On a whim, a Miami man created a Facebook page called Don't Call Me African American, fueling a debate about how blacks define themselves in an increasingly diverse America. By AUDRA DS BURCH In the quiet of his Miami home late one night, Gibré George ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/21/2653580/facebook-page-challenges-how-blacks.html

By Emil Protalinski | February 20, 2012, 4:39pm PST Summary: Google isn't the only one bypassing Microsoft Internet Explorer's privacy settings: Facebook does it too, as do tens of thousands of other companies. So, who is to blame?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/not-just-google-facebook-also-bypasses-privacy-settings-in-ie/9302

By the numbers: does Facebook ruin economies? Although Facebook accounts for one in every six page views in Australia and decimates its social-media rivals in terms of total visits, Australians appear to be getting bored of it, spending less time on ...

http://www.zdnet.com.au/aussies-tire-of-facebook-despite-popularity-339331576.htm

When Jet Martinez set up a scaffold inside Building 17 in Facebook's new Menlo Park offices to work on a colorful flower mural called “Bouquet” late last month, he did not know that he was going to be spending two weeks inside that tech giant's offices ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/technology/jet-martinez-is-facebooks-first-artist-in-residence.html

Such an outcome also could threaten the likes of Google and Facebook if they push the limits on privacy too far. Just last month, the search giant said it plans to combine nearly all the information it has on its users across its properties like Google ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229613295011198.html

The FBI and Massachusetts police are trying to figure out who “hijacked” Facebook photos of teenage girls from more than a dozen high schools in the state and posted them on a website police say features child pornography.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/porn-site-that-featured-hijacked-facebook-photos-of-mass-high-school-girls-partly-shut-down/2012/02/16/gIQAwdZ0HR_story.html

Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of their birth name. Those with verified accounts will gain ...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/15/facebook-verified-accounts-alternate-names/

Enlarge image LinkedIn Puts Slip to Record Low Before Facebook IPO LinkedIn Puts Slip to Record Low Before Facebook IPO David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The LinkedIn Corp. website is displayed on a computer monitor in San Francisco, California, ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/linkedin-puts-slip-to-record-low-as-facebook-ipo-lures-back-bulls-options.html

There's something to be said for being a fossil when it's time to look at a phenomenon like Facebook's pending stock offering. The medium is new, the numbers are high, the buzz is huge, but it's the same old story I've seen a million times in four ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ipo-a-study-in-arrogance/2012/02/13/gIQAfy57BR_story.html

By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Whether Facebook is the next great stock or a horrible bust — and it seems like most opinions fall into one of those two extremes — the question many investors will have after the company's initial ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-ipos-impact-on-your-fund-manager-2012-02-13?reflink=MW_GoogleNews

To the Editor: By her own example, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook demonstrates all that women can achieve when they have the talent, drive and opportunity to succeed, and she is paving the way for other women to follow her path to the top (“The $1.6 ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/business/letters-a-facebook-executive-and-the-barriers-ahead.html

If you're a teenager, you better be careful what you post on Facebook. That's especially true if you have a father who works in IT. But there's that one quirk about teenagers – no matter what common sense says, they think they know better.

http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-post-causes-man-to-shoot-daughters-computer-video-10213134/

Reuters Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories Top 6 Facebook annoyances and how to fix them Joe Green walked away from $10b Facebook fortune How to get the most out of Facebook's new Timeline Apps Got billions?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/09/facebook-details-bonuses-for-zuckerberg-executives/

By Peter Delevett and Jeremy C. Owens A week after filing paperwork to go public, Facebook on Wednesday released a trove of additional documents that flesh out the initial filing. Among the new details provided to the Securities and Exchange ...

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19921728

By Stacy Cowley @CNNMoneyTech February 7, 2012: 5:59 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's upcoming IPO will make founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire -- but it will also stick him with an eye-popping tax bill that could reach as high as $2 ...

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/07/technology/zuckerberg_tax_bill/

By Paritosh Bansal and Soyoung Kim | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest US ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/07/us-facebook-calstrs-idUSTRE81601Q20120207

Last week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn't have an inventory of widgets or ...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/How-Facebook-uses-your-data/articleshow/11775188.cms

The same things I said about Google, I could say about Facebook, which was founded the same year Google went public. It makes most of its money from advertising, its growth is slowing, its competition is fierce, its earnings weren't quite what analysts ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577199481841403756.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking his company public in a $5 billion initial public offering, all possible thanks to your generous sharing of private data. Facebook's $5 billion IPO filing ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/facebook-5-billion-ipo-banked-private-data-article-1.1016946

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Facebook's IPO filing lays out a pretty good image of where CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to take the company: He sees the social network as having significant historical value to the economy, governments and -- he hopes ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223940/Facebook_IPO_details_strategy_and_its_vision_of_itself

By PETER EAVIS and EVELYN M. RUSLI With a huge initial public offering on the runway, Facebook has shown that it pays to have friends. New investors will now have to decide what they are willing to pay to be friends. The giant social network said in a ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/investors-get-the-chance-to-assess-facebooks-potential/

Facebook, the vast online social network, is poised to file for a public stock offering on Wednesday that will ultimately value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, cashing in on the fuel that powers the engine of Internet commerce: personal ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/technology/riding-personal-data-facebook-is-going-public.html

By Lauren Tara LaCapra (Reuters) - Facebook's initial public offering is likely to set a new standard for how low investment banks are willing to go on advisory fees to win big business. The world's largest online social network is expected to tap ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-facebook-ipoview-idUSTRE80Q21920120131

Facebook plans to set the wheels in motion next week for its hotly anticipated debut on Wall Street, laying the groundwork for what is expected to be the biggest initial public offering ever by a technology company. The US social networking company, ...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/226539ea-493c-11e1-88f0-00144feabdc0.html

By Amanda Mikelberg / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A Facebook photo posted by Sergeant Pat Shearer of the Peoria, Ariz. police department shows a group of youths in the desert with a bullet-riddled Obama T-shirt. Sergeant Pat Shearer is a 25-year veteran of the ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/facebook-photo-showing-obama-t-shirt-bullet-holes-eyed-secret-service-assasination-threat-article-1.1013585?localLinksEnabled=false