Tag archive: Sean Parker

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

It's not often that you hear of someone switching from Facebook to Myspace. But in a surprising instance of life imitating art (that imitates life), Justin Timberlake did just that: The actor and singer has reportedly purchased an ownership stake in MySpace, along with fellow buyer Specific Media. The former N'SNYC member, who played Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker in The Social Network, will help revamp the… Read More

As Facebook's value has surged, so have the fortunes of its founders. On the 2011 Forbes “World's Billionaires” list, six of Facebook's early architects have made the cut. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits atop the company's richest, ranking in as the 52nd richest person in the world. That's a significant jump from last year, which had him at number 212 on the Forbes list.… Read More

Facebook is unanimously recognized as having altered the Internet, communication, and generally everything about our social lives. Every single update and modification is noted nearly instantaneously by its billions of users, and we use the site to organize and engage in our digital lives. But what about the things Facebook has created? Remember if you can, that it took more than just Mark Zuckerberg to get Facebook off the ground, and the… Read More

Cable operator Comcast has announced it will be acquiring pioneering social networking site Plaxo as a leg up to implementing social networking features across its television and, eventually, mobile platforms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but industry reports and one source put the eventual payout between $140 and $180 million, contingent upon future performance. “Joining forces with Comcast is a real win for our customers,… Read More

Would you like to be able to make an infinite number of domestic calls for free? That’s exactly what a new company called Ooma is offering.  They’re bringing in a new peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network that could change the way people call. The idea is to charge a one-time fee of $399 for their Ooma hub, afterwhich all domestic calls would be free.   It would charge for international calls and also… Read More