On Thursday, Facebook held its second ever public Town Hall (here’s our coverage of the first). It’s a chance for Facebook users to ask CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the product, the… Read more »
Xfund, founded three years ago as the Experiment Fund by four VC firms to fund young startups, now has $100 million in fresh capital from its current limited partners. And co-founder Patrick… Read more »
Four years since its launch, Kik is positioning itself as America’s version of WeChat, the messaging behemoth of China. It believes it has the right product (text messaging, the old-fashioned kind)… Read more »
Facebook Look Back videos posed a pretty thorny infrastructure challenge, largely due to time constraints. The team had three weeks to get the job done. Read more »
WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum will keep his day job (in fact he’s being given 25 million restricted shares to stay put), but he’ll also take a spot of Facebook’s board. Read more »
18-year-old Michael Sayman has a new job, as one of Facebook’s youngest ever full-time engineers. His family has been struggling financially since the recession, and Sayman will be using his new… Read more »
During Facebook’s earnings call yesterday it seemed like things couldn’t get any better for the company, with both revenue and engagement growing rapidly. But this morning, the company one upped itself… Read more »