Tag Archives: Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Here is what China is getting right
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive...
Facebook security exec Regina Wallace-Jones: Why technical skills aren’t enough to be a great engineer
The head of...
Want to make a lot of dough at Facebook? The company literally needs a bread chef
With a net worth hovering around $ 49 billion, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is certainly worth...
Egyptian enrolled in US flight school to be deported after taking to Facebook to threaten Trump
An Egyptian student enrolled in a US flight school is in custody and facing deportation after posting threatening comments against Donald Trump to Facebook, according to a story in The Guardian newspaper.
Emad El-Sayed said...
As US government asks tech leaders to join war on terror, ISIS threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs
The US government needs reinforcements from the tech sector to help thwart the Islamic State’s (ISIS) online campaign for hearts and minds.
Representatives of the US Department...
Facebook and Nate Silver’s interactive map tracks likes for each presidential candidate; number and location
Facebook has built an interactive map for users to track the number of likes for each of the candidates for US President and which area those likes come from. To do this, the social network has teamed with FiveThirtyEight, the data analysis and polling outfit...
Q&A: How Facebook handles product security, with help from outside bug hunters
Peter Oehlert is the director of product security for Facebook, leading the social network’s efforts to ensure the security of the apps and features used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world. A former Microsoft security software engineer with experience in consulting and startups, he...
Facebook shares up 14 percent in pre-market trading
Facebook shares rose 14 percent, to top $ 107, in pre-market trading Thursday, a day after the social network reported explosive growth in mobile advertising revenue. In its fourth quarter report on Wednesday, Facebook reported that mobile ads accounted for nearly 80 percent of total ad revenue in the company’s latest quarter. That’s up from the 69 percent mobile accounted a year ago. The...
Facebook crushes Q4 earnings expectations with $5.8B in revenue and 1.59B users
Facebook crushed Wall Street expectations for its fourth quarter earnings report today, sending the company’s stock up more than 5 percent in after-hours trading. The social media giant posted $ 5.84 billion in revenue last quarter — up 52 percent from the year-ago quarter — and earnings of 79 cents...