Topic: facebook

SD Times Blog: What was Facebook thinking?

The plans for the VR headset are vague, but not much good can come from this acquisition … continue reading

Facebook to acquire Oculus

Acquisition positions Facebook to accelerate Oculus’ growth in gaming, communications and new social experiences … continue reading

Facebook releases Hack, its combined programming language

Open-source language integrates with PHP and runs on HHVM, combining fast development and static type … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: With social media, it’s about making and spending lots of money

How does Facebook’s deal with WhatsApp compare to other big-ticket acquisitions over the years? … continue reading

U.S. Department of Justice announces new disclosure deal with tech companies

Companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo can now disclose NSA data requests, eventually … continue reading

Eight top tech companies team up to urge reform for government surveillance

Group aims to change policies and practices for monitoring around the world … continue reading

From the Editors: If it inflates like a bubble…

Social media technologies seem to be going at an unsustainable pace, not unlike the dot-com companies of yesteryear … continue reading

SD Times Blog: Reading into Facebook’s embedded posts

What can developers and marketers get out of this latest move from Facebook (and others)? … continue reading

Industry Watch: Money goes to Big Data, social, mobile in 2012

Money flowed unabated into mobile and social services and products despite a shaky global economy … continue reading

For Facebook, Android scaling was a diverse challenge

Mike Shaver discussed at AnDevCon how Facebook handles challenges of scale within their company … continue reading

Facebook approached mobile like an enterprise

Don’t be so quick to dismiss Mark Zuckerberg’s HTML5 comments; many companies agree with his viewpoint … continue reading

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