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Facebook Plans News Feed Redesign Event

Facebook plans to hold an event to unveil a new look for its News Feed product, the company said on Friday in a series of emailed invitations to the press. The event will be held on March 7 at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. This is the second major event the company has hosted at its home base this year, after introducing its Graph Search product in January.

Facebook’s Ever-Evolving Campus Welcome Sign

Like. Poke. Search. It all ends up on Facebook’s front door at some point.
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With Graph Search, Facebook Needs to Go Beyond the “Like”

Facebook “Likes” this. But that’s not enough for good search results.
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Graph Search: Facebook’s Way of Keeping You Inside of Facebook (Video)

Facebook aims to be your own personal Internet, one search at a time.
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Samsung Confirms Four New Bay Area Offices

Samsung is in the process of building four — count ’em, four — new offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, though they are oddly scattered in four different towns all within a half-hour’s drive of each other. We have previously reported on the start-up incubator in Palo Alto; there’s also the 8.5-acre planned campus in Mountain View and a new strategy and innovation center in Menlo Park. And now comes the official announcement of a 1.1-million-square-foot sales and R&D headquarters north of downtown San Jose.

FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.
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Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1 Billion

A blockbuster exit for the popular and elegant mobile photo-sharing service.
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Kleiner Perkins Planning to Raise New Venture Fund

Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers plans to start fund raising for a new early stage fund, said people familiar with the plans.

Lytro Comes Into Focus (AsiaD Demo)

After shrouding its digital camera in secrecy for the last many months, Lytro has made its big reveal, and showed up at AsiaD to give a hands-on demo.
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Yahoo Executive Talks Acquisitions, Slams YouTube Buy

Yahoo is “gearing up for a very big year” of acquisitions, said a senior director of corporate development at the Internet company.

Inside Facebook's Big Move to Menlo Park

Mike Homer Laid to Rest Today

Farewell to Mike Homer