Liz Gannes in Social on February 8 at 11:56 am PT
A lawsuit against Benchmark Capital and its portfolio company Nextdoor — filed by a founder claiming they stole his name and idea for a start-up — was dropped on Tuesday.
Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher in Social on December 9, 2011 at 12:38 pm PT
Product is power at the social networking giant — so here’s who has it and here’s what they rule over.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 8, 2011 at 10:36 am PT
Facebook today confirmed our report from last night that it has shaken up its organization around major product areas.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on November 22, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Before its current phone project, Facebook had a special ops team that explored building its phone with hardware tightly integrated with software. When it didn’t work out, many from that team left the company.
Liz Gannes and Ina Fried in Mobile on November 21, 2011 at 1:46 pm PT
Facebook is working with HTC to build mobile devices with a “social operating system,” the long-rumored “Facebook Phone” project that the social networking giant has never officially acknowledged.
Liz Gannes in News on November 11, 2011 at 3:52 pm PT
Fatdoor founder Raj Abhyanker on Thursday filed a complaint against Benchmark Capital for interference, fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets after seeing the Silicon Valley venture firm fund Nextdoor, the local social network launched last month.
Liz Gannes in Social on October 19, 2011 at 3:07 pm PT
It’s a myth that most Facebook users never change their default privacy settings. Actually, according to CTO Bret Taylor, the majority of Facebook’s 800 million users have modified who sees what.
Liz Gannes in Social on October 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
Where before, users had to use their computers for most of their Facebook gaming and app needs, now they should be able to play and participate from almost any device with a Web browser.
Ina Fried in Mobile on September 22, 2011 at 11:50 am PT
Among its flurry of announcements on Thursday, Facebook announced plans to help users find apps and other content based on how popular those things are with one’s own social circle.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 17, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
Upstart social apps don’t seem to be following Facebook’s lead in using HTML5 for mobile. Many of the new mobile social apps I’ve seen launch for iPhone alone, and hardly any are mobile-Web-only.
