New rules implemented by the Obama administration allow virtually anyone to invest in privately held startups — a privilege once reserved for the wealthy.
In his latest charm offensive, the Facebook founder has invited high-profile conservatives to have a “direct conversation.”
Third-party analytics firms could shed light on whether Facebook editors gave Black Lives Matter a boost. But they won’t.
After Gizmodo reported that Facebook curators manipulate “Trending Topics,” a Senate panel wants answers from the company's CEO.
Advertisers can now insert their product feed into Instagram and target particular items to users based on browsing history.
In Viv’s first live demo, founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus demonstrated Viv working across several apps of its “friends” while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, the annual tech conference.
A Chinese beverage company had registered “face book” as its trademark in 2014, a move that a Beijing court ruled “violated moral principles.”
A San Francisco federal judge rejected a request by the internet company to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its collection of biometric information.
Coinbase and Ripple Labs, both based in San Francisco, are said to be close to receiving the state's No. 2 and No. 3 "cryptocurrency" licenses.
In conversation with students at Columbia University, 25-year-old Evan Spiegel shared his tips for starting a company while in college.
A Facebook shareholder filed a proposed class action over a move the lawsuit called an unfair deal to entrench CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the company’s controlling shareholder.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly met with the founder of Telegram, a messaging app with over 100 million users, to discuss a $1 billion acquisition.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company grew its user base 15 percent over the past year to 1.65 billion, and is using that data to fuel its ad business.
Virtual reality is the “ultimate social platform where physical differences disappear,” said Yaser Sheikh of Facebook’s Oculus Research team.
Messenger Platform will allow developers to build chatbots within Facebook’s group communications app.
Free Basics Simulator, released Tuesday by Mark Zuckerberg at F8, lets developers test how their sites would function in areas with limited bandwidth.
The social networking site's app will now have a dedicated tab for watching and recording live video.
Facebook bought its Oculus unit for about $2 billion, a couple of years after the virtual reality company launched a campaign on Kickstarter to raise $250,000.
The social networking giant will now show a publisher how many times its video is watched on a particular day.
YouTube is building a mobile live-streaming app nearly a year after Twitter and Facebook released their own.
The Facebook tool, which is searchable, lets users assure loved ones of their condition and also indicate their location.
Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with the Chinese propaganda chief was praised by the country's official media.