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Born in 1984, Mark Zuckerberg is chairman and chief executive of social networking site Facebook which he co-founded at Harvard. Initially, he wrote Facemash, in which students were allowed to vote on other students' attractiveness based on their photos. This was the 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.
The company – now known as Meta – must take responsibility for the content that appears on its many online platforms.
While governments and even Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have called for online regulation in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, the challenge lies in finding a way of curbing abuses while not restricting the benefits
- Joining the likes of Jeff Bezos, Giorgio Armani and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Mark Zuckerberg is the proud owner of a luxurious new superyacht
- The world’s largest-volume Dutch-built superyacht, with facilities which include a swimming pool and helipad, Launchpad was commissioned by billionaire Vladimir Potanin, who is subject to US sanctions
Zuckerberg compared Huang to the US pop star in an Instagram post, where they switched jackets in a ‘jersey swap’.
Global tycoons, heads of state, as well as Hollywood and Bollywood stars descended on Jamnagar, where Mukesh Ambani held a pre-wedding bash for his youngest son, Anant Ambani, and his long-time girlfriend Radhika Merchant.
Young users and parents say the billionaire was repeatedly warned that Instagram and Facebook weren’t safe for children, but he ignored the findings.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to deploy into its data centres this year a new version of a custom chip aimed at supporting its artificial intelligence push, according to an internal company document.
Meta and Amazon on Thursday blew through expectations in their latest quarterly results as Big Tech continued to impress Wall Street.
Social media firms have been accused of not doing enough to protect young people facing issues ranging from sexual predators to bullying to eating disorders.
Brian Eno, influential musician and producer, is the subject of Eno, a documentary that uses AI to generate a different version of the film each time it is shown. He explains why he embraced the project.
Sandberg stepped down as COO of Meta in 2022 but remained a member of the company board. She said she will continue to serve as an adviser to Meta.
Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ Gemini Trust was one of three companies accused of concealing losses and defrauding investors to the tune of US$1 billion this year – so what went wrong?
Enforced secrecy around Mark Zuckerberg’s gargantuan land development, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, has led to suspicion, controversy and some locals branding him ‘the face of neocolonialism’
Hijacked social media pages with real followers cloned to look like legitimate businesses by fraudsters, EGL Tours warns.
Andy Stone was added to the list on Sunday, Russian state new reported, weeks after Russian authorities in October classified Meta as a ‘terrorist and extremist’ organisation.
The Rolling Stones frontman recently revealed he won’t be leaving his US$500 million fortune to his 8 kids – so which other mega-wealthy celebs share the same sentiment towards their offspring?
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have seen the biggest wealth surges in 2023, but which ‘mega-billionaire’ on the list isn’t from the tech sector?
The Tesla boss, Meta’s Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and others took part in a closed-door forum focused on regulating artificial intelligence.
The social media barons exchanged verbal jabs at the weekend, with the Facebook founder saying ‘it’s time to move on’ because the world’s richest man wouldn’t agree to a date for a charity cage match.
The owner of X (formerly Twitter) promised ‘ancient Rome’ as a backdrop for the face-off, though Italy’s culture minister says the Colosseum won’t be the arena.
‘Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,’ Musk wrote in a post on Sunday on the platform formerly known as Twitter. ‘All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.’
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is partnering with Microsoft on the new version of the model, Llama 2, but did not disclose the financial terms.
ONE Championship flyweight submission grappling king Mikey Musumeci thinks Mark Zuckerberg will submit Elon Musk if they fight.
After years of bad press and scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is seeing his reputation spruced up in the fickle world of tech, largely thanks to the increasingly unpredictable behaviour of Elon Musk.
A chiselled Zuckerberg is pictured in between two of the most successful modern MMA fighters of this generation.
Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads, is topping China’s iOS app charts, despite Western social media apps like Instagram and Facebook being banned in the country by its “Great Firewall”.
The new platform has already logged over 30 million sign ups, as it takes advantage of Instagram’s billions of users.
Billed as a text-based version of Instagram, it appears to target users looking for an alternative to the platform now owned by Elon Musk.
Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu.
The two men have baited each other for years with opposing views on everything from politics to artificial intelligence.
Meta Platforms said it will lower the minimum age for a Quest headset user account from 13 years old to 10 later this year, despite rising concerns about children spending too much time on social media.
