Tag archive: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook filing for an initial public stock offering isn't exactly a surprise, but it does provide a first-ever opportunity to look inside some of Facebook's business fundamentals. Guess what? Some of those business fundamentals aren't exactly what potential investors and the general public expected — and a few point to the ways Facebook will have to behave in the future to keep its new investors happy. What could that mean… Read More

As detailed by a Sophos Security post earlier today, the IT security blog conducted a poll of over 4,000 Facebook users in order to determine a general consensus regarding Facebook's new Timeline feature rolling out to profiles over the next few weeks. Over 50 percent of respondents claimed to be worried about Facebook Timeline and an additional 32 percent responded “I don't know why I'm still on Facebook.” Only 8… Read More

Mentioned within a public Facebook status update on his personal account, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg spoke out against both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) Internet piracy bills. Within the post, Zuckerberg states “The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the Internet's development. Facebook… Read More

Discovered by Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby, a complex Facebook phishing scheme first obtains access to a user's Facebook account through standard phishing methods. Once the scam artist gains access to any account, they change the user picture to the Facebook logo or icon and alter the user's name to “Facebook Security” that contains specific ascii characters to replace a few select letters. While pretending to… Read More

According to a report from Reuters published on Tuesday, the social network company Facebook has launched an update that allows users to report any content posted on the site and categorize the post as “suicidal content” in the options. Facebook then sends an email to the suicidal user which contains methods of contact to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline which include a URL link for a direct online chat or the phone number.… Read More

It started off as will-it won't-it speculation and has since developed into a when-exactly-will-it guessing game. Facebook’s possible initial public offering (IPO) has been the subject of much discussion in recent years with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg saying earlier this month that an IPO was possible “at some point” but that it was important “to build this company so that it’s great over the long term.” All very vague, then. A Wall… Read More

According to Michael Ellsberg, we’ve been lied to. The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late author believes that the graduate-high-school-go-to college-graduate-college-get-successful-career arrangement has become so antiquated it’s dangerous. “Most of our current thoughts about education were formed during our parents’ generation, who went to college in the 50s and 60s. And our economy, America, was… Read More

Facebook’s CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, appeared on Charlie Rose last night to discuss the social network’s evolution and their respective leadership roles. While we’ve all heard Facebook’s mission statement and professions of connecting the world time and time again, both executives were surprisingly candid about a number of subjects. Facebook’s potential IPO “We’ve made this implicit promise to our investors and to our… Read More

Sean Parker, officially Facebook's first president, has officially launched his own Twitter account. His first tweet was fairly blunt, “Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually. (Actually @scooterbraun made me do it.)” Scooter Braun happens to be a talent agent, so it seems as though Parker joining Twitter today was part of a bigger plan. Parker has recently been backing the streaming music service Spotify, but he is also building a new… Read More

If you watched Mark Zuckerberg’s presentation at this year’s f8 you might have been left underwhelmed by his sales pitch. Luckily for us Mad Men’s creative genius Don Draper has decided to help, thanks to some fancy editing by Eric Leist. Leist modified a scene from AMC’s Mad Men so that Don Draper is pitching Timeline to some clients. The video, below, really isn’t modified much at all. The pitch made my Draper is kept intact, and none of the… Read More

In a recent survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Sodahead, the social voting-based site found that 86 percent of the Facebook audience gave a strong dislike to the changes announced by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's F8 conference this week. Teens and women showed the most contempt for the upcoming changes with approximately 90 percent of each group railing against the alterations. About 80 percent of young adults and men had a dislike… Read More

Despite giving tons of the stuff away, Bill Gates still has loads of it. And even more than he had this time last year. The vast wealth of the Microsoft co-founder has ensured he retains his position at the top of Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in the US today. The list, published on Wednesday, puts his net worth at $59 billion, up $5 billion on last year’s figures. But look who’s coming up the list – that’s right, Facebook… Read More

Are you ready for even more Facebook news? Reports are stating that the social media giant might delay its IPO until late 2012. People close to the company are saying that the decision to remain private has nothing to do with the shaky stock market. Originally it was thought that Facebook would file for its IPO by April 2012. The delay is said to be due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanting the company to focus on new products, and not on money.… Read More

They've gone from almost inventing Facebook to peddling nuts. The Winklevoss twins do not want to let go of the spotlight. In a settlement with Facebook a few years back, the duo netted $65 million from Mark Zuckerberg and Company. These days, the value of that settlement (in Facebook shares) is worth more than $120 million, according to the NY Times, but Tyler and Cameron aren't content. The Winklevosses have made quite a name for… Read More

On Thursday, lawyers representing Facebook declared that they uncovered the 'smoking gun' in the ownership lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia. The lawsuit claims that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave away half of the company to Ceglia in exchange for $1,000 of seed money within a 2003 contract. In addition, Ceglia also claims the contract awards him one percent of the company for each day Facebook wasn't online after January… Read More