At least 22 retailers have been driven into bankruptcy protection during this recession, including RedEnvelope and Eddie Bauer, or gone out of business altogether, like Circuit City. Blockbuster, ...

Late last night, while Betabeat was pretty much killing a heartfelt rendition of Smells Like Teen Spirit at this janky Chinatown karaoke joint, we got an email from a norm friend. “I know I’m late to ...

If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure your Facebook account, you likely, at some point, gave Facebook your phone number. 2FA adds an almost impenetrable layer of security to your ...

Fresh off a blockbuster quarter for the social networking giant, a deeper dive into Facebook’s numbers for the first quarter of 2016 shows that its users are increasingly turning to their phones to ...

The story first appeared in the TechCrunch blog over the weekend. The story is that Facebook is building a mobile phone, or rather, they're building the software for a mobile phone but working with a ...

Just as Facebook has been trying to overcome a user data scandal involving the U.K. political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, the world’s largest social media company is again under fire for ...

A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers – even if you only provided it to help secure your account. Last February, software engineer Gabriel Lewis tweeted that adding ...

Facebook is facing criticism for not allowing users to opt out of a feature that lets people look them up using their phone number or email address. This includes users who only added their phone ...

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, ...