SF News Facebook Pays Hackers to Break into Facebook Two weeks after hacker group Anonymous threatened to "kill" Facebook for releasing private information of some of their 750 million users to the federal government, the social media monolith has taken to paying
SF News Facebook to Censor Inmates' Pages In an effort to become the most boring place on the world wide web -- or maybe it's just us? Since our friends post the most meh stuff now, we've resorted to following
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after
SF News Someone Please Get the Winklevoss Twins a PR Agent Perhaps because of their ongoing litigious efforts in a Massachusetts federal court, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss simply could not stay silent about some recent public remarks by former Harvard president Larry Summers in
SF News Google Plus Slowly Takes Off Tired of blocking followers who post relentless political campaign-related gibberish or blatant Gilt-esque advertising? We don't know about you, but we sure are. (Side note: if you're a campaign director who's hired a
SF News Facebook Video Chat Feature Unveiled Powered by Skype, Facebook announced a new video chat feature today. Which will be of interest to those of you who chat on Facebook, or to those of you who don't already use
SF News Copper Wire Pilfered from Future Facebook HQ At the future site of Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, police are investigating some 1,000 pounds of missing copper wire. Like the mineral-hungry prospectors that made the Bay Area a playground
SF News Actually, the Winklevoss Twins Aren't Through With Zuckerberg Just Yet Just yesterday, we reported that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cut their losses and decided to accept the settlement they reached with Facebook in 2008 now worth about $120 million. The two made a
SF News Winklevoss Twins Drop Their Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook Those greedy, seemingly quite stubborn Winklevoss twins (portrayed by the handsome and strapping Armie Hammer in The Social Network), have finally decided to throw in the towel and stop trying to undo the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enlightened Mark Zuckerberg Eating Only What He Kills Bemoan the exalted Facebook leader all you want, plebeians, but we dig Mark Zuckerberg's newfound gastronomic sensibility. In a recent Forbes article, Zuckerberg explains how he now only eats what he kills, meat-wise.
SF News Facebook Stalking: Mark Zuckerberg's New Palo Alto Pad After becoming the target of the tech paparazzi and moving out of his last residence, the Facebook frontman has finally upgraded himself to a living situation befitting of a real grownup who is
SF News Facebook Recognizes Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships Yesterday, Facebook added more options to their relationship status updates. Namely, the ability to add either "in a domestic partnership" or the more separate-but-equal "in a civil union" to your personal profile. "This
SF News Rumor Mill: Facebook, Google Eyeing Twitter Buy? Rumors are swirling - swirling! - about Google and Facebook conducting clandestine meetings about about buying Twitter. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., among other
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Taiwanese Animation Takes On Zuckerberg Stalker Story Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg had to get a restraining order against 31-year-oldPradeep Manukonda, his presumably sanity-estranged stalker, who has been sending him letters and showing up at his door. Next Media Animation has
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Files Restraining Order Against Facebook Stalker Pradeep Manukonda, 31, of Milpitas has been ordered to stay 300 feet away from Mark Zuckerberg and stop contacting him. It seems the Facebook founder, as well as his girlfriend and family, have
SF News A Quarter Of You Are Facebooking While In The John A new study by Atlanta-based AIS Media says that a full 27% use Facebook while on the toilet (or, less advisably, while standing at urinals), a figure which only tells us that at
SF News Facebook Displays Amber Alerts In a smart move from the social media giant, Facebook will now display relevant alerts from the 15-year-old child-abduction alert system to users who opt in to the program. Just remember you won't
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Facebook Page Did we say Ed Lee had no Facebook page? Scratch that. San Francisco's nascent mayor does, in fact, have a Facebook page. A fan page, actually, with not much on it. Yet. Let's
SF News Deleted Comments from Sarah Palin's Facebook Wall Re: Giffords Shooting We must give credit where credit is due, and the kids over at The Awl put together a terrific and upsetting collection of screengrabs of comments that were deleted off of Sarah Palin's
SF News Adios, MySpace? Myspace, if you remember, once stood as the social media platform for GIFs, autostart, sparkly animation, bands, and misunderstood types with eyeliner. Now, according to Valleywag, it's halfway in the grave. Just two
SF News Facebook Gets Big Investment From Goldman Sachs, Russians Zuckerberg has yet another reason to celebrate today as Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm fork over $500 million in a deal that puts Facebook's current valuation at something like $50 billion
SF News Facebook Ranked Best Place To Work Facebook, according to "professional community site Glassdoor.com," ranks as the top place to work among the 50 best places to work this year. According to The Chronicle, "To qualify for a ranking,
SF News Shares of Facebook & Twitter On Sale Hey, rich people with nary a care in the world! Listen up: Although they have yet to go public, Facebook and Twitter (as well as San Francisco-based Zynga) have shares to sell. According
SF News Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Mission Mission editor Allan Hough: "Okay, I can't do this. Going for a bike ride. Somebody call me when Tumblr is back on its feet."(If you haven't heard, the microblogging service
misc George W. Bush, Taking Questions Live from Facebook HQ Today Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced they will be hosting the most recent George Bush in their Palo Alto headquarters for a livestreamed Q&A session at 2 p.m. PST this afternoon. The
