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Stories about: Mark Zuckerberg |
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A year after Facebook’s IPO fiasco from May 2012, Mark Zuckerberg’s approval rate is still high.
A few hours before Facebook became a publicly traded company, Mark Zuckerberg was everyone’s favorite and he got a standing ovation from his employees.
However, over the course of the next few months,... |
15 May 2013
06:01 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg has built one of the biggest web companies of all time and he's not even 30. He's already started being involved with philanthropy, in a big way, and he's also getting political with the FWD.us group which lobbies for immigration and education reform.
Those two goals have proven quite ... |
11 May 2013
07:41 GMT |
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Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the newest members of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration reform group FWD.us announced in early April.
Both Gates and Ballmer are thus showing their support for the immigration reform backed by the group and the concepts it promotes, such as offering engineering gra... |
26 April 2013
18:11 GMT |
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Forbes has published its yearly richest people in the world list. There haven't been that many changes up top, but there have been some shake ups among tech billionaires.
The richest tech billionaire is still Bill Gates, even after all his donations, with an estimated net worth of $67 billion.
Fellow software... |
5 March 2013
10:12 GMT |
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There's a great push, mostly in Silicon Valley, to get people, kids in particular, to learn to code. There's nothing particularly wrong with that, though some of the more extreme views are that "everyone" should learn to code, which is probably not true.
In any case, to encourage more kids to leave their ... |
26 February 2013
09:56 GMT |
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There's no love lost between Facebook and Google. Especially in the early days, Facebook, or rather Mark Zuckerberg, saw Google as the ultimate enemy and made sure it had as little to do with Google as possible. That's mostly true these days, while the two companies have to work together on some things, t... |
22 February 2013
05:47 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have been named some of the biggest philanthropists of 2012 for their charity donations which amounted to around $500 million, €372 million, depending on Facebook stock price. In fact, only billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the richest men on Earth, gave more, some ... |
12 February 2013
07:45 GMT |
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NBC’s Matt Lauer scored an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on The Today Show and revealed to the world that Tim Cook sent the Facebook boss a free iPhone 5, as a token of appreciation. Facebook and Apple may have had their differences in the past, Ping being just one brainchild spurred by the faile... |
3 October 2012
07:24 GMT |
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If you aren't getting enough of reality TV, who does frankly, don't worry, there's more coming your way. And if you're tired of singing, dancing, cooking, etc. shows, reality TV mogul Simon Cowell and rapper Will.i.am, known for his unique spelling skills and for being part of the Black Eyed Peas,... |
1 October 2012
04:41 GMT |
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This time last year, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was one of the richest people in the world rapidly climbing through the rankings. With the IPO coming and Facebook's valuation reaching new heights, it couldn't have been a sweeter time. How much of a difference a year can make. Today, Mar... |
20 September 2012
09:52 GMT |
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If there's something that's been more rumored than the mythical Amazon smartphone that was "confirmed" just days of Amazon's big announcement, which wasn't about any phone, it's the Facebook smartphone.
The company is supposedly working on it for years and has gone through several projects ... |
12 September 2012
06:11 GMT |
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For a long time, Facebook has been a big proponent of HTML5. For good reason too, HTML5 and web technologies in general are standard, well known by a lot of people, work on a lot of platforms and always get better. But Facebook is realizing that HTML5 is not the be all, end all, so much so that founder and CEO Mark ... |
12 September 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Chinese police needs recruits just like every other police force in the world. And what better way to get some than to entice impressionable youngsters with the adventures they'll have in the country's elite police forces.
A dramatic video full of technology, explosions, computers, and 21th century sleuthi... |
28 May 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Facebook is reportedly working hard to become an important player on the mobile phone market. For fear of ending up just a simple application installed on a mobile operating system, Mark Zuckerberg is trying to build a phone for Facebook fans.
That way, addicts of the social network will be offered with a whole pack... |
28 May 2012
03:47 GMT |
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It's been quite a week for Facebook CEO and visionary Mark Zuckerberg as he's seen two long-term investments pay off. For one, Facebook, the company he founded eight years ago in his Harvard dorm room, has gone public in one of the biggest deals of its kind in history.
Eager to wrap things up with the othe... |
21 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Facebook's IPO came and went without a hitch. Stock price didn't surge in the first day as some expected, in fact it needed some help to stay above the initial price. But all that means is that Facebook made as much money as it could have in the deal. It netted some $16 billion, €12.6 billion in one da... |
19 May 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Everyone is talking about Pinterest recently and for good reason. The site came almost out of nowhere and is seeing the type of growth that rivals Facebook's and even Google+'s in their hay day.What's more, the site seems to only now start to pick up steam. No surprise then, perhaps, that Mark Zuckerbe... |
15 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Facebook likes to maintain a certain atmosphere at its offices and it pretty much succeeds, they don't look like any corporate office you'd be used to. The wide open spaces contribute to that and so do the decorations.
Graffitied walls are a staple of Facebook and that's true for Facebook's new h... |
24 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Sophos’ Senior Technology Consultant, Graham Cluley, has discovered a new phishing scam that has the potential to trick Apple fans into signing up for a mobile phone subscription service that charges them £4.50 (around 7 bucks) every week.
According to Cluley, scammers are hoping to catch you off guard w... |
9 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg may not be as well known to the general public as Steve Jobs is for example, but his influence is hard to overstate. And, while they may not have heard of Zuckerberg, most people are using or have at least heard of Facebook.
So a story about a 27-year old CEO and cofounder who is leading one of the b... |
5 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Forbes has published its yearly Most Powerful People in the world list. As you'd expect, US President Barack Obama sits at the top of the list, followed by Russia's Prime Minister and de facto leader Vladimir Putin.But you don't have to look too far down the list to see that, among the politicians, tec... |
5 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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With Steve Jobs' biography coming out so soon after his death, there's understandably a lot of interest in it. But, while the timing couldn't have been better, the book actually has a lot of interesting things in it, among them, Jobs' view on his rivals.Jobs didn't like Google and he didn... |
24 October 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Larry Page has finally managed to overtake Mark Zuckerberg, on Google Plus at least. Unflattering perhaps, but Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been the most followed (circled) person on Google's social network since the first week.As the site grew, so did his audience. While other users had popula... |
24 October 2011
03:40 GMT |
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Sean Parker became famous, some would say notorious, after The Social Network, where he was a pivotal character. In the tech circles, he's been well known for a lot longer, having helped create and shape Napster and, yes, Facebook.These days, he's touting the Spotify horn to whomever's listening.While ... |
4 October 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Money definitely doesn’t buy style. Billions of dollars mean nothing if one doesn’t have a sense of style or, as is the case of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, can’t be bothered to care about fashion. He’s just topped GQ’s worst-dressed list. Taking a look at the men of Silicon... |
4 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg is back in the Google+ top users, having removed the restriction disabling others from seeing who has added him to a circle. The same goes for some top Google execs, which had also fallen off the radar and which are now back in the running.Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg is still king of the hill with... |
15 July 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Early after Google+ launched, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, joined the site. This was quite a big event, though he didn't think much of it. But people were curious what Zuckerberg would say about Google+ - he actually hasn't said anything on the site - so he became the most followed person o... |
13 July 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the one that unveiled the new video calling feature in a press event. But, while the announcement was interesting in itself, a lot of people were very interested in the elephant in the room, Google+ and its video chat feature, Hangouts.
Zuckerberg deflected questions about Google+ ... |
7 July 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Google+ is still very restrictive in terms of who and how many people can get in, yet several tens of thousands, perhaps more, already have an account.
What's more, many web and tech stars have an account as well and, because there is a way of following users, Twitters-style, in Google+, some users have amas... |
5 July 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Google+ is only a few days old, but it's gotten quite a lot of interest, mostly warranted only because it looks like it's the first Google social product that works. Perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising then that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself joined the new social network.
There were severa... |
4 July 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Facebook is planning to roll out an iPad-optimized application in the coming weeks, with tablet-specific UI elements, and the ability to upload photos directly from the iPad’s built-in cameras.
An iOS Facebook app is available for users of an iPhone or iPod touch, and while the software is compatible with th... |
17 June 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Since his social platform is currently a hugely popular one that attracts new users every day, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is also getting a lot of attention, including a comic book portraying his life.Zuckerberg is no stranger to having his life analyzed and used for artistic purposes, considering he ... |
25 February 2011
14:44 GMT |
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In what was definitely one of the biggest moments on Saturday Night Live, actor Jesse Eisenberg came face to face with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the latest show. Andy Samberg was also there to describe the meeting as “awk-berg!”Rumors about Zuckerberg probably putting in an appearance on the SNL... |
31 January 2011
05:07 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg's official Facebook page was taken offline after a hacker hijacked it and posted a message to his 2.8 million fans.The rogue update posted on the page read: "Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook ... |
26 January 2011
03:50 GMT |
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In a rather unusual incident, a hacker managed to deface the website of the Kenyan police and dedicated the attack to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Kenyapolice.go.ke normally contains information about and provided by Kenya's primary national law enforcement body.However, earlier today visitors of the site... |
4 January 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins a growing number of billionaires pledging to give away most of their fortune to charity. The "Giving Pledge" asks wealthy individuals to pledge to donate most of their money either during their life or after their death. Zuckerberg, who is 26 at the moment, is one of ... |
9 December 2010
05:43 GMT |
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The Social Network topped box offices in the US in its opening weekend, raking in $23 million. The movie depicts the, rather fictionalized, early days of Facebook and the drive of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's creator, to build a great product without letting anything around him, including friends, stop him. As a ... |
4 October 2010
03:41 GMT |
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As rumored in the past days, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, announced his $100 million donation on the Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday. Along with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker, he went on the show explaining the goal of his new foundation called Startup: Education wh... |
25 September 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg is certainly one of the more controversial figures in Silicon Valley. Facebook's early days, which have been made into a highly-anticipated Hollywood movie, don't paint a pretty picture. But Zuckerberg's latest move seems to contradict all you've heard about him, the world's y... |
23 September 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Forbes has released its latest edition of the 400 top wealthiest Americans. While the list is dominated by familiar figures, Bill Gates as always, there are some impressive movements in the lower ranks, notably Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's rise from number 135 to number 35. Zuckerberg's is probably the bi... |
23 September 2010
06:30 GMT |
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Turns out you can't block founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. Supposedly, this was possible earlier, just like you can block any other Facebook user. But now, due to a bug, inside joke or whatever the reason, trying to do so will result in an error. You can try it out for yourself, just go to Zuckerbe... |
23 August 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Hollywood is generally not that interested in Silicon Valley, as a subject. The corporate tech world and fledgling startups don’t generally make for the most exciting of stories. Every once in a while though Hollywood does look a north towards the tech capital of the world, like is the case with the upcoming Fa... |
8 July 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Facebook’s well-known and somewhat controversial CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apparently in danger of facing the death penalty in Pakistan. A Pakistani lawyer is said to have filed a petition with the court to have charges brought against the CEO and a couple of its co-founders for blasphemy against Muhammad, which i... |
19 June 2010
05:54 GMT |
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There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook privacy and, while a lot of it is warranted, it seems that most people are just exaggerating or reiterating the same points. Nonetheless, it’s a subject that’s not going away anytime soon and it looks like all this may have actually spurred change at the mam... |
24 May 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Facebook has just turned six and it's proving quite an eventful birthday. CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has just posted a teary-eyed message on just how important the social network is and just how many lives it irrevocably changed, presumably for the better. But sprinkled in there was a piece of info much mo... |
5 February 2010
07:19 GMT |
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When a new year begins, we all start to create statistics and reports regarding the year that has just passed, and to make predictions for the ongoing one. When it comes to Facebook, we could only expect it to increase its popularity and its member base even more. It is when we analyze the 2009 reports that we find t... |
23 January 2010
08:20 GMT |
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a short appearance for an on-stage interview at the Crunchies conference on Friday. He touched on some of the broad subjects surrounding Facebook at the moment, nothing spectacular, except his view on the recent privacy changes at the social network and online privacy as a whole, wh... |
11 January 2010
02:39 GMT |
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Facebook is the world's biggest and most popular social network, and Columbia Pictures believes it can turn it into a, hopefully, equally popular movie, as the movie company is in "advanced talks" with Director David Fincher, whose works include "Fight Club" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The movie w... |
24 June 2009
09:40 GMT |
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