Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has just acquired Instagram- the popular photo sharing app for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is…
Facebook is looking to raise $5 billion after filing papers for an initial public offering on Wednesday. With the IPO set for May, the social network has not yet announced…
Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. As part of its larger entertainment initiative, Facebook will launch a music…
One of the greatest hurdles a start-up company will face is getting customers before the company has even started. Many assume that a company just starting out may not have…
Altly founder Dmitry Shapiro has written a manifesto about the need to have more control over which information you share with which friends.The manifesto sounds like Google’s new social network.…
Earlier today Facebook’s official iPad app was exposed to the public. The latest version of Facebook for iOS contained the “hidden” files that could be used to access Facebook’s iPad…
Facebook has announced today that the company will launch group chat, video calling with Skype and a redesigned chat side bar to make communication on Facebook easy and powerful. Facebook…
StreetFax.com was today listed for sale at the Flippa.com website marketplace. The domain has recently gained worldwide attention as the website that Paul Ceglia contracted Mark Zuckerberg to work on…
# Adam D’Angelo is the co-founder of Quora. # Quora is a question-and-answer site with incentives to get people to share specialist knowledge. It features an activity stream of questions…
Facebook has acquired 11 companies with its largest acquisition being the purchase of FriendFeed. Most of Facebook’s acquisitions have been ‘talent acquisitions’ and acquired products are often shut-down. Facebook CEO…
Tech companies when they’re small can move so much faster. It’s been reinforced for us how much we need to keep moving really fast even as we get big. Otherwise…
Here goes another social network, especially for couples. Honeybuff.com, a startup social networking site officially launched the beta version of it’s new social network targeted to couples today. Honeybuff.com is…
Startup School 2010 was organized by YCombinator The speakers included Ron Conway, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham Andrew Mason, Tom Preston-Werner and Mark Zuckerberg. These lessons were shares by speakers at…