Though Facebook began as a free social network, but since becoming profitable in 2009 due to advertising revenue, the site has begun a slow trajectory toward ecommerce... more >>

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online. To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information. Starting with... more >>

Facebook is meeting with top app developers on its platform to discuss a series of planned changes that could drastically alter the virality of social games.... more >>

Facebook says more than 65 million people around the world now regularly use a mobile device to access the social network, more than triple the number who connected through a smart-phone or other mobile device nine months ago.... more >>

Facebook 3.0, the latest version of the iPhone application from the popular social networking site, is now available from the Apple iTunes App Store.... more >>

Social network Facebook Inc., already a growing threat to established Internet portals, might also be setting its sights on eBay Inc.'s (EBAY) PayPal online payments unit.... more >>

Nobody who really knows is talking about what RockMelt's browser will actually do, but I have an idea: It will be an applications platform more than merely a way to surf the web. And it may even become an operating system for Facebook users.... more >>

Facebook has turned up the heat on Google by purchasing content-sharing service FriendFeed, say industry watchers.... more >>

The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a total of 340 million unique visitors worldwide.... more >>

Half of the social networking site's users log on every day, but rival Twitter is growing at twice the rate.... more >>