Facebook Apps Chosen To Be Rewarded With Big Bucks
At his keynote yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the first recipients of grants from the fbFund - the $10 million pile of money from the Founders F...
At his keynote yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the first recipients of grants from the fbFund - the $10 million pile of money from the Founders F...
Nick Revell | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living
Don't know if anyone else has Facebook friends in Darfur. But you send that invitation out to them, and do any of them join? Not one. Instead it's "Who will OD first? Amy, Britney, Lindsay or Paris."
Huffington Post | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
It doesn't seem like so long ago that Microsoft invested a ton of money in Facebook that, with some math, seemed to value the social networking site t...
Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
Bad news for the Winklevoss brothers, who claim that Mark Zuckerberg stole Facebook from them when they were all back at Harvard: A Federal judge has ...
Rolling Stone | Claire Hoffman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
It's a sunny afternoon in downtown Palo Alto, California, and inside the graffiti-covered walls of the Facebook headquarters, workmen are hanging ligh...
The Wealth Report | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
When it comes to relationships with dot-com billionaires, pre-nups are becoming passe, and post-nups have become commonplace. The new trend in high-te...
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
What I found in the Time 100 list was another manifestation of an insulated editorial mindset that pervades many media outlets today: that consumers are dumb.
New York Times | Brad Stone | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business
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Valleywag | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Dustin Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate, recently stopped speaking to him. This has made things awkward at Facebook's Palo Alto campus, a...
Wall Street Journal | Carol Hymowitz | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
Sheryl Sandberg wants to bring to Facebook what she brought to Google: discipline and inventiveness to foster rapid growth. Two weeks into her job as...
Forbes Via ABC News | Andrew Farrell | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
There are 110 single men on Forbes' 2008 list of the world's richest people. The youngest? Mark Zuckerberg, 23. He founded social networking site Fac...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business
For now, Facebook continues to take over the world. Its global traffic is about to blow past MySpace's, its image (and Mark Zuckerberg's) has recovere...
BusinessWeek | Spencer E. Ante and Catherine Holahan | Posted 03.10.2008 | Business
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, 23, has developed a reputation, deserved or not, for being aloof and arrogant. And who can blame him? The Ha...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media
Last week's first sign of the apocalypse: The New York Times' decision to tease, on the front page of its business section, a tiny story inside on a m...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 02.01.2008 | Business
Kara Swisher listened in on a Facebook company conference call in which CEO Mark Zuckerberg helpfully provided detailed financial information for the ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 01.15.2008 | Media
The upside of Mark Zuckerberg's squirmy performance "60 Minutes": No one watched it. The CBS show, which averages 14.3 million viewers an airing, drew...
Ari Melber | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media
Growing up online, young people assume their inner circle knows their business. The "new privacy" is about controlling how many people know--not if anyone knows.
Forbes | Andy Greenberg | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business
Forget about gleaning leadership lessons from the likes of Attila the Hun or Alexander the Great. These days, great chief executives have to know when...
Time | Bill Saporito | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business
#1. The Public Invests in Blackstone Group It was only a matter of time before the private equity firms let the public in on the game -- for an infla...
Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media
On Facebook, I felt like Hester Prynn in cyberia; my scarlet letters branding me with my political proclivities.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.30.2007 | Media
It's one thing to ask someone to join your promotional army. Conscripting them without their consent is something else entirely.
Valleywag | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
Is Mark Zuckerberg's heart two sizes too small? Is Facebook ruining Christmas? Ask Tasha Valdez and the answer is duh. Facebook's privacy-invading Bea...
Business Week | Catherine Holahan | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool that publicizes users' Web activitie...
BusinessWeek | Nick Leiber | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business
This past summer, we kicked off our third annual contest to identify and recognize the most promising young U.S. entrepreneurs. The goal was to find b...
AP | Michael Liedtke | Posted 10.24.2007 | Media
Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online se...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Silicon Alley Insider | Vasanth Sridharan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business