Tag: Facebook

Washington Secrets

Backlash: Facebook’s gun decision hit by anti-gun group as NRA wins

Paul Bedard · March 6, 2014 12:00 am

Facebook’s college dropout co-founder leads effort that could help dispel anti-Latino myths

Shikha Dalmia · March 6, 2014 12:00 am

Economic freedom fuels drive from food stamps to Facebook

Melanie Sturm · March 4, 2014 12:00 am

Facebook and WhatsApp logos are displayed on portable electronic devices. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

BlackBerry’s WhatsApp valuation seen derailed by BBM

Bloomberg News · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Mark Zuckerberg Chairman and CEO of Facebook speaks during a conference at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Expected highlights include major product launches from Samsung and other phone makers, along with a keynote address by Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Zuckerberg takes long view with WhatsApp, Internet

Barbara Ortutay · February 24, 2014 9:08 pm

U.S. military is playing catch-up in digital media war

James Jay Carafano · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo shows the WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on an iPhone in New York. On Wednesday, the world's biggest social networking company announced it is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for up to $19 billion in cash and stock. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

My love affair with WhatsApp. Does it have to end?

Tali Arbel · February 20, 2014 8:24 pm

This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo shows the WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on an iPhone in New York. On Wednesday, the world's biggest social networking company announced it is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for up to $19 billion in cash and stock. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

WhatsApp: A $19 billion bet for Facebook

BARBARA ORTUTAYMICHAEL LIEDTKE · February 20, 2014 5:30 am

In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison demonstrates expanded options for gender identification at her company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Harrison, who helped engineer the project, plans to switch her identifier to "Trans Woman." (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

New gender options for Facebook users

Martha Mendoza · February 14, 2014 6:47 am

Facebook users, others react to gender options

Lisa Leff · February 14, 2014 2:11 am

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg biggest giver in 2013

DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP · February 10, 2014 11:06 am

When Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants united in outrage last summer over the National Security Agency's unfettered spying, telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint âwhose customers are also the targets of secret government spyingâ remained noticeably mum. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security

Internet firms release data on NSA requests

Michael Liedtke · February 4, 2014 12:00 am