian Police to announce that the woman is already serving an 18-month prison sentence for the offense.
Tech expert Jamie Turner says sites like Tagged could challenge Facebook's status as king of all social media.
As Facebook plans to go public with its stock, CNN's Ali Velshi takes a look at what's going on behind the scenes.
According to comScore's new Mobile Metrix 2.0 report released Monday, Facebook's mobile usage is on the rise. In fact, the report revealed that Facebook users spent more time accessing the social network on smartphones than on computers in March.
Pricing for Facebook's premium "social" advertisements continues to rise, two recent studies have found -- a positive indicator that could offset concerns about a dip in advertising growth and help sentiment towards the internet company's initial public offering.
About one out of every four Facebook users lies on their profile, and not just to impress that guy or gal who wouldn't date them in high school.
I sort of "like" Facebook as a company and service.
On average, 18 people in the United States die each day waiting for an organ transplant.
Mark Zuckerberg talks to ABC's "Good Morning America" about Facebook's new feature promoting organ donation.
Christine Romans looks at how Facebook is gearing up for an IPO despite slowing growth.
As Wall Street makes final preparations for the largest technology debut by value in history, it has also faced what some bankers and investors have come to see as a series of snubs from Facebook.
Raise your hand if someone you know was laid off in the last month. The odds are pretty good (meaning awful). Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that hiring slowed dramatically in March.
A controversial anti-Obama Facebook post from a U.S. Marine is now under Pentagon review. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports.
USMC Staff Sgt. Gary Stein is fighting a less than honorable discharge for criticizing the president on Facebook.
What would happen if you posted derogatory comments about your boss on a Facebook page that you knew would be read by your co-workers?
A Marine who used his Facebook page to criticize President Barack Obama has been discharged, a Marine Corps spokesman said Wednesday.
Ah, springtime! When a young single person's fancy turns to quiet desperation. The darling buds of April have shaken off their veils of snow, and you, dear reader, have done likewise with your veils of fleece and SAD-induced despair.
I like to watch Dr. Phil drunk.
MTV is hoping to give its get-out-the-vote campaign a viral boost with an online game, inspired by fantasy sports, that rewards players for participating in the 2012 elections.
Lisa Belkin discusses the hot button women's issues - motherhood and health care - and if they will matter in the election.
I make a living encouraging politicians and candidates to use social media.
Facebook unveiled changes to its terms-of-use document on Friday, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease users' concerns about privacy and how their information is used.
Space Shuttle Discovery started out as a way to discover what lies beyond us. Its last flight, taken earlier this week, helped to discover what now lies within us.
The comment on the Facebook page of the Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang last July was unequivocal. "The death penalty is the only just sentence in this case!!!!!!" it said. Written by Thomas Indrebo, the "case" to which the message referred was the meticulously planned mass murder of 77 people in Oslo on July 22, 2011by Anders Behring Breivik.
If reports Wednesday are to be believed, one of the tech industry's biggest deals in recent history was hammered out almost exclusively by two 20-somethings over the course of what amounts to a long weekend.
Is Google's future so bright, it has to wear shades?
If you've seen "The Social Network" or taken a few minutes to really look at your Facebook page, you may have started to figure out that what you get out of Facebook and what Facebook gets out of you are very different things. As a MetaFilter commenter once said, "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."
Something strange happened Monday on the Internet.
William Shatner's Priceline Negotiator character plunged off a bridge in a TV commercial earlier this year. Are Priceline shareholders at risk of following him over the edge?
Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel talks about the rapid rise of the social media site Pinterest.
In the Silicon Valley hierarchy, coders have always ruled the roost, but right now there's a different skill set on the industry's most-wanted list: designers.
Facebook is about to force users onto its new Timeline profile, but plenty of FB peeps are unhappy.
It's one of the most polarizing issues among people today. It's drawn online protests and immense frustration. And once you've formed an opinion about it, it's hard to change your mind.
In the old days, being passive-aggressive took effort. An annoyance -- like, say, a neighbor who has elected to make the stairwell his own personal broom closet -- would fester and fester until one was finally forced into action.
HLN's Vinnie Politan gets some legal advice on what you should do if your employer asks for your social media passwords.
For all the creative destruction that the Internet has wrought over the last decade, there has been one constant: Google's remarkable dominance of the internet economy.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A high school classmate of Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano threatened to reveal an alleged homosexual relationship they had and to write a book about it unless Pavano apologized to him and bought him a navy Range Rover SUV with tan leather, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by police in Connecticut.
Facebook will permanently halt trades of its stock on private secondary markets at the end of this week. The move is to allow the social network to finalise its shareholder list and tighten information pathways leading up to its initial public offering, expected in May.
To the dismay of some, Facebook has no "Dislike" button. But a new application for the social network may prove to be the next-best thing.
If you've got a question about buying a camera, shooting out a quick note to the retailer on Facebook might help. But if you're in the market for a silky camisole? Maybe not.
The patent war between Facebook and Yahoo may be only just starting.
Facebook has weighed in on a practice by some businesses asking employees or job applicants for their passwords to the popular social-media site.
In a picture posted on Facebook, a man in a white shirt holds his daughter in his arms. She holds an Israeli flag. The caption reads: "Iranians we will never bomb your country. We ? you."
Your Facebook password is none of your new boss' business.
Facebook's IPO filing offers a glimpse into its total worth. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports.
Do you have tons of Facebook friends and often update your status? If so, you may be a narcissist, a new study suggests.
One day last year, Amanda Coleman decided to quit Facebook.
While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent warehouse.
Nathan Daschle and Wesley Donehue talk about ongoing resistence to the use of social media and online ads in campaigns.
A Minnesota middle school student, with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing her school district over a search of her Facebook and e-mail accounts by school employees.
There were once seven words you couldn't say on television, as the late comedy icon George Carlin famously lampooned 40 years ago.
Sharing is a wonderful thing -- when executed correctly. It's super fun to share hugs (when they are wanted, it's important to note), delicious desserts and interesting, thought-provoking books but not so fun to share colds, STDs and/or upsetting, possibly dangerous secrets.
A teenage girl is lucky to be alive after she fled from an alleged predator in a Texas motel, authorities said.
It's just over a week until one of the biggest geek gatherings of the year, South By Southwest Interactive, kicks off in Austin, Texas.
Fortune: Wal-Mart's makeoverupdated: Mon Mar 05 2012 13:17:00
What happened to the smiley face? It's long gone from Wal-Mart marketing after years as the corporate symbol, and its disappearance is part of a much larger story. It's hard to believe, but for decades the world's largest retailer wasn't much of a marketer. It spent little on marketing, and its efforts, epitomized by the grinning circle, could be charitably called down-home and realistically described as amateurish. Change finally began four years ago when Stephen Quinn was made chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart U.S. He exiled the smiley face to the land of e-mail emoticons and developed a new theme -- "Save money. Live better" -- that became a statement of corporate purpose. Current TV commercials actually include some wit while hammering home the message.
Shares of Renren, one of China's largest social-networking services, jumped Friday on news that it will be in the new Windows 8 app store.
Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, explains how his company's upcoming new website will make it into a game network.
Zynga, maker of "FarmVille," is trying to diversify beyond its signature Facebook games.
Facebook's upcoming IPO could be a golden egg for the Golden State.
Facebook shot back at Yahoo Tuesday in the wake of Yahoo's patent battle against the social media company.
It's a truth of the modern digital age: If you're using a Web service for free, you're not the customer. You're probably the product.
Your secured digital data could soon be exported from the office basement into larger data centers around the world.
Social networking giant Facebook may soon file papers to go public. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
We all knew he'd eventually get around to it: Mark Zuckerberg is expected to finally bring Facebook public. The company is reported to be preparing to file for an IPO -- initial public offering -- through which anyone will be able to buy shares of the social networking company on an open stock exchange.
Last week, Google was caught circumventing Apple's Safari browser privacy settings. Microsoft chimed in Monday with a "me too" complaint, saying that Google is also dodging around Internet Explorer's privacy settings.
Taking a cue from Twitter, Facebook will be rolling out "verified accounts" for its most popular users -- presumably hoping to encourage the Lady Gagas of the world to get active on the site.
Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka discusses the game's launch on Facebook and why they rejected a $2 billion buyout from Zynga.
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