VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday. Facebook had agreed in December to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly ...

Facebook has not changed its stance when it comes to removing scams and hoaxes, even if the images are of sick babies. On the flipside, the company has removed many of the offending images.

Users of Facebook's apps -- for Android, iPad and iPhone -- may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to gain an addition revenue source before it goes public.

In Wednesday’s IPO filing, Facebook acknowledged that it will have to comply with the legal and regulatory burdens of becoming a public entity. Listing the various financial laws it expects to navigate as a public company, its public filing highlighted some of the high, government-imposed regulatory costs companies face when they make that hurdle.

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 billion.

Facebook founder Zuckerberg faces $1 billion-plus tax bill

Facebook's lofty valuation rests on some assumptions that could turn out wrong.

Facebook has largely managed to avoid being seen as greedy, or potentially dangerous, but that gets complicated when you are sitting on billions of dollars in market value.

Facebook's initial public offering of stock is likely to make a lot of developers and designers of the site very wealthy. But for many users, frequent Facebooking may not be so beneficial.

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 U.S. investors, the California State Teachers' Retirement System. The pension fund, which has a portfolio valued at around $145 billion, is planning to send a letter to Facebook, hoping ...