Company: Facebook

The West Coast's Silicon Valley may be known as the birth-place of the American high-tech economy, but the East Coast is quickly becoming a hub for more and more would-be tech titans.    Read More

A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's $5-billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies.    Read More

If you have a company, or an idea for a company, that can make an impact on people using social media, Reid Hoffman wants to talk to you. Hoffman, a partner at Greylock Partners and the executive chairman of LinkedIn, told CNBC Friday he sees a lot of opportunity for "great businesses" that create social networks that "can change people's lives."    Read More

Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user prompts before accessing users' address book data.    Read More

Facebook is about to cash in on a public offering that looks likely to net Mark Zuckerberg $28 billion, make hundreds of its employees millionaires, and deliver handsome profits to its investors.    Read More

Zynga launches a new game today on the heels of its first quarterly earnings report as a public company.    Read More

As a result of the financial crisis, Wall Street has taken a beating on reputation, on pay and on layoffs. At the same time, with a series of hot initial public offerings culminating in Facebook’s planned issue, Silicon Valley has developed a new allure.    Read More

Angry Birds has joined Facebook.    Read More

In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while exercising. During an idle moment at the office you might use Google on your Microsoft Windows PC to search for the latest celebrity implosion.    Read More

If you think that private equity fund managers are under-taxed because carried interest is considered a capital gain rather than income, you should probably also advocate higher taxes for the founders of companies.   Read More