The Federal Trade Commission secretly interviewed Mark Zuckerberg while probing Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram — grilling the tech tycoon over the social network’s motives in the ...

As the controversy over Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of Facebook data grows, other groups’ use of the social network have also been thrust into the spotlight, including President Barack ...

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With its public offering this May, Facebook went from the world's biggest social network to the world's most closely watched young company in America. But, really, even before it filed for its IPO ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will give testimony to three Congressional committees in two hearings this week. He'll address how Facebook's user data was improperly accessed by Cambridge Analytica. The ...

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Mark Zuckerberg privately told colleagues that Instagram "can hurt us meaningfully without becoming a huge business" shortly before Facebook acquired the photo-sharing app in 2012. Newly public emails ...

Everyone laughed when Facebook held its IPO in May 2012. In fact, the stock fell by over 50% in the months that followed. It traded as low as $18 a share by August 2012. But then something happened.

This article is more than 10 years old. As for the study, Facebook says its Data Science Team is even bigger now that it was in 2012, with more researchers trying to come up with ways to study user ...

A billion. With a “B”. That is how many people on planet Earth will be using the Facebook social network by sometime around August this year. Facebook revealed at its F8 conference in September that ...