Douglas MacMillan

Yuri Milner, the Russian investor whose early bet on Facebook made him a billionaire, thinks three websites will endure for 100 years. Not surprisingly, the world’s largest social network was one of them. The other two he named are Google...

Earlier this year, Mark Johnson gave a talk on the future of online news to executives at CNN in Atlanta. The wiry, red-haired 34-year-old, who had sold his software startup Zite to the cable news giant, told the group that technology...

Facebook, operator of the world’s largest social-networking site, commemorated its growth to one billion users with a promotional video shot by Academy Award-nominated Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The 90-second clip, filmed in four cities, features groups of people from around...

Location-based social networks such as Foursquare and Highlight are useful for gleaning information about people and places close by. But what if you wanted to tune into the online chatter of those attending a political rally in another state, or...

At Groupon, daily deals are fading. That’s the message the company sent many investors this week when it reported a decline in gross billings, or the total value of goods and services bought on its site, between the first and...

  Airbnb, a website for renting rooms in people’s homes, expects a three-fold increase in London rentals this summer as Olympics attendees skip pricey and crowded hotels to shack up with locals. The site has 4,500 bookings in London covering...

Serial entrepreneur Gina Bianchini is betting that people want to congregate and collaborate around common interests on a site other than Facebook. That’s why Mightybell, a startup she founded in 2010, is unveiling a new direction and a revamped design...

Mark Zuckerberg has returned to writing code after a six-year hiatus from programming, a fact revealed in Bloomberg Businessweek’s story today on how the Facebook founder hacked the world of Silicon Valley. Like many young entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg had given up...

A report on the declining percentage of Facebook users playing games on the social network got some attention recently. The problem is that one of its main conclusions may have been based on a flawed analysis. Last week, IHS Screen...