Topic: Mark Zuckerberg

Why Elon Musk Broke Up with Mark Zuckerberg's PAC

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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. 

By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 18, 2012

Instagram Was Mark Zuckerberg's Last Hurrah as Facebook's Hacker King

As more details of the Instagram deal come out, it has become clear that Mark Zuckerberg pulled off a big billion dollar app deal while he still could, before the Facebook founder has to answer to the shareholders and board members of a public company. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 28, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg's Chinese Vacation Doesn't Seem Like Much of a Vacation

Though Facebook's calling Mark Zuckerberg's Shanghai trip a "vacation," whatever the Facebook CEO is doing over there with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan doesn't look like too much fun.

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By John Hudson

Mar 23, 2012

Some Other People Who, by Geraldo's Standards, Are Asking to Be Shot

Today, Fox News' resident fashion expert Geraldo Rivera finally cut through the noise and got to the heart of why unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot in the chest in February: He was wearing a hoodie.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 23, 2012

Suddenly Facebook Is in the Privacy Business

Remember when everybody hated Facebook because it invaded their privacy, kept them from getting their dream job and embarrassed them in front of their friends and family?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 2, 2012

How Many More Banks Does Facebook Need for Its IPO?

It's hard not to make a cheesy pun about Facebook friending practically all of the major banks on Wall Street for its upcoming mammoth of an initial public offering.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 1, 2012

Jobs vs. Zuckerberg: Two Very Different, Intense Cults

Fortune's new in-depth look at Facebook confirms that Mark Zuckerberg has created the type of intense cult it takes to build a successful tech company, but it's a very different from the one created by the tech industry's other mega-successful cultish leader, Apple's Steve Jobs.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 16, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg Is Dabbling on Pinterest

Mark Zuckerberg, or someone pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg, has made a profile on Pinterest, another sign of the social media site of the moment's ascendance.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 9, 2012

Zuckerberg Secures Himself Lots of Power (and Money)

There was never doubt that Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't make a ton of money after his company went public, but he's doing a particularly good job guaranteeing himself power at a post IPO-ed Facebook.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 7, 2012

Thanks to Facebook's IPO, Zuckerberg Could Pay Up to $2 Billion in Taxes

Want another sign that Facebook's IPO hype has hit a new level? Analysts are already predicting that the tax bill for the Mark Zuckerberg's astronomic windfall will be something they've never seen before.

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By Seth Abramovitch

Feb 4, 2012

Facebook's Superwoman COO Poised to Enter Billionaire Boys' Club

The New York Times has a profile today of Sheryl Sandberg, the second-in-command at Facebook, whose personal fortune could reach $1.6 billion after the company's IPO.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 3, 2012

Facebook's Shameful Billionaire Boys Club

The soon-to-be IPO-ed company has zero excuse for not having a single woman on its board.

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By Dino Grandoni

Feb 2, 2012

Washington Post Chairman Pledges His $46 Million Facebook Windfall to Charity

With Facebook's $5 billion IPO filing yesterday, today's news reports are filled with envy-inducing reports of how wealthy the social network has made a lucky few, including the already wealthy Donald Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 1, 2012

The Newly Public Details of Facebook's Famous Friends

In its near 400-page S-1 filing for an initial public offering, Facebook had to reveal not only details about its revenue figures but also the now well-known names that helped build the social network from a dorm room side project into a global company.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 1, 2012

Internet Delights in Facebook IPO Filing's Juicy Details

Looks like the agonizing, day-long wait for Facebook's IPO was worth it for the Internet, which has gone giddy over all the gems hidden within Facebook's S-1 filing

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 20, 2012

What Doesn't Marty Peretz Know About the TNR Sale?

Despite part-owner Martin Peretz implying that the magazine isn't for sale, The New Republic is in the final stages of negotiations to sell a stake of its magazine -- perhaps the entire thing -- to a new investor.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 18, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg Breaks His Silence on Anti-Piracy Laws

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and one of the world's youngest billionaires, has finally posted his personal thoughts on the anti-piracy bills currently being considered in the House and Senate -- on Facebook, of course.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 5, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Graham's Lopsided Bromance

What the Wall Street Journal calls a "love story" between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Washington Post CEO Donald Graham sounds more parasitic than the average bromance. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 4, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg Takes His Vacation Fantasies to South America

After spending Christmas in Vietnam, Zuckerberg has taken his crew to South America for the New Year and post-New Year's beach time

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 28, 2011

These Are Mark Zuckerberg's Vacation Fantasies

Like anyone taking a vacation, Mark Zuckerberg wanted to escape his every-day (not-so-boring) life. And he did: hopping to Vietnam, a country where Facebook is illegal. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 22, 2011

Zuckerberg Is the Most Reluctant IPO Billionaire

Even though taking Facebook public would turn Mark Zuckerberg's share of the company into a liquid asset worth billions, he still doesn't want an IPO, even as Facebook prepares to go public. So how come he is going along with it? 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 20, 2011

How Facebook Came to Sue Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook's in a legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg--not the founder and CEO of the social network or  Mark Zuckerberg the attorney, but Mark Zuckerberg, but the co-founder of the Likestore.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 19, 2011

The Bison Mark Zuckerberg Killed Is Now Mounted in Facebook's New Offices

We always thought it was a joke when Mark Zuckerberg revealed his love of bison meat, when he introduced the Timeline earlier this year.

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By Adam Martin

Dec 15, 2011

Facebook Has a Giant Pile of Cash on Hand

Facebook is really, really rich. You knew that, though, right? But no. They're way richer than you thought: Projecting a cool billion in profits this year and after raising another billion from Goldman Sachs, Facebook now has $3.5 billion in cash, and no debt.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 7, 2011

Facebook Leaves 99 Percent of Its Users Out of Its Timeline Launch

Facebook has finally decided to start rolling out its Timeline; but don't get too excited, it's only turning the feature on for 0.25 percent of its users.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Private Secret: He's Boring

After a body building blog exposed a Facebook glitch that gave users access to private hidden photos, the best thing the Internet could think to do was post Mark Zuckerberg's super boring private photos. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 29, 2011

Facebook I.P.O. Reported in the Works for 2012

Silicon Valley's favorite guessing game — when will Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg take his company public on Wall Street? — was whipped up into a frenzy by a fresh Wall Street Journal report that targets a mid-2012 initial public offering.

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By Ted Mann

Nov 20, 2011

The 'Freaky Line' and Where Facebook Is Headed

Robert Scoble kicked up a vigorous discussion with a long blog post about what he calls "the freaky line" — the limit beyond which people just don't like sharing information with others on the Internet. The line's moving.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 14, 2011

Salman Rushdie's Internet Identity Problems

Salman Rushdie is having problems getting people to believe that his Internet self is his actual human self.

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 11, 2011

Stat of the Day

Americans Now Only Have Two Close Friends

Life in America has gotten lonelier over the past 25 years, if a new study is to be believed.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 10, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Is Losing His War on Privacy

An impending settlement with the Federal Trade Commission will require all new Facebook privacy settings to be opt-in rather than opt-out and sentences the social network to 20 years of scrutiny from government regulators.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 7, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Is Exactly the Same Person He Used to Be

The surprise announcement that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg would make a rare television appearance  has sent tech bloggers on furious search for meaning buried in the just-released transcript.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 3, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg's Return to Harvard

Harvard's most famous dropout is heading back to campus for his first ever "official visit," and so far, he's keeping his distance from The Crimson

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 3, 2011

The Sadomasochistic Reasoning That Drives the Winklevii

In the December issue, Vanity Fair profiles Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg's fun-to-make-fun-of archnemeses, in an attempt to answer a simple question: Why don't they ever give up?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 2, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Career According to The Crimson

On November 7, Facebook's founder will make his first official visit to his alma mater since he dropped out in 2004, and my-oh-my has he grown.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 27, 2011

The Overripe Fruits of Sean Parker's Labor on Twitter

Sean Parker, the partyboy genius worth an estimated $2.1 billion, wants everyone to back off him about being the 1 percent--he "was broke and couch surfing just a few years ago!"

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By Ray Gustini

Oct 17, 2011

The Smart Set

Quinto Comes Out Quietly; Lopez and Cooper Together Again

Plus: Mark Zuckerberg knows his showtunes

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By Ray Gustini

Oct 14, 2011

The Smart Set

Zuckerberg and Parker's Nightclub Fight; Swank's Apology Tour

Plus: Politico reporter resigns over plagiarism and Roger Ailes saved a man's life

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By Dino Grandoni

Oct 12, 2011

The Winklevoss Twins Racked Up $13 Million in Legal Fees

The bill whittles down their settlement with Facebook down to $52 million

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By Ray Gustini

Sep 22, 2011

What the Tweet?

Olympics Pre-Crime, Jabs, and the Detroit Lions

Plus: The Olympic boxing fix was in

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 22, 2011

A Guide to Facebook's Announcements

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook's updates will allow for a completely new class of social apps

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 22, 2011

Facebook Stole the Celebrity Keynote Cameo from Apple

Andy Samberg posed as Mark Zuckerberg at f8--just like Noah Wyle posed as Steve Jobs in 1999

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By Erik Hayden

Sep 22, 2011

The Wealthy Elite Added More Self-Made Types This Year

A full 70 percent of this year's Forbes 400 rich list are self-made

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 7, 2011

Facebook's Doing Just Fine, Doubles Its Revenue

Competitors like Google+ haven't hurt the social network's earnings, yet

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 1, 2011

Vanity Fair's New Establishment 2011 List Is Short on Women

The numbers aren't even up from last year

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 31, 2011

Facebook Plans on Launching Its Music Service Next Month

Finally Zuck is jumping into the music game

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 25, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs the Best He Can

The Facebook founder tips his hat to the Apple visionary, just as you'd expect he would

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By John Hudson

Aug 16, 2011

Facebook Reveals 'Smoking-Gun' Evidence Against Paul Ceglia

An "authentic contract" between Ceglia and Mark Zuckerberg bears no mention of Facebook

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By Erik Hayden

Aug 5, 2011

Facebook Thinks It Found the 'Smoking Gun' to Disprove Ceglia

But Zuckerberg's lawyers won't say what that is, exactly

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By Elspeth Reeve

Aug 3, 2011

Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook to Start New Firm

Randi Zuckeberg says she's off to "follow my dreams"

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jul 22, 2011

Court Dismisses One More Winklevoss Suit Against Facebook

The twins are not getting any more money out of Mark Zuckerberg

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