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SAN FRANCISCO -- Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, a rising star in the Democratic Party, came to San Francisco to introduce #waywire, a video news product he co-founded, and to appeal for the use of technology to "disrupt our democracy and hack our politics to better reflect the purpose of our people."

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt here, Booker described #waywire as an app for creating, collecting and sharing news video. #waywire is now available in "alpha" and has an iPhone app, and is integrated with social networks such as Facebook and … Read more

In an SEC filing late today, Facebook said that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg "has no intention to conduct any sale transactions... for at least 12 months."

This comes as Facebook's stock today fell once again, closing down 1.8 percent to a record low of $17.73. That's more than 54 percent off its mid-May IPO price of $38.

Just after the IPO, Zuckerberg sold about $1.1 billion worth of stock, a move the company said was to cover his tax bills. Zuckerberg still holds 504 million Class B shares (those are the ones … Read more

Florence Detlor may have been born when William Howard Taft was president, but at the moment she is social media's it girl.

Facebook has confirmed that out of nearly 1 billion users, she is the oldest registered user of the social-networking site at 101 years old.

Detlor brushes off the recent media attention. "It's a matter of circumstance, it just happens to be that way," she said.

The centenarian signed up for Facebook two years ago, after taking a computer class at a community center near her home in Menlo Park, Calif. She has friended around 700 people, but has uploaded only about two dozen photos to her profile.… Read more

All is not well at Facebook. Some have even started calling for CEO Mark Zuckerberg's head. But the panic is premature, and the social network has plenty of time and opportunity to turn things around.

Facebook's stock price has traveled south since its flashy (and disastrous) debut in May. Facebook closed at $19.44 per share on Wednesday, barely half of its $38 IPO price.

Why is Facebook's share price dropping like a boulder off a cliff? M&A specialist Marty Wolf provides an excellent explanation, but I'll summarize the key points:

- Leaked from today's 404 episode:

- Instagram just lost $300 million, here's why.

- Angry Birds and Green Day partner for new Facebook game.

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Bathroom break video: Game of Thrones theme song, as performed by a cat.… Read more

A federal judge has ordered Paul Ceglia, the man who claims he's entitled to half ownership of Facebook, to produce a letter that appears to support the social network's claim that his alleged contract is a fabrication.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio today ordered the release of the letter, in which one of Ceglia's former law firms advises two other former Ceglia law firms that it had determined that the purported contract with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was a fraud. Foschio also reprimanded Ceglia and his current lawyer, Dean Boland, for failing to produce the … Read more

If there's one thing Vladimir Putin has shown the world, it's that a topless photo can add truth to power.

It can make a man seem more of a man, more 5'4" than 5'3".

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg also feels the need to appear a little taller, stronger, and manlier.

For a photograph has emerged of Facebook's CEO topless.

My deeply religious reading of TMZ suddenly revealed yesterday the sight of Zuckerberg with his right hand on his bare chest, as if to say: "Sexy? Moi?"

It is impossible to know why … Read more

Did anyone at Google know? If they did, when did they know it? Before or after?

And when they knew, what did they say? What did they do? And what will they do now?

You see how many questions are engendered by one simple fact: there is a Zuckerberg now working at Google.

You see how much disequilibrium might be created when you buy a company and along with it comes a potential infil-traitor?

Should you have been placed under gadgetless house arrest by Twitter and NBC, you might not have noticed that Google bought a company called Wildfire Interactive. … Read more

I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg won't lose any sleep about Wall Street's ongoing hissy fit about Facebook -- nor should he. More about that in a moment.

Following the disappointment over the company's second-quarter earnings, Facebook shares fell another 11.7 percent Friday, despite the market-lifting euphoria over the European Central Bank chief's plans to bolster the Euro.

An extreme sell-off, for sure, but not surprising for a stock that's tumbled almost 38 percent since its star-crossed debut on the NASDAQ in May.

Given how this outsize company has infiltrated popular culture, Facebook's fall … Read more