Last week, giant social network company Facebook rolled out an overhaul of its privacy settings and VentureBeat reporter Kim-Mai Cutler dubbed Facebook “the only place where a user can control how narrowly or broadly they want to share their interests and life.” That’s certainly part of Facebook’s appeal. Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan, however, dubbed the new privacy settings “exhaustin

Yahoo announced that it is integrating Facebook Connect across its properties today, giving the world’s biggest social network a prominent stage for showing how its social graph can interact with content. Yahoo is putting Connect on mail, news, sports and finance, letting users show how their friends are using Yahoo’s content and allowing them to share that activity back on Facebook. Yahoo’s Vice

Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M from Benchmark, Andreessen-Horowitz Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. Asana is probably one of the more anticipated startups in Silicon Valley right now. Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes fou

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: ‘Many CEOs are afraid to get too personal’ Marc Benioff has been the reliably outspoken chief executive of Salesforce.com for 10 years. Salesforce was one of the pioneers of the software-as-a-service business model, where traditional software is replaced by a web-based application that customers pay for via subscription, and he trumpeted the model with ads declaring