On Thursday, Facebook unveiled their new high tech and futuristic-looking data center in Prineville, Oregon. Even more impressively, the project is open source, meaning Facebook will actually share what the company has learned about designing energy-reducing, cost-efficient computer servers and data centers. Facebook claims their green data center uses 38 percent less energy to do [...]

Facebook is reportedly in talks to hire President Obama’s former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for a senior communications role, the New York Times reported. No formal offer has been made yet to Gibbs, but after two years at the White House, the president’s ex-spokesman has high-level ties that could be attractive to Facebook [...]

Websites like Groupon and Living Social have exploded onto the scene in recent years. They help businesses raise their profiles through discount offers. Now, Facebook will soon start testing its own service in several U.S. cities: Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, San Francisco and San Diego. The company already offers Facebook Deals through Facebook Places, its check-in [...]

Six of the founders and investors behind Facebook have landed in the annual list of world’s top billionaires compiled by Forbes. Four of the names are new to the roster. Facebook co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg clocked in at No. 52 with an estimated worth of $13.5 billion, up from 212 and $4 billion [...]

An Egyptian man named Jamal Ibrahim was feeling so thankful that Facebook created a medium for organizing the Egyptian demonstrations that ultimately played a part in President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation from the post he held for 30 years, he named his newborn daughter Facebook Jamal Ibrahim. The news was published in Egypt’s Al-Ahram, a government-owned [...]