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Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg addressed the graduating students of Harvard Business School. Addressing the students, Sheryl Sheryl Sandberg, a Harvard alumna (HBS ’95), talked a bit about how the world has changed from when she was a student at Harvard Business School and a lot more about her career at Google and Facebook. Sheryl Sandberg [...]
Facebook is celebrating it IPO by acquiring the Mobile app startup Karma, which makes ecommerce go social. Karma has iOS and Android apps that can easily connect to Facebook and remember important moments and makes gifting among family and friends a lot easier. Karma was founded in 2011 by Lee Linden and Ben Lewis and [...]
Facebook is fresh off buying Instagram for a billion and busy preparing for filing its IPO. Still, Facebook found time to acquire LightBox, a mobile photo sharing startup company, for its talent. LightBox is a UK based startup founded by Thai Tran & Nilesh Patel in March 2011. LightBox started as Android app for photo [...]
The much awaited Facebook IPO has happened today. On its eighth birthday, Facebook came out of the closet and decided to go public to raise $5 Billion. While filing for IPO Facebook also revealed a number of mindboggling stats on its user base, its revenues, and more. Here is the Facebook IPO by the numbers. [...]
Facebook announced that it is opening the registration for Facebook’s second annual Hackers Cup. Facebook Hackers Cup is a global programming contest to solve challenging algorithmic problems. Hackers Cup has five rounds of programming challenges and the winner who hacks through the challenges get to be be World champion and win $5000. Runners up get [...]
It’s official. Gowalla, the location based social app start up, announced in its blog that it has been acquired by Facebook. The acquisition news was first reported by CNN Money last Friday and Gowalla has made it official. Gowalla is a Austin based Geo-Social startup company founded by Josh Williams and Scott Raymond in 2009, [...]
Princeton University’s team comprising of four students won this year’s Facebook Hackathon for college students. Fourteen college teams competed at the final Facbook hackathon event at Facebook’s headquarterd in Palo Alto, CA. The field for final competition was competitive with 13 college teams from the top US universities, including MIT, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. Princeton [...]
Facebook has settled the charges made by Federal Trade Commission and promised to behave better on privacy issues in the future. FTC accused Facebook of deceiving users by telling them their private information is private while repeatedly allowing it to be public. Listing seven privacy violations of Facebook, FTC claimed that Facebook violated federal law. [...]
Facebook has acquired Friend.ly a Mountainview based startup company that help you find right questions to ask based on Facebook profiles. Friend.ly started two years ago by Bryan Guillemette, Ed Baker, and Joachim De Lombaert and is now a 10 member team. Announcing the acquisition news in its blog post, Friend.ly said Friend.ly service will [...]
Facebook has finally made Facebook for iPad ready for Facebook users. Launching the Facebook app for iPad, Facebook said with the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips. It’s a fun way to keep up with friends, share photos, chat and more. Some of the highlights of the new Facebook for [...]