Facebook Targets Huge IPO (VIDEO & 3 PHOTOS)

WSJ's Shira Ovide has details of Facebook's expected IPO, which could have a $100 billion valuation

Offering Next Year Could Raise $10 Billion, Valuing Company at $100 Billion

Facebook Inc. is inching closer to an initial public offering that it hopes will value the company at more than $100 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The Facebook Phone: It’s Finally Real and Its Name Is Buffy (PHOTO)

This is the first in a series of posts this week about the Facebook phone.

After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being.

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Scientists have found More Facebook friends linked to bigger brain areas

The four brain areas involved are known to play a role in memory, emotional responses and social interactions.

So far, however, it is not possible to say whether having more Facebook connections makes particular parts of the brain larger or whether some people are simply pre-disposed, or "hard-wired," to have more friends.

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Can Twitter Beat Facebook and Google+ ?

iOS 5 Twitter integration already a huge benefit for company 

As you might imagine, there's been a lot of talk about social networks at the Web 2.0 Summit, and particularly the escalating three-way battle among Facebook, Google and Twitter. While Google and Facebook have had their fair share of announcements recently, Twitter just added some major firepower to its arsenal, courtesy of Apple. 

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