Facebook on Monday launched its IPO roadshow in New York City with CEO Mark Zuckerberg turning out to pitch the company's upcoming stock to potential investors. Zuckerberg, sporting jeans and a sweatshirt, arrived at a Sheraton hotel in midtown Ma...
With Facebook's IPO looming just ahead, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says his company is in no hurry to follow Facebook's lead. Costolo, speaking at Wired'sDisruptive by Design conference in New York on Tuesday, said the online company is doing well a...
A 30-minute video about an African warlord and his army blasted its way onto the Internet this week, lighting up social networks like Facebook and Twitter and becoming a YouTube phenomenon. The controversial video, dubbed KONY 2012, has racked up ...
An increasing number of social network users are tightening up their privacy settings , "pruning" their personal profiles and unfriending people, according to the Pew study. About two-thirds of Internet users use social networks, and a huge percen...
A majority of U.S. social networking users say their fellow users mostly kind, and that the sites make them feel good about themselves. A Pew Internet survey of some 2,260 American adults found that 85% of social networkers see fellow users on sit...
Facebook's IPO filing lays out a pretty good image of where CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to take the company: He sees the social network as having significant historical value to the economy, governments and -- he hopes -- to every person connected t...
It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-a...
Just in time for today's Iowa caucus, Google launched a political hub site to help users get information, discuss issues and track candidates' popularity. On Monday, Google launched an election site designed to not only offer users information but...
While Google and Microsoft waged "trench warfare" in the search business this year, both are hoping to come up with a market game changer for 2012. Analysts are split over which firm got the better of 2011, but most agree that the search business ...
Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI (business intelligence) and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global reces...
Google dove into the realm of facial recognition on Thursday, unveiling a tagging suggestion feature for its Google+ social network. Google launched Find My Face, a Google+ tool that's designed to scan photos from users and their friends to find r...
Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices. The new application...
