Palo Alto Business News

Mr. Shah and two other Snapture co-founders graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2007 and moved to Silicon Valley shortly after. They work on their iPhone business in their free time from one of their apartments, but said...

Think of it as something that exists only online and in the hearts and minds of the user — like a faux flower on Facebook, or digital couture for an avatar, or a magical shield in a game of warcraft....

Facebook has been hit with a public outcry over some of the changes it has made to the social networking site over the years. The real risk, according to comments made by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at a Churchill...

Facebook was once the hipper, cooler social networking alternative site to MySpace. It started out as a website for high school students. But now, as Facebook approaches its third year of world-wide service, an independent demographic report show that in...

Social networking may be taking the Internet by storm but that doesn't mean investors are thrilled about it. Turns out that monetizing pages where people are exchanging gossip and personal trivia while playing with inane applications isn't that easy. Marketing...

The success of iPhone has fueled a huge surge in Apple's share price unseating Google to become the most valued company in Silicon Valley. By close of trading last week, Apple's market cap moved up to $158.8bn slightly ahead of...

Independent data has established that Facebook boasts 153 percent year on year growth. Meanwhile, rival MySpace is floundering with essentially flat growth. This past June, Facebook was able to attract 132.1 million unique users. MySpace managed 117.6 million and the...

We have been hearing all about the growth in China and that one day it will surpass the U.S. Well the time has finally come-China is set to overtake the US next year as the world's largest producer of manufactured...