In the middle of the night, Los Angeles Lakers megastar Kobe Bryant took to Facebook to express his frustration about tearing his left Achilles tendon that ends his season. Here it is: “This is such BS! All the training and sacrifice just flew out the window with one step that I’ve done millions of times! [...]
Facebook Introduces New ‘Home’ for Android Smartphones
April 5, 2013 | Posted by
Facebook made its most significant foray into smartphones Thursday, a bid that enables it to gain a far better understanding of what consumers are doing in the increasingly prevalent world of mobile technology. TThe company introduced a new suite of software programs, called Home, that put a user’s Facebook page on the home screen of [...]
Sheryl Sandberg’s Book Addresses Lack of Female Executives
March 18, 2013 | Posted by
With her new book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg clearly hoped to spark discussion about female ambition and opportunity in the workplace. She might not have expected her observations and prescriptions to bring her the kind of criticism she’s received for holding women to standards, both personal [...]
What You ‘Like’ on Facebook Could Tell About You
March 13, 2013 | Posted by
Patterns of “Likes” posted by people on Facebook can unintentionally expose their political and religious views, drug use, divorce and sexual orientation, researchers said Monday. A study of 58,000 U.S. Facebook users, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arises from an emerging discipline in which experts sift through extremely large digital data [...]
Legendary Entrepreneur Peter Thiel Talks Facebook at SXSW
March 13, 2013 | Posted by
Peter Thiel, fhe PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor and Founders Fund managing partner said there was a famous deal that did not happen and that luck has as much to do with success as anything. At SXSW this afternoon, the entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and contrarian thinker, told the story of the day Mark Zuckerberg decided [...]
Ray Rice On Anti-Bullying Campaign in Wake of Kid’s Death
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
Baltimore Ravens’ running back Ray Rice has been somewhat of a bully on the football field, running over opponents at every chance. But he has a problem with bullying among kids at school, and wants to stem this growing trend. The 26-year-old Rice has spoken at several local Maryland schools about bullying, having been touched [...]
Can Twitter Become a $10 Billion Company?
February 27, 2013 | Posted by
I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn’t worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened. Stubbornly, they arranged themselves to lead to a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type: Twitter has the potential to match some of the money-gushing properties of the Internet’s greatest money [...]
Signing Day Was Big For Unheralded Prep Footballers, Too
February 12, 2013 | Posted by
All the attention and adulation for last week’s National Signing Day went to the country’s top players, like Robert Nkemdiche of Georgia, who chose Mississippi. But for Kris Smith of Flowery Branch High School near Atlanta, who has signed with Indiana University, the occasion was just as important and exciting, despite there being no ESPN [...]
For the Record, Facebook is Officially a Mobile Company
January 31, 2013 | Posted by
At the end of last year, Facebook officially became a mobile company, not a desktop one. For the first time in its history, the number of active daily users accessing the service on a mobile device exceeded the number that were checking the social network from their desktop computers. That’s a momentous shift — the company’s [...]
