SF News The Chronicle Thinks Facebook Stock Could Be A Tough Sell There's a curmudgeony piece in the Business section of the Chron today titled "Facebook must convince investors of its value" and goes on to quote one analyst who tries to compare Facebook's upcoming,
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
SF News Facebook To Debut Around $30 Per Share, $80 Billion Valuation As Zuckerberg and Company gear up for their big debutante ball, when they'll spend the next two weeks meeting with investors and shopping their stock around, the company has released an estimated price
SF News Ladies-Only Street Brawl Erupts Over Facebook Posts A group of more than 30 women broke into a massive street fight in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights neighborhood on Sunday, reportedly because someone involved had pre-planned and posted details about the fight
SF News Facebook Backlash Heats Up It's now been over two months since the announcement of the Facebook IPO, after which some kind of press backlash was inevitable. But now that they just bought Instagram last week, things have
SF News Instagram Wanted TWO Billion From Facebook Deal Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the largest ever for the company, wasn't quite what the twentysomething cofounders of the photo-sharing site wanted. No, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger wanted more — $2 billion
SF News Facebook Buying Instagram For $1 Billion Writing in (where else) a status update from Palo Alto this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company has agreed to purchase San Francisco-based social photography app Instagram for a reported $1
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I No Longer Post Pictures Of My Kids On Facebook By D. Hanousek For a long time, I was one of those parents who posted adorable pictures and videos of my precious offspring on Facebook. On almost a daily basis, in fact. Since
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giant QR Code Painted On Facebook Headquarters' Rooftop Facebook honeybees recently painted a 42 foot wide QR code on the roof of the company's new headquarters in Menlo Park. Ta-da. Laughing Squid points out, "The QR code arose when CEO Mark
SF News Israeli President Shimon Peres Visits Bay Area Today President of Israel Shimon Peres will be in the Bay Area starting today to tour several noted technology companies and a temple to boot. Starting today, Peres will visit IBM's research and development
SF News Teens' Photos Stolen From Facebook, Placed On Porn Site Over in Massachusetts, authorities are warning girls that someone is stealing their "fully-clothed" photos from Facebook and placing them on an x-rated site. The incident happened to 17 girls at Bay Path Regional
SF News Those Drunk Photos You Deleted From The Internet? Facebook Still Has Them Facebook just doesn't know how to get over you, it seems. Three years after tech sites called out the social network for keeping copies of deleted photos on their servers, Facebook is still
Arts & Entertainment Callers On NPR Whine About How Facebook Has Ruined Their Lives Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
SF News It Happened: Facebook Files for IPO As expected, Facebook filed for its initial public offering today and the numbers are big: The securities filing places the social network's value somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Facebook Update That Garnered A Record 1 Million Comments A Facebook post by Tracey Hodgson and Cathy Matthews won the Guinness Book of World Record for having received a whopping 1 million comments. It does not, however, make much sense. The update
SF News Facebook IPO Could Come Next Week; Investors To See Ridiculous Windfall Over the next few days, Facebook could file an IPO. Raising as much as $10 billion at a valuation anywhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, it stands to be "one of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Like You Better on Facbeook' Maybe you've seen this already, but we hadn't, and it's dern catchy! The song is by Livia Scott and you can find it on iTunes here.
SF News Mission Rape Suspect's Facebook Posts Uptown Almanac brings to light several Facebook posts penned by alleged Mission rape suspect, Fred Dozier, 32. The most chilling part about Dozier's Facebook posts aren't his "Crime City" requests or his "2
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Mounts a Bison in Facebook HQ As part of his personal challenge to eat only the animals he kills, noted nouveau riche person Mark Zuckerberg has been eating a lot of bison burgers, apparently. Thanks to that newly enlightened
SF News Facebook, Your Cell Phone Would Like You Not To Kill Yourself A new mobile phone app and a new service/button on Facebook are trying to help the suicide prevention cause. The smartphone app, specifically geared toward soldiers and military vets, is called Guard
SF News Facebook's Swelling HQ Could Clog Highway 101 Traffic Here's another way Facebook will keep you from getting work done on a daily basis: according to a report released yesterday, Facebook's growing campus at 1 Hacker Way could pose a major traffic
SF News Facebook Has New Vanity Street Name: 1 Hacker Way In Silicon Valley, vanity street names by tech mammoths are as common as racial disparity, wasteland boredom, and Chevys. Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and Sun Microsystem used
Arts & Entertainment Jonathan Nolan Is Awesomely Paranoid About Facebook Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic
SF News Video: Andy Samberg Spoofs Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook Conference Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, newly crowned one of the top 20 richest people in America, was joined on stage today by Berkeley native and Saturday Night Live player Andy Samberg during Thursday's f/
