Tag archive: Menlo Park

Facebook is planning on growing quite aggressively over the next few years. Recently unveiled plans for the Menlo Park migration reveal Facebook's intent to quickly push the current 3600 worker cap and build a second campus using the 22 acres southwest of the former Sun Microsystems facility. Facebook, currently with a little over 1,500 employees, has been growing too big for its Palo Alto britches with 750 million users, a sharp growth in… Read More

After only a year and a half, Facebook has outgrown its offices in Palo Alto, reports TechCrunch. The social networking site will be moving 3.6 miles down the road to Menlo Park. Both locations are in the San Francisco Bay area, also known as Silicon Valley. The new facility, which used to house Sun Microsystems in its heyday, is composed of 11 buildings over 57 acres, with an additional 22 acres of offices connected to the complex by tunnel.… Read More

If you’ve ever fantasized about snapping your laptop in half in a fit of anger, now you can finally pull it off – without breaking anything. On Sunday, the Menlo-Park-based startup Always Innovating announced the Touch Book, a specialized netbook with a detachable screen. Using a set of hinged rails, the 8.9-inch screen on the Touch Book slides right off the attached keyboard. Because the hardware for the computer is built… Read More

After gaining steam with Google Docs, Google’s Web-based alternative to Microsoft’s traditional Office suite, the Menlo Park giant rolled yet another Microsoft competitor onto the Web on Thursday. Google Sites challenges Microsoft Sharepoint by offering a simplified way to build team Web sites where groups can easily collaborate and share information with one another. “Creating a team web site has always been too… Read More