When Facebook filed for its IPO last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, 85 percent of it stemming from advertising. Currently, Facebook solely hosts ads on the standard version of its social media platform. However, the company recently inked a deal with Bango that will bring ads and mobile payments to Facebook mobile versions beginning ...

Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco -- and it's good news for app developers.

Some investment professionals are claiming that Facebook is worth only $75 billion or even $50 billion. But the Deal Professor says that it does not mean that Facebook stock will not trade at a price giving the company that vaunted $100 billion valuation.

Trying to raise bunches of money from investors for its upcoming initial public offering, Facebook's trying to prove it can make money off of all that social networking we do. There's no question lots of people use Facebook. But how exactly Facebook is monetizing those "engaged" users, many of which never visit Facebook.com, is still questionable. Now's the time for Facebook to show what kind of ...

Facebook’s ability to far outshine other display ad players like Yahoo in user engagement as well as its dominating presence in the social gaming market should continue to propel the company’s growth for years to come.

Facebook became the leader of social media by offering users a clean design and the right mix of customization options.

A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in western Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers' middle-aged "friend" — yet another fake persona he used, the state attorney general said Friday.

A Facebook post went viral Wednesday after the father of a 15-year-old girl decided her online activity was disrespectful, but it’s bringing her a kind of fame she probably never imagined. Her punishment? Eight exploding, hollow-point rounds from a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, straight into her laptop.

Facebook users have a love-hate relationship with Facebook Timeline, which encourages users to share their life story in photos and milestones. So where does French President Nicolas Sarkozy fall on the amour-haine spectrum? J'adore, it seems, as Sarkozy has enabled Timeline on his profile.

A lot has been written about "Facebook addiction." Indeed some press coverage of a recent study from the University of Chicago suggests that "Facebook and Twitter are more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol."  But a new study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking puts a positive spin on the issue. Could it be that, just like eating chocolate, Facebook and ...