An American entrepreneur who sued Facebook and its chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, was arrested and charged with fabricating evidence to support his multibillion-dollar claim that he...
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Mark Zuckerberg
Born 1984, Mark Zuckerberg is chairman and chief executive of social networking site Facebook which he . co-founded at Harvard, where he majored in computer science and psychology. At Harvard, Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, a program written for “fun” in which students were allowed to vote on the attractiveness of other students based on their photos. This became a template for Facebook. Since 2010 Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine and his life was dramatised in the movie, The Social Network. He married Priscilla Chan in May 2012, the same month in which Facebook launched a US$16 billion initial public offering.
Facebook’s chief operating officer was in New York this week working to bolster investor confidence with assurances that the social network was intent on making money.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was on Monday in Moscow on a visit the government believes should stimulate innovation in Russia and the social network hopes will boost its position in the...
It's interesting to see some investors are urging Mark Zuckerberg to step down, for the stock price of the company he leads has been dropping since IPO in May.
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Events of the past few days, including the Facebook flotation and the continuing wailing Greek tragedy, have illustrated that Western capitalism is losing its way.
What would you do if you had a net worth of US$19 billion, ran one of the planet's fastest-growing companies and found yourself on top of the world at the tender age of 28 - with every celebrity,...
Getting a piece of the Facebook initial public offering action would seem like the surest of investments. The online social network has head-and-shoulders more daily users than any other, with 540...
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