Facebook's New, Entirely Social Ads Will Recreate Marketing Leaked documents show Facebook making a radical departure from traditional online display advertising into a world where ads are conversations and brands automatically tell you which of your friends are already on their side.
Updated Thu Feb 23, 2012
Fab CEO Jason Goldberg On When To Go Big (He Should Know) In the last two weeks, the design flash-sale site has added five verticals and opened a site in Germany. Isn't that expanding kind of fast for a company that's not even a year old?
Updated Wed Feb 22, 2012
Bessemer Ventures: Why We Invested In Pinterest Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good bet.
Updated Fri Feb 17, 2012
Yahoo’s Prediction Engine Calls Presidential Race In Favor Of Obama (Sorry, Mitt) Using smarty-pants economists and computer scientists, Yahoo analyzed historical data and says the math points to the prez taking the White House this fall.
Updated Thu Feb 16, 2012
Former Sun CEO Launches A Site To Manage Your Loved Ones' Health Care Managing the care of an aging parent or child with a chronic illness is getting increasingly complicated. CareZone makes it simple.
Updated Wed Feb 15, 2012
Fab Blasts Through The Commerce-Media Divide With Five New Verticals Commerce used to be separate from content. Now sites like Fab are combining the two--and creating addictive new experiences.
Updated Tue Feb 14, 2012
A Hacker School That Helps Solve Silicon Valley's Hiring Problem Tech companies can't find enough engineers. So why not train them yourself? For free. And then make $20K a pop on recruiting fees.
Updated Fri Feb 10, 2012
Why Facebook's Daily Active Users Is Not The Number That Matters A fracas emerges over the fact that not all daily Facebook users visit the company's website. Advertisers tell us why that's missing the point.
Updated Wed Feb 8, 2012
What Is Facebook's Business? Facebook makes money by placing ads next to your status updates and photos. How hard could their business be? As its S-1 filing reflects, that answer is more challenging than you think.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
3 Things That Will Change After Facebook's IPO, And 2 Things That Won't Once Facebook goes public, the party's over, right? Less innovation and more kowtowing to Wall Street, no? Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg Hacks S-1 Filing With Letter To Shareholders On Eve Of Facebook IPO In the S-1 document that Facebook filed today in advance of its planned public offering, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his personal philosophy--the one he says will guide the company after it goes public.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
Mind This, Gap: Online-Only American Giant Brings Clothes Manufacturing Back To The U.S. The former head of Chrome Bags, Bayard Winthrop, thinks he can build a menswear brand to rival Gap and J.Crew by skipping the brick-and-mortar route.
Updated Wed Feb 1, 2012
Salesforce's Desk.com Turns Any Employee Anywhere Into A Customer Support Ace Desktop software is sold "by the seat." But a "by the hour" pricing structure offered by cloud-based apps means smaller businesses can put everyone on customer support--even the CEO or the weird guy clinging to his red stapler.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Airbnb Clones Making 2012 The Year Of Peer-To-Peer Accommodations Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon. Now we're starting to see some froth in the "peer-to-peer accommodation" market.
Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
Facebook's Open Graph: Boons For Business, Perils For Privacy Integration with Facebook lets apps build their businesses. But users might not be ready to go full open kimono right away.
Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
Facebook Actions: Building Up The Database Of You The social network allows third-party apps to pipe information about what you're doing elsewhere back to the mother ship.
Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
Wrapp Mogul: Why LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Is Investing In The Social Gifting Site Hoffman's previously tossed cash at Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga. Now the Greylock partner sees potential in the data you can collect from watching who gives what kinds of gifts to whom, and when, and why.
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
Google Goes After Your Local Small Business Three years ago, only 54% of small businesses had websites. Now 82% do. But lots of them have no idea how to use Google's most valuable ad tool. So the search giant is launching a slew of services and products to make AdWords easier.
Updated Mon Jan 9, 2012
Data Darlings: Why New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has A Fighting Chance Yahoo announces a new CEO, and Wall Street promptly tanks its stock. Here are three reasons to take a second look.
Updated Thu Jan 5, 2012
Blue Sprig: A Silicon Valley Startup ... In China Having a hard time finding a technical founder in the Bay Area? Do what tech veteran Jason Johnson did and go hunting in China.
Updated Thu Dec 22, 2011
