How to Serve a Subpoena to Mark Zuckerberg

(NEWSER) - Mark Zuckerberg has made mistakes in the past 6 weeks “that would have led to any normal CEO's firing,” Owen Thomas writes for Gawker, and the Facebook CEO's case should be no different. His three strikes: a privacy-shredding “terms of service disaster,” an “awful redesign,” and the “disgraceful, petty ouster” of a veteran manager. If the board is smart—and resourceful—it will dump the site’s founder. More»

As of yesterday, he was no longer one of world's 40 richest

(NEWSER) - As of yesterday, Priscilla Chan was no longer married to one of the world's 40 richest people. Bloomberg reports that Facebook's much ballyhooed drop below the $30-a-share mark yesterday caused Mark Zuckerberg to drop from the list. With the stock closing at $28.84, his fortune decreased from $16.2 billion on Friday to $14.7 billion yesterday. That boots him off of Bloomberg's daily Billionaires Index, and behind Luis Carlos Sarmiento, the richest man in Colombia. More»

Mark Zuckerberg should stick with software: Dan Costa

(NEWSER) - Facebook has enough problems these days, from that lackluster IPO to rumors that Mark Zuckerberg is a lousy honeymoon tipper . And now comes yet another report that Facebook is trying to make a smartphone ? At PC Magazine , Dan Costa has some advice: Don't do it. Facebook does indeed have weak mobile offerings, but the company should fix this problem with better software—its strong suit—not hardware. More»

He avoids Facebook for privacy reasons

(NEWSER) - Remember the scene in The Social Network where Eduardo Saverin flips out at Mark Zuckerbeg, who has sneakily shrunk his share of the company? Well Saverin says it was all "Hollywood fantasy." The Facebook co-founder gave a rare interview with the Brazilian magazine Veja , in which he insists he has "only good things to say about Mark, there are no hard feelings between us," according to a translation quoted in Forbes . "He was a visionary." More»

Facebook chief appears with wife Priscilla Chan in documentary

(AP) - Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan. The documentary by CCTV was part of a series on Chinese police and high-tech crime-solving methods. A few seconds of footage showing Zuckerberg and Chan walking behind two police officers were shown included in a brief clip posted online by the Hebei province satellite station. More»