Facebook is no Googloid money-making machine, at least not when it comes to online retailing, according to a new study from the market-analysis firm Forrester Research.

The report looks at how retailers have used Facebook pages and the Open Graph protocol. It concludes that Facebook doesn’t drive sales for most retailers and that Facebook’s tools for businesses are no Google AdWords.

“While pockets of opportunity for Facebook do exist, the likelihood that Facebook will ever be ‘the next Google,’ thereby becoming a key sales-driving tool for retailers and creating a reliable revenue stream for Fa...

One of the first planes to dock at Virgin America’s new San Francisco International Airport terminal was a spaceship.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo arrived hitched between the twin fuselages of WhiteKnightTwo, its mothership and launch platform.

“For the first time we’ve brought the spaceship and WhiteKnight to a commercial airport…. It’s just a fantastic, exciting day,” says an obviously amped-up Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides. Before he was the company’s CEO, Whitesides was one of the first people to sign up for a $200,000 ticket to ride on the space plane.

Commercial flights will...