As many of you may recall, at the end of the ’90s classic Forrest Gump, the film’s eponymous main character invests some of his hard-earned money in a “fruit company” by the name of Apple Computer Inc. A British site has done the math on what his investment might be worth today, and the results are staggering. If [...]

An article in the New York Times says that Facebook has another smartphone in the works, according to Facebook employees as well as engineers who say they were approached by recruiters. The article contains facts which seem to support a Facebook phone, such as Facebook’s acquisition of former iPhone and iPad engineers, the rumored partnership [...]

I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg sees the irony of strangers following minute details of his personal life, or if his transition to celebrity is what fueled his view, expressed in 2010, that privacy is no longer a social norm. Of course the world hasn’t just discovered Mark Zuckerberg: there have been interviews, news articles, and [...]

Yesterday a Facebook press release announced that it would issue 421 Million shares at $38 a share, which would put the market capitalization for Facebook at $104 Billion dollars. The first trade was scheduled to begin at 11 AM eastern time, but was delayed half an hour by a technical issue. Facebook’s an interesting company, [...]