Facebook investor and board member Jim Breyer insists the company has no plans to go public this year. "We are not planning a near term IPO," (near term as in 2010) Breyer told attendees at the DLD Conference in Munich Germany this week. Yuri Milner of DST -- which just invested millions into the top social network added: "We have permanent capital, we don't have to return money to investors so we can go long term ... So we're not planning our exit." At least according to All Facebook, "Many individuals were expecting the company to go public …

Challenging Apple's stigma as not business friendly, corporate use of the iPhone doubled since the release of the faster iPhone 3GS last summer, company COO Tim Cook said on an earnings call Monday. Cook said about 70% of Fortune 100 companies are testing or using iPhones as their corporate communications device -- largely credited to support for Microsoft Exchange. According to analysts, this gives the iPhone a fighting chance to take on RIM's BlackBerry. Yet, winning the hearts and minds of corporate America remains uphill battle for Apple. For one, a year after RIM created a new BlackBerry …

Showing that the savviest online media operations are susceptible to assault, hackers took down popular industry blog TechCrunch for several hours on Monday night. At around 10:30 pm PST, unknown hackers modified the TechCrunch home page to only display the word "hi." The page was later changed to read "We'll be back shortly," which suggested that webmasters had by then regained control of the site. Later in the night, the site was apparently hacked again, and a link called "rapidshare downloads" appeared on the home page, which pointed visitors to DupeDB, a known "warez" Web site. The hackers …

Less than 24 hours away from its official unveiling, Tablet Week continued apace on Tuesday with wild speculation over the impact Apple's new device will have on consumer behavior, publisher strategy, advertiser well-being, and the livelihood of rival device makers. "We all expect it will be a big deal," write Forrester Research analysts Charles Golvin and James McQuivey in a co-authored column for paidContent. With the tablet, "Apple may be giving the media industry a kind of time machine -- a chance to undo mistakes of the past," according to The New …

With an eye on TV Everywhere, Brightcove is introducing a new "solution pack" that will give broadcasters and cable networks tools to roll out new video services tied to consumer cable subscriptions. The TV Everywhere Solution Pack, so-called, is built on top of the company's recently released Brightcove 4 video platform, adding support for authentication and rights management that are largely considered necessary for new premium video services. TV Everywhere, if you weren't aware, is an industry-wide effort by programmers and cable companies to give customers on-demand access to the content they've already subscribed to. To date, many …

The Business Insider says it has "Revealed!" Facebook's plans to double its revenue, by giving users of its most popular game -- Zynga's FarmVille -- the ability to buy virtual goods -- in this case, tractors and seeds -- using "Pay With Facebook." In other works, Facebook will become the default payments system on its application platform. And, with 75 million monthly active users and 25 million daily active users, FarmVille is big business. As such, according to The Business Insider, some execs even think payments revenues can match or exceed Facebook's ad revenues. "Pay With Facebook" is …

StockTwits, which VentureBeat describes as "a sort of Motley Fool 2.0 for sharing investment information," has purchased financial news site Abnormal Returns. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. The idea behind the acquisition is to fold the two services into one another -- along with stock charts startup chart.ly, which StockTwits bought last year -- into a real-time financial news hub. Investor information about Abnormal Returns is apparently hard to come by, but VentureBeat says "It's presumed to be privately funded on the cheap by founder Tadas Viskanta." StockTwits was originally built entirely on top …

In the age of Facebook and Twitter, it's instructive to know just how many friendships the human brain is really able to handle. The answer? 150, according to a new study published by Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University. His research reveals that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of "meaningful friendships" is the same as it has been throughout history. Dunbar developed a theory known as "Dunbar's number" in the 1990s, which claimed that the size of our neocortex -- the part of the brain used for conscious …

Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan has a little -- actually a lot -- of search engine optimization advice for Bill Gates to help him better optimize his new blog. It ranked fourth on Google when Sullivan first searched for "bill gates blog" -- and now ranks behind Sullivan's own post on the subject. Worse still, it didn't even show up on Bing. Sullivan tells Bill that one of the most important elements in controlling rank is a page's title tags. "Ideally, each page on your web site has a title that reflects the terms you hope that page …

With the launch of what Apple is calling its "latest creation" just days away, it's officially Tablet Week for the entire industry. Publishers recently contacted by Apple about the launch tell 9to5Mac blog to expect a major partnership announcement, likely with "all of the major publishers." They also say Apple has been pitching itself against Amazon's model, arguing that its own "Agency model" gives publishers more control and freedom over pricing. Corroborating multiple accounts, the publishers describe the tablet as "a very-readable 10-inch glass screen smaller in size than …