Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 9, 2011 at 2:03 pm PT
How about doubling the number of paying gamers? Done!
Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 8:30 am PT
Earlier this week there was some confusion about outlets reporting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had filed another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their social networking idea. The brief was actually filed back in June, but it’s still interesting reading.
Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2010 at 3:49 pm PT
This Sunday, the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” returns to Facebook after several years to check in on co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
In the first interview by correspondent Lesley Stahl in early 2008, Zuckerberg’s social networking empire was much smaller, beset by a series of management snafus and mired in yet another privacy controversy. Plus, he was more than a lot more awkward.
Fast-forward to today: Zuckerberg rules one of the most powerful tech companies in the world and BoomTown dubs him a prodigy!
The worm has officially turned.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT
Zynga may make “social games,” but they do not foster much in the way of complex or rewarding social interaction. The company is trying to change that, and today is announcing its next game, CityVille, which it calls its most social to date. CityVille (of course) is a cutesy simulation game in which users work to turn a small town into a big city.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 8, 2010 at 12:06 am PT
Hi there, I’m Liz Gannes. My beat at
All Things D is All Things Social, and you’ll be able to find my stories under the heading NetworkEffect, named after the idea that a community of users makes a service valuable for everyone who joins.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2010 at 10:19 am PT
Facebook paid around $20 million for Drop.io, just so it could shut down the service and hire founder Sam Lessin–a deal that’s not terribly unusual. What is unusual: Lessin’s old Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg funded the purchase with precious Facebook shares.
Lauren A.E. Schuker and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 24, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
Facebook Inc. executives have sought to discredit a new film’s unflattering portrayal of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, even as they worked behind the scenes to influence the movie.
Those efforts range from attempting to massage the script, according to one of the film’s producers, to promoting an alternative corporate history.
Kara Swisher in News on September 13, 2010 at 4:52 am PT
The New Yorker finally came out with its profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, “The Face of Facebook.” And while the piece by Jose Antonio Vargas reads well, there is not much new in it for those who have followed the career of the young wunderkind of social networking.
Except the irony of the “The West Wing” Like button part.
John Paczkowski in News on August 24, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
Downloads from Apple’s iTunes U program topped the 300 million mark today—a formidable feat for a virtual insitution of higher learning that’s just three years old.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 27, 2010 at 10:35 am PT
The disclosure of 76,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks has set off a round of damage control by the White House. But what does the release mean for citizen journalism online, and how does technology play into such leaks?
