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Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.

Photos of Sheryl Sandberg's $8 million home in Atherton, Calif.

We all know that social media allows one to share their words on the Web in a matter of seconds. Networking giants Facebook and Twitter are known to be frontrunners in that field, but a relatively new Internet craze may be a worthy competitor.

Investors jumped on Facebook's regulatory filings on Wednesday for a glimpse into the company's inner workings ahead of one of the hottest initial public offerings in recent history. But there are also potential downsides.

As Facebook hurtles toward one of the largest initial public offerings in U.S. history, its honeymoon with investors may already be over.

Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.

Facebook filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, for the first time doing a public financial strip tease.

Now that the Facebook filing is available, it's pretty clear that before he turns 28, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be a billionaire. Maybe, if the IPO is as successful as hoped, he'll be worth about $28 billion.

Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion, but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company, leaving investors with little say.

It is hailed as the most important stock market event of the decade. Rumors of Facebook's highly anticipated IPO filing on Wednesday excited stock watchers around the world as the California-based company moves to raise as much as $10 billion - valuing the company at a staggering $100 billion.

Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday

Microsoft, the No.1 software company, is hitting back at Google, No. 1 in search, by insinuating new Google policies may inadequately protect consumer privacy.

Samsung's most-anticipated Galaxy Note, which is a hybrid of smartphone and tablet, is hitting the shelves of AT&T Feb. 19.

Internet search engine giant Google has sent a 13-page letter to eight members of the House of Representatives to defend its privacy policy consolidation, after the Congress members expressed their concerns about the change.

Facebook Inc. will list a preliminary fund-raising goal of $5 billion on Wednesday, which is smaller than some earlier estimates of the offering. The public stock offering will probably value the company at $80 billion to $100 billion. But how did simple status updates and random photos of users help create what will likely be the biggest tech IPO in till date? Let's try to find out here...

Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used.

Within days, Facebook is expected to file for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for the first time doing a public financial strip tease.

By consolidating its privacy policies and altering its core product, Google has separated itself from the reason everyone loved it. Before, it was simply the world's greatest search engine. Now, it's just another search bar. The new privacy policy gives Google the ability to monitor activity across all of its services, and I suspect that Google product will continue to bleed into each other. Prepare for the end of Google as you know it.

Facebook is preparing to launch their historic initial public offering as soon as this week, with public sales of stock expected to begin in April. Facebook's IPO will be the largest ever at $10 billion; six times larger than Google's, whose IPO was $1.64 Billion in 2004.

Here’s one way to get a resume noticed. President Barack Obama offered to circulate an unemployed engineer’s resume when his wife complained to him about the lack of jobs at the president’s Google Plus hangout Monday night.

Nearly five million Android users will be targeted by a new malware attack.

SOPA is gone for now (until someone re-introduces it), but ACTA and OPEN are two other anti-piracy measures written in the spirit of SOPA. ACTA isn't a proposed U.S. law, however. It's an international treaty already signed by several countries including the U.S. OPEN, on the other hand, picks up right where SOPA took off.

Who is Richard O'Dwyer, the man whose extradition case was the subject of the most popular question asked during the lead-up to Obama's Google+ Hangout and addressed directly by the president during his social-media forum Monday night?

Obama bypassed hard questions about the NDAA and drug policy in his Monday evening Google Hangout and YouTube conversation.

Google News now provides quotes by individuals as part of its search function in a new feature that can be seen as either annoying or useful.

Watch Obama's post-State of the Union Hangout via live stream here.

Obama's YouTube and Google Plus Hangout post-State of the Union conversation is available to watch via live stream here.

What's DMARC if not a new super-league of tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and ten others to fight email spam? Though the companies compete on many levels, one thing they can agree on is email phishing scams are not good for people who use their products (except, of course, the spammers themselves - at least the ones who make money). Phishing scams are notorious because the email messages tend to look like legitimate ones from reputable sources.