As inevitable as air, Silicon Valley likes to build them up and then tear them down.
Thus, the bell now tolls for Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg.
We at BoomTown have been consistent and persistent in voicing our various worries about the young entrepreneur, from one of our very first posts, questioning (we think fairly) the [...]

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Poor Facebook VP Owen Van Natta–locked away all day on such a lovely Bay Area weekend.

He and other Facebook execs spent Saturday and Sunday blabbing away with potential partners into the night, as Facebook looks to complete a commercial deal with either Yahoo, Google or Microsoft to serve its international ads.

But the execs are also trying to nail down a big funding that will potentially give the hotsy-totsy social network a giant slug of cash, as well as a lofty $15 billion valuation.

No deal as yet, but sources close to Facebook said it was now a horse race between Microsoft, which already serves Facebook’s ads in the U.S., and Google. Yahoo, sources said, is a long-shot dark horse in the bidding.

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Former Yahoo executive Lloyd Braun and his partner Gail Berman, a former Paramount executive, have struck an online deal with Pepsi, under which the entertainment and marketing arm of the beverage giant will be a “first-look” and have a chance to fund and sponsor original online content the pair produces.

That Hollywood term refers to giving [...]

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It’s true I have been bugging Facebook–the Internet company of the moment–about showing me the money, that is to say the secret master plan to turn the popular social-networking site into a cash-gushing business.

Thus, I finally got a sit-down with the Money Guy at Facebook, Media Sales Vice President Mike Murphy.
I had known the affable [...]

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