Job posting may hint at Facebook IPO down the road
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Blog: Tech gossip blog Valleywag points to a posting on Facebook's Web site seeking someone with a strong background in managing stocks logistics at a public company.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in   serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo YHOO.O for an amount   that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal   reported on Thursday.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in  serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo for an amount that could  approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday.
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Social networking site, Facebook, believed to be in negotiations with Microsoft.
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A page on the official developers' wiki hints that the social network will be offering data storage space for applications hosted on the Facebook Platform.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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The social networking site that's more networking than social wants to go public.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has approached FacebookÂ in recent weeks proposing an investment that would give Microsoft a stake of up to 5 percent in the popular social-networking company, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. With Microsoft willing to invest between $300 million and $500 million, the deal would value Facebook at $10 billion or more, the Journal reported, quoting anonymous sources. Google has also expressed an interest in acquiring a Facebook stake recently, according to the Journal. Thus, Microsoft could find itself competing for Facebook's attention with Google. However, Facebook's discussions with Google and Microsoft are in the early stages and could end up with no agreement with either suitor, according to the Journal. IDG News Service's requests for comment from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google weren't immediately answered. Founded in February 2004, Facebook is one of the world's most popular social-networking sites with about 42 million active users. Facebook has been growing strongly in the past 12 months. In December, it had about 12 million active users. The site initially only admitted students, but last September it lifted that restriction. In May of this year, itÂ opened up to third-party developersÂ to create applications for the site, which has also added to its popularity with users. Along the way, it has caught the attention of big Internet playersÂ such asÂ Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. The latter reportedly tried to buy Facebook last year for $1 billion. Facebook's attractiveness is that it builds very strong and deep relationships with its users.Â More thanÂ half of its active members return to the site daily, and Facebook knows a lot about them, thanks to all the personal information people disclose on their site profiles and interactions with other members. This, in turn, offers a desirable audience to advertisers and to ad sellers and distributorsÂ such asÂ Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. A little more than a year ago,Â Facebook chose Microsoft to display banner adsÂ on the site. Facebook would be interested in using the cash raised from selling a stake for buying other companies, increasing its staff of about 300, and beefing up its technical infrastructure, the Journal reported. Facebook is also weighing the option of raising funds from financial investors, the Journal said.
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One of the first companies to introduce a Facebook application, Snap Interactive is hoping it can stave off the competition.
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Some companies can battle Google head-on and survive. Facebook can't.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in  serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo  for an amount  that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal  reported on Thursday.
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An impending update from Facebook will make it possible for you to make your profile look a whole lot neater by hiding excess applications.
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Microsoft Corp. has approached Facebook Inc. in recent weeks proposing an investment that would give Microsoft a 5% stake in the popular social-networking company, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Blog: Interested developers and entrepreneurs get together to talk about what they want to do with the Facebook Platform.
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Wall Street Journal reports  Microsoft may take a stake of up to $500 million in social network, which could push valuation toward the $10 billion mark.
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By Janet Kornblum  Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.
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The online advertising firm has launched a new program for serving ads to third-party developer applications on Facebook--but what will Facebook's own advertising announcement next week mean for this sort of strategy?