All Blog Posts Tagged 'FACEBOOK' (49)

Early Saturday morning – early, EARLY Saturday morning – Kobe Bryant took to his Facebook page to vent frustration in the wake of the likely Achilles tear that he suffered in a game against the Golden State Warriors on Friday night. Kobe, who appeared calm and resigned to his fate while talking to the press immediately after the Laker win, admitted to be a bit woozy due to…

He can’t “like” this.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is on the hook for a $1.1 billion tax bill for 2012, the result of his company’s going public last year.

That decision gave Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO, a $13 billion fortune, including about $2.3 billion in stock options alone that he reported as income last year, CNN Money reported. Coupled with a 48.3%…

A lower East Side man was viciously slashed in the face by a stranger in a Rikers Island visitor area — and then was victimized again when a correction officer put a photo of the gory gash on Facebook, a new lawsuit charges.

Chad Seegars, 20, was allegedly grabbed from behind near the metal detectors at the George R. Vierno Center, where the slasher left an eight-inch…

Following 50 cent, another Hip-Hop mogul from New York, Jay-Z has launched his own Facebook game called Empire. The game had been in talks since past month but the Beta version was released to the audience just a while ago. You can signup to…

Facebook likes Instagram.

The social network announced Monday it acquired the photo-sharing site in a post from founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the Wall Street Journal reported the deal was done for $1 billion.

"For years, we've been focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family," Zuckerberg wrote in his Facebook post.…

Yahoo has seen some fairly big shakeups within the company recently, and it looks like it's now also trying another change in tactics. As AllThingsD reports, Yahoo has filed what's being described as a "massive" patent infringement lawsuit against none other than Facebook. That suit concerns ten patents in all, which cover everything from advertising and privacy measures to…

A North Carolina dad's video lecturing his daughter for being spoiled — and then shooting her laptop full of bullets — has received millions of hits on YouTube.

His anger, according to the video, came after his 15-year-old posted on Facebook complaining about the chores she had to do every day.

“Hannah, you were grounded for about three…

Talk about bad timing.

Facebook seemed to be having operational issues on Thursday, less than 20 hours after filing paperwork to allow the company to go public this spring, in an IPO that is expected to fetch somewhere between $75 and $100 billion.

On Twitter, another popular social media platform, people immediately began commenting on the unfortunate…

Crossing into rival turf was known as “going to the beach” and when a gang member was gunned down, enemies said the shooter “clapped him off the surfboard.”

The unique language posted on social media sites by members of warring Brooklyn street gangs not only gave cops a glimpse into their coded communications — it also led to 43 arrests.

“The officers who made…

An Indiana man confessed to killing his teenage ex-girlfriend and her male pal in a chilling Facebook message before turning the gun on himself, police said Sunday.

Cops believe Bart Heller, believed to be about 40, shot Erin Jehl, 19, and Ryann Tipton, 19, when they stopped by his house to pick up Jehl's belongings, ABCNews.com reported.

Then he took to…