Facebook reaches 2 billion users

Facebook reached the user milestone just a few days after co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg ...

Facebook's social network now has 2 billion monthly active users - about a quarter of the world's population.

Theories aiming to explain tech giants' sudden dip run the gauntlet from the reasonable to the absurd to the relatively ...

7 theories on why mega-cap tech stocks took a bath

Luke Kawa

Strategists blame computerised selling, central banks, tweets - and more.

Facebook should make its metadata available to authorities to see who is manipulating election campaigns.

Why won't Facebook say if Russia interfered in US election?

Opinion
Philip N. Howard and Robert Gorwa

One of the most important intelligence documents about Russian interference in the US election has emerged. But it didn't come from the NSA. It was published by Facebook.

Many of Facebook's content moderators have concerns about the inconsistency and peculiar nature of some of the policies.

Facebook leak reveals why it doesn't censor self-harm

Sangameswaran S

Facebook's leaked policy says it allows people to live-stream attempts to self-harm because it "doesn't want to censor".

"Today's announcement brings this matter to a close," Facebook said.

EU fines Facebook $165m on WhatsApp deal

Robert-Jan Bartunek

The European Union has fined Facebook $165 million for misleading about its intentions when it bought WhatsApp in 2014.

A wave of advertisers are leaving Google's YouTube.

Facebook refunds advertisers after more errors

Max Mason

Facebook has been forced to refund advertisers after admitting to yet another error in its video measurement.

Advertisers are crying for accountability, says Megan Clarken, Nielsen President, Product Leadership and International Media.

Advertisers need a uniform measure: Nielsen

Max Mason

Advertisers need third-party comparable metrics across Google, Facebook and broadcast television.

Net income rose to $US3.06 billion, or $US1.04 a share, compared with the 87-US-cent average estimate compiled by Bloomberg.

Facebook raking in $1 billion a week this year

Sarah Frier

Facebook's main social network is still driving sales growth, even as executives seek to temper investor exuberance.

Facebook now pays $US1800 a month more than the $US6200 the social media giant reportedly paid interns when Glassdoor ...

25 interns paid more than the average worker

Jena McGregor

The 25 best-paying companies for internships in the US each pay their median summer worker more than $5975 a month, but Facebook pays far more.

Google reported $882 million in ad revenue under MAAL – but costs ate up $850 million of that.

How Google, Facebook dodged $1.2b tax bullet

Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason

Google and Facebook's results underline the difficulties the government faces in increasing the local tax take from tech companies.

Residents in Wanneroo have been urged to report crimes to police, not post them on social media.

Facebook's Australian revenue questioned under new tax laws

Max Mason

Experts have cast doubt of Facebook's financial accounts, the first under the government's new tax avoidance laws.

Nick Xenophon wants a crackdown on Google and Facebook tax payments.

Slash TV licence fees and tax Google, Facebook: Xenophon

Max Mason

Nick Xenophon believes broadcast licence fees should be abolished altogether.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - NOVEMBER 09: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2014 Breakthrough Prize Awards at NASA ...

Facebook mimics Pokemon Go for 'virtual notes'

David Ingram

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is keen on augmented reality, such that you could leave a 'virtual note' for a friend at a bar.

Facebook is the world's fifth-most-valuable company by market value.

The great Google, Facebook retreat

John McDuling and Max Mason

Advertisers seem to be waking up to the realisation that Facebook and Google's rise has come with a cost. Intrusive ads litter the internet and are being used to underwrite "fake news".

A study showed that Facebook and Twitter failed to meet the German target of removing 70 per cent of hate speech within ...

Facebook, Twitter face €50m fines on 'fake news'

Melissa Eddy and Mark Scott

Germany will propose a law to fine Facebook and Twitter up to €50 million if they don't curb fake news and hate speech on social media.

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg. The company is now counting Australian advertising revenue locally rather than in ...

Facebook plans to rewire your life. You should be worried.

Opinion
Leonid Bershidsky

Whatever idealistic nonsense Facebook spouts, the corporation has spawned an increasing number of proven anxieties and addictions

The new Facebook video app for TV, which will roll out soon to app stores for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung Smart ...

Facebook app lets you watch its videos on TV

Laharee Chatterjee

Facebook is launching an app for smart TVs that will help the social network's users enjoy its videos on a bigger screen.

Mark Zuckerberg, ruler of social media giant Facebook. The company's reach is everywhere, stoking fears over how it ...

Zuckerberg goes to court over Hawaii land

Mark Zuckerberg has gone to court to gain ownership of land tucked away within his sprawling estate in Hawaii

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting big on the 'Facebook Live' platform.

Mark Zuckerberg's secrets for acquiring companies

Alex Heath

During the weeks leading up to Mark Zuckerberg's decision to buy Oculus for $2 billion, he received a concerning message from then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook is trying to rewire your life and change your relationships.

Facebook now wants to read your mind

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Facebook already has your name, your friends and your photographs: now it might want your thoughts too.

Google's Alphabet drops futuristic project

Alphabet has disbanded the team tasked with developing its internet by drone technology.

Morgan Freeman, who is voicing the virtual assistant.

Meet Zuckerberg's new AI assistant

Abha Bhattarai

Mark Zuckerberg has a new housemate: Jarvis, an AI assistant he created that can control appliances, play music, recognise faces and even entertain his toddler.