It’s Super Bowl week so it’s time to talk about chips – the ones that go in “smart” things, not the ones eaten by Americans. This week’s headlines have been dominated by Facebook. I hear they are quite big with the college kids. But, Qualcomm really is crushing it. They deserve a little attention. They are bigger than Facebook at $108 billion. Today, Qualcomm added approximately $5 billion to their market capitalization, thanks to a blowout quarter of sales ($6 billion) and profits ($2 billion).
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Qualcomm “Likes” Facebook, Apple, Google And Samsung
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Facebook Re-enables Tag Suggestions Face-Recognition Feature In the US
An anonymous reader writes “Facebook has brought back its photo Tag Suggestions feature to the U.S. after temporarily suspending it last year to make some technical improvements. Facebook says it has re-enabled it so that its users can use facial recog…
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Data centers haven’t just changed computing, they’ve changed communities
Following the opening of data centers, communities in Oregon, Washington and Virginia have made new policies, built many new homes and prompted environmental activism.
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Facebook experiments with small-scale software-defined networking
Facebook and others want to see use cases to better understand how software-defined networking can improve the cloud, so Facebook is testing it out in a sandbox environment.
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Pocket for iOS gets native sharing to Facebook, simpler option to delete articles
Good news are in for those who are avid users of Read it Later Pocket on iOS, as the handy application’s been updated with some social tools and a few UI improvements. For starters, version 4.3 now allows readers to share content directly to Facebook…
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Facebook takes gifts into the realm of plastic with launch of Facebook Gift Card
Facebook announced Thursday that it’s launching a Facebook Gift Card, a plastic re-loadable card that will allow users to send credits to friends for stores like Target, Sephora, or Olive Garden. The move comes as Facebook look to build out its e-commerce on the site.
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Facebook introduces ‘a new type of gift card,’ is a lot like the old types
If you’re still desperate to get that Facebook acquaintance something for their birthday or some kind of anniversary, the Social Network has instituted a new way to take your money give. You’ll be able to pick up gift credit for the likes of Jamba Ju…
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Social Ad Tech Platform Glow Raises $1.3M Seed To Expand Into U.S., Beef Up Senior Exec Team
Glow Digital Media, a social ad tech platform that sells services to Facebook advertisers to grow their marketing ROI, has closed a $1.3 million seed funding round. Investors in the round include Project A Ventures and Avonmore Developments. The U.K. startup said it has used the funding to expand into the U.S. — opening a new regional HQ in Los Angeles and hiring four new senior execs.
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Milestones: Facebook is a mobile company now. Are you?
If there was any question about the direction of Facebook going forward, Wednesday’s Q4 earnings put that to rest — Facebook is trying to be a mobile company, and making good gains so far in getting there. 
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Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You’re Feeling, Reading Or Eating
Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you select “what are you doing?”, and share an emoticon of different activities such as feeling, reading, listening, or eating. You can then select from media and emotions or add a custom text description to share something like “Niners in the Super Bowl – feeling ecstatic 
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