Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided to leave Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform pushing political action committee FWD.us Friday evening because he doesn't agree with the group's habit of supporting politicians on both sides of the aisle, just so long as they support immigration.
Voters in South Carolina may see a new spot from "Americans for a Conservative Direction," promoting Senator Lindsey Graham as an anti-Obamacare, anti-spending Republican. They probably won't realize the real force behind the spot: Mark Zuckerberg.
Led by Facebook's Zuckerberg, a number of Silicon Valley executives today announced an initiative to facilitate immigration reform. Or, more likely, to ensure that reform includes the sorts of changes the tech industry wants to see.
Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that Facebook is neither building a phone nor an app — because those aren't good enough. Here's your first look at Home, a full screen's worth of Facebook greeting you as soon as your turn on your device. And then there are "chat heads" and "cover feeds" and more. Oh, and it's for more than just one phone.
Hacker News today surfaced this Angel Fire page that looks like it was created by a 15-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, which we hope is the case because it would be a wonderful little look into a hacker's humble beginnings.
Forget making the world more open and connected. Facebook has a more pressing, arguably more difficult task ahead: creating advertisements that its billion users both "like" and actually like. And Mark Zuckerberg is finally speaking out about it.
Facebook has unveiled what it calls a "mobile first" new homepage look and — as expected — it takes up more space, meaning bigger ads. There's also a multi-faceted feed, seeking to transform the social network into "the most personalized newspaper in the world." Here's your first look, and how to sign up.
Word has leaked that Mark Zuckerberg will unveil separate feeds for different types of content at an event tomorrow, transforming the News Feed of 2013 into Facebook's September issue, only with five subdivided sections of the second most popular website in the world.
Facebook is holding a mysterious event next week to introduce "a new look" for its tired News Feed, and, yes, the speculation has begun. Here's what a revamp might look like.
In an attempt to get more schools to offer programming classes, Code.org has released a promotional video filled with celebrities and "celebrities" that basically says: learn code and you too can work in a hip Silicon Valley office.
February really is the cruelest month because, on top of all this snow, one is forced to start contemplating death, or at least filling out one's taxes. You might be left scratching your head, and wishing you had a better accountant, when you hear how Facebook is getting hundreds of millions in a tax refund this year.
Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Randi Zuckerberg is writing a memoir called Dot Complicated — and her deal with HarperCollins calls for yet another book after that.
On the occasion of Facebook's ninth anniversary, pretty much the whole Internet has decided to get nostalgic. Here's how.
Facebook announced Thursday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will host his first political fundraiser at his home for... New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Is the world's most famous young exec actually a conservative wolf in a Silicon Valley hoodie? Time for an investigation.
Expanding the Facebook experience to what he called its "third pillar," CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced that the social network was banking big on a friend-optimized new product it calls Graph Search.
Facebook is testing some "extreme" prices for a new feature that puts users' Messages inbox up for sale, beginning with that of its CEO, whose attention can be yours for, well, a hundred bucks.
Mark Zuckerberg usually leaves the coding to the plebes. He's a CEO now, b- you know the rest. Anyway, he's CEO now. But it turns out he put some very personal touches on Facebook's new Poke app, his company's answer to Snapchat.
Fans of philanthropy around the world gave Mark Zuckerberg a collective slow clap on Tuesday night when he committed to donating nearly $500 million worth of Facebook stock to charity.
Oh how the tables have turned: The feds have arrested Paul Ceglia, the man who sued Facebook for 50 percent stake in the social network, charging him with attempting to defraud Mark Zuckerberg.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to talk up the site's one billionth user, he ended up spending a lot of time defending the future of the site.
The best thing about Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Russia is that we've figured out one more person who warrants a wardrobe change from the Facebook wunderkind. The second best thing? That we found out Dmitry Medvedev is a Zuckerberg fanboy.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the Harvard graduate twins who just couldn't stop suing Mark Zuckerberg for creating Facebook, have finally found their calling: creating a Facebook-like website.
Within the first minutes of his first public speaking engagement since the IPO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the stock has been a disappointment.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ensured the world that he would not pull a Peter Theil and sell his shares within the next 12 months, as indicated in this form filed today with the SEC.
Today's New York Times Thursday Styles section features a story by Laura M. Holson all about the busy philanthropic life of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's wife, Wendy Schimdt, who spends a lot of her time (and money) making life better on the island of Nantucket.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about money, so why does he find the Facebook stock failure so "painful?"
Yesterday after markets closed both Facebook and Amazon reported earnings that should have had similar effects, yet Facebook disappointed and Amazon didn't.
Today in books and publishing: A former employee reveals some juicy Facebook secrets; a book from Amy Winehouse's dad; read to get out of jail; Dear Abby takes on book clubs.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg posted the first part of his sit-down with former Israeli President Shimon Peres, and got him to expound a bit on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, or as Goldberg irreverently describes him, "the person who may be [Peres's] favorite Jew in the world."
As we watched Colin Powell sing "Call Me Maybe" on CBS This Morning, a little piece of us died. These trend-killers, or, as we here dub them "trenemies," must be stopped.
Just because the general population cares about the every move of one Silicon Valley tech executive does not mean the geeks to the north are anything like Hollywood types.
Today: Mark Zuckerberg may be a light tipper, Matthew Fox may be a lady beater, and Joshua Jackson may not be putting a ring on Diane Krueger anytime soon.
We're not exactly crying over the $4.7 billion in net worth Mark Zuckerberg lost over 11 days, but here's one way to measure it: he's no longer one of the 40 richest human beings on the planet, as ranked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
A Big Guy v. Little Guy narrative has emerged from this post-Facebook IPO fallout. We already know about the Big Guy -- Facebook and its underwriters -- but now we're starting to hear what those little guys have to say.
In the many phases of how to feel about Mark Zuckerberg's marriage, we have reached "wedding shaming." Is it possible for a billionaire to have a nice, relatively normal wedding without being mocked for it?
As Facebook's stock continues its slump, now trading even lower than yesterday's low, the Internet has reached a consensus on why the IPO of the year isn't performing: Advertising.
A sweet story about a young couple seeing all their dreams come true has quickly turned into a different tale of cold financial calculation that could only warm the heart of a tax accountant.
As the stock market pounds Facebook's freshly issued shares, the social network's second day on the market hasn't eased our fears that we're in a social media bubble. In fact, it only suggests the bubble is coming to its end.
With a weekend to figure things out, we've got a few suspects to blame for the mess that was Facebook's IPO debut on Friday.
The spending culture at Facebook, just as we suspected, adds more evidence that this is a seflish social media bubble, which has kept its money relatively contained -- for good and ill -- to the tech world.
Proving that this Facebook IPO, a.k.a. the sexiest thing to happen to Wall Street, just might be unstoppable, Zuckerberg and friends announced today that the company would be selling 25 percent more shares on Friday--421.2 million to be exact.
There's nothing much heroic about Mark Zuckerberg or the social network he runs -- it's a website and he's just the nerdy awkward man-boy who runs the operation. Or is there something more?
How do we explain the two contradictory headlines about Facebook's IPO this morning? From Reuters, we get "Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source"; and from Bloomberg comes, Facebook IPO Said to Get Weaker-Than-Forecast Demand."
We love our commenters, especially when they dive into conflicts near to our hearts like the cultural divide between New York and San Francisco, and even when their points don't make sense at first blush.
Mark Zuckerberg has committed a big business-fashion faux-pas, say the very fashionable suits of Wall Street, who are chastising the nerd-turned-billionaire for wearing his hoodie on day one of his big IPO road-show.
After two days on the road, Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg has not impressed investors with his business savvy, when that's just what he should be doing.
Based on accounts we've seen, the first stop on Facebook's IPO roadshow was a hectic event.
With Facebook's IPO debut upon us, we're seeing a shift in perception of the once immature founders: They've gone from a bunch of lucky kids to shrewd entrepreneurs and CEOs.
Just a few days before their IPO roadshow is set to kick off, Facebook has released a half-hour long video love letter to would-be investors.
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