Facebook Ops Chief Will Leave Company

Key Facebook executive Jonathan Heiliger, who was responsible for its technical operations for the last four years, will leave the company at the end of the summer.

Facebook's New Data Center: Smarter, Greener and Doggone It, People Like It

The company that is all about sharing decides to share its data-center efficiency tips with the rest of the infrastructure world. Here’s the live report of the announcement.

Eyes on an IPO, Jive Software Adds Four Directors, All With Public Company Experience

Looking more like a public company every day, the social enterprise software company has added executives from McAfee, Facebook and Google to its board of directors.

The Curious Case of Facebook's Benjamin Ling and Sheryl Sandberg

Here’s one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That’s the joking question–Was global warming Sandberg’s fault too?–that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling’s departure, on the heels of some other previous employee exits, suddenly morphed into a series of increasingly vituperative posts on the Valleywag tech gossip site that all centered on what blogger Owen Thomas called Sandberg’s “reign of terror” at Facebook. The truth of the situation, though, is actually a lot more interesting.