How did Facebook become worth so much money that it could file for the biggest IPO in tech history? By building a highly defensible product, platform, and advertising business on top of brilliant talent and valuable data. It now has several competitive a

Displacing Facebook as the mainstream online social network would be next to impossible. It brought authenticated identity to the internet –a crucial utility that compelled users to join. No other service may be able to add on top of Facebook something a

Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has raised $2.8 million in funding led by Yuri Milner, with Google’s Matt Cutts and other investors participating. The

If you're a visitor to the FriendFeed Crime and Mystery Room (and if not do come along) then you'll have heard about this a few days ago. I downloaded the podcast after Maxine at Petrona had mentioned it but only got round to listening to it last night.

Summary: Facebook’s “don’t be evil” bookmarklet, which tweaks Google’s Search plus Your World (SPYW) feature to include more social networks, has been ported to a Mozilla Firefox add-on. Yesterday, Blake Ross, Facebook’s product director and co-founder o

The fallout over Google’s personalized “Search, plus Your World” feature continues as engineers from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace have created a browser add-on that not only negates the effects of Google+-centric search, but borrows Google’s “Don’t Be E