When Mark Zuckerberg sat down to record an episode of Freakonomics Radio’s “Secret Life of CEOs” last summer, he couldn’t have predicted every scandal that resulted in the political quagmire… Read More
Everywhere you turn these days, there’s chatter about government regulation of Facebook. But President Donald Trump reportedly has another tech giant in his crosshairs: Amazon. Jonathan Swan at Axios reports… Read More
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News Brief: CNN reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to testify before Congress about data privacy, following reports of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica illegitimately obtaining personal information… Read More
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is opening an investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices, following reports last week that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users’ personal data without permission.… Read More
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data. #DeleteFacebook is trending and those in the tech world are… Read More
Facebook has made a high-profile hire as part of a plan to expand its AI research team in Seattle — adding to an already-fierce competition for talent in the artificial… Read More
Many of us pay a monthly or annual fee for Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime and other online services. So why not pay for Facebook? The concept is resurfacing amid the… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first public statement Wednesday following reports thatRepublican campaign operatives obtained data from 50 million users to inform the campaigns of President Donald Trump and… Read More
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) added her voice to the chorus of lawmakers calling for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on the scandal that has consumed his company over the… Read More
Facebook shares were down more than 7 percent Monday in the wake of damaging reports that Republican campaign operatives obtained data from 50 million users to inform the campaigns of… Read More
When Vijaye Raji came to Facebook in 2011 from Microsoft, he was one of about 15 engineers crammed into a small office near Pike Place. Now Raji is the company’s… Read More
RELATED: Inside Facebook’s newest office building with one of its first Seattle employees Facebook debuted a new office building in Seattle with room for another 900 people today, less than two… Read More
Lingering bad feelings toward Facebook’s response to Russian-linked accounts spreading “fake news” during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign could be having an effect on the social media giant’s most lucrative… Read More
Facebook announced two updates designed to connect users with more trusted local news Monday. The first is a new section called Today In, dedicated to local news, information, and events… Read More
Facebook’s image suffered some serious blows in 2017. So rather than wear a tie everyday or learn a complex foreign language (as he has in years past), Mark Zuckerberg’s personal… Read More
An entity that shares the same infamous address as Facebook — 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, Calif. — has picked up two parcels in Redmond, Wash., just a few… Read More
If you’re tired of seeing posts ordering you to “like if you’re not you before your morning coffee” or “tag your 10 best friends from college,” Facebook has some good… Read More
Amazon is poised to become a live sports powerhouse as soon as next year, a new report predicts, as more tech companies are seeking out streaming rights for top leagues… Read More
Facebook announced Monday that it is rolling out a new app in the U.S. called Messenger Kids, targeting young people — and the parents who hopefully control their devices and… Read More
Like! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook teamed up again for #GivingTuesday, the annual global charitable event aimed at raising money for worthwhile causes. With a plan to… Read More
Facebook already relies on the connections between people to help identify and prevent its users from harming themselves. The social media giant revealed Monday that artificial intelligence is also being… Read More
A month ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called his shot: He wants to get 1 billion people into the virtual reality universe. To make that goal a reality, Facebook-owned Oculus… Read More
Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to the voiceless, elevating causes like the Arab Spring and Black… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today he is “dead serious” about getting to the bottom of Russian government-backed agents’ impact on the 2016 U.S. presidential election through the social platform, and… Read More
Facebook outperformed Wall Street expectations, as it has pretty much every quarter for the past five years, but bigger issues loom for the social giant. Facebook reported earnings of $1.59… Read More
Facebook is diving deeper into used cars through its Marketplace platform, as the social giant looks to separate itself in a crowded market for online buying and selling. Cars have… Read More
Mathew Inman, the Seattle-based creator of the popular comic “The Oatmeal,” took a shot at Facebook in a new strip and in the truest sense of something being meta, Facebook’s… Read More
Last week, Facebook held a civic hackathon, inviting in-house engineers as well as representatives from other tech companies to combine Seattle’s robust offering of open data with machine learning to… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to apologize in the comments of his own post on Tuesday after a demo showing off the company’s new virtual reality app Spaces drew… Read More