Facebook

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Adyen Raises Quarter-Of-A-Billion Dollars
Adyen Raises Quarter-Of-A-Billion Dollars
December 16, 2014  |  Apple Pay

Global payments vendor Adyen on Tuesday (Dec. 16) said that it has closed $250 million in new funding, led by global growth equity investor General...

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Tumblr’s New Buy Button
Tumblr’s New Buy Button
December 03, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

Tumblr on Tuesday (Dec. 2) rolled out an apparently easier way to make purchases through the service. In its own blog post, Tumblr offered simple...

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Stripe Valuation Hits $3.5 Billion
Stripe Valuation Hits $3.5 Billion
December 03, 2014  |  Apple Pay

Online payments vendor Stripe on Monday (Dec. 1) is seeing its valuation double in less than a year, to $3.5 billion, after it closed a...

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Facebook Deals Another Blow To Small Business
Facebook Deals Another Blow To Small Business
December 01, 2014  |  News

Facebook deals another blow to small business as it announced yet another change to how it will decide what users see in their News Feeds....

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Wanelo Reinvents Shopping
Wanelo Reinvents Shopping
November 26, 2014  |  Cool

It seems like social networks should go with e-commerce as naturally as peanut butter is combined with jelly to make the world’s most elementally perfect...

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Facebook’s Big Payments Hint
Facebook’s Big Payments Hint
November 14, 2014  |  News

Facebook notifications might soon not be just about new messages, updates and pokes, but also for money sent and received. A few weeks ago, iOS...

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Facebook Won’t Be Getting Into Payments On Its Own
Facebook Won’t Be Getting Into Payments On Its Own
October 29, 2014  |  Mobile

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his company’s three, five and 10-year-plans Tuesday (Oct. 28), and none of those plans involved Facebook launching its own payments...

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You’ll Never Guess Who’s Mining Facebook Data
You’ll Never Guess Who’s Mining Facebook Data
October 14, 2014  |  International

MasterCard has agreed to a 2-year-contract to mine user data from Facebook Asia-Pacific, packaging it and then reselling it to banks. “MasterCard aims to feed the...

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Facebook Payments Code Detected
Facebook Payments Code Detected
October 06, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

The long-anticipated Facebook Messenger payments offering is real and imminent, based on screen captures of Facebook code now circulating. “Messenger’s payment option lets users send...

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