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The banks helping take Facebook public want us to value this 8-year-old upstart at as much as $104 billion, more than Disney or Kraft Foods, though those companies earn three and four times more. That top valuation is also more than 100 times NEW YORK — Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural [...]

Facebook IPO causes unfriending of morning news. Occupy Wall Street as yet has offered no comment on this latest expansion of Wall Street greed, but we'll keep an eye out for it at their page on, uh, Facebook. Meanwhile It's a May Friday, which would usually mean a slow news day… but not today. Facebook [...]

Facebook doesn't have a web browser, yet, but Google does. It may not be possible to opt-out of Google's identity system and all the information gathering it does, if you're a Chrome user. #. PS: There's a Hacker News thread Now that the news about a new social layer on the web and Facebook's sense [...]

Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook. Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we're told this is one of the Then Facebook rolled out critical changes to the social network's interface before users had a [...]

When I logged on to Facebook this morning, I saw several variations of "Yo, dawg! We heard you like Facebook, so we put Facebook in the upper right corner of your Facebook so you can Facebook while you Facebook. The Washington Post's new Social Reader is an attempt to bring the news to the people, [...]

The most annoying new feature in the Facebook redesign has to be the news ticker (although you can make an argument for some of the other additions as well). Tech blog SumTips came up with three ways to kill this feed. How to Hide the Facebook News Ticker in Firefox and Google Chrome |► Watch [...]

Last week when Google+ was released to the general public, Facebook quietly countered with an announcement that they would unveil an important new product in. Last week when Google+ was released to the general public, Facebook quietly countered with an announcement that they would unveil an important new product in. Last week, CEO of Facebook [...]