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  • May 2008

    • Facebook Readies User-Friendly Makeover

      newser  |  Forbes  |  May 29, 08 2:44 PM CDT

      Facebook Readies User-Friendly Makeover

      Social-networking stalwart Facebook is redesigning its site to allow users easier access to an array of applications that might include search options, Forbes reports, and give advertisers more ways to reach the Facebook community. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at the All Things Digital conference, said the company hoped to work more with search giant Google. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Facebook  • social networking  • online advertising  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Sheryl Sandberg

    • Growing Pains Plenty Evident at Facebook

      newser  |  CNNMoney  |  May 13, 08 4:13 PM CDT

      Growing Pains Plenty Evident at Facebook

      Facebook is seeing a lot of challenges lately, with ads selling at rock-bottom prices, revenue not nearly rivaling MySpace, and third-party developers defecting to OpenSocial networks (MySpace, again). But unlike other companies’ young founders, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t about to step aside. And thanks to his tight control of Facebook's board, he’s not about to be pushed out, either, Fortune reports. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • Mark Zuckerberg  • corporate governance  • ad revenue  • Sheryl Sandberg

    • Zuckerberg Pal Quits as Facebook CTO

      newser  |  CNET  |  May 12, 08 6:46 AM CDT

      Zuckerberg Pal Quits as Facebook CTO

      In a surprise move, Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer is leaving the company, CNET reports. Adam D’Angelo, 23, felt the job no longer suited his skills and interests, sources told BoomTown. But there were also rumors of increasing tension between D’Angelo and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who have been friends since high school. Meanwhile, the company has borrowed $100 million to expand its server base. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Mark Zuckerberg  • computer servers

  • April 2008

    • Facebook Shopping for Grownup Execs

      newser  |  Forbes  |  Apr 28, 08 7:47 PM CDT

      Facebook Shopping for Grownup Execs

      After some high-profile blunders, Facebook is looking for older and more seasoned executives to round out its team. Former Google veep Sheryl Sandberg has already joined up, and the social-networking site is looking for a new general counsel and a vice president of communications and public policy, Forbes reports. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Sheryl Sandberg

    • Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT

      Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

      Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed. More »

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      lawsuit  • Facebook  • Harvard  • settlement  • Mark Zuckerberg  • ConnectU  • Cameron Winklevoss  • Tyler Winklevoss  • Divya Narendra

  • March 2008

    • Audience Disses Zuckerberg SXSWi Interview

      newser  |  CNET  |  Mar 10, 08 1:47 PM CDT

      Audience Disses Zuckerberg SXSWi Interview

      Facebook is changing the world. At least, that was a dominant theme during Mark Zuckerberg’s Sunday keynote at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, during which interviewer Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek drew heckles from an increasingly impatient audience. Zuckerberg talked about Colombian activists and Lebanese youth using Facebook to organize and broaden their minds. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Colombia  • Lebanon  • Mark Zuckerberg  • BusinessWeek

    • Facebook Poaches COO From Google

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 4, 08 3:35 PM CST

      Facebook Poaches COO From Google

      Facebook has hired the Google VP who handles virtually all advertising sales in a bid to ease the hiccups the rapidly expanding networking site is encountering. New COO Sheryl Sandberg, one of Silicon Valley's top female execs, denied that Google's plummeting stock price motivated the move, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • online advertising  • Silicon Valley  • Mark Zuckerberg  • advertising sales  • Sheryl Sandberg

  • February 2008

    • Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances

      newser  |  All Things Digital  |  Feb 1, 08 12:12 PM CST

      Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances

      Mark Zuckerberg got talkative with the Facebook staff yesterday. The boy CEO shared intimate details of the privately-owned company’s finances to an all-staff meeting with an open phone-in line—“It was really unbelievable,” marveled one. The numbers indicated a fall from break-even grace for the company in 2008, when it will have a negative cash flow of $150 million, reports All Things Digital. More »

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      Microsoft  • Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg  • finances

  • December 2007

    • Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform

      newser  |  GigaOm  |  Dec 12, 07 5:37 PM CST

      Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform

      Bebo, the most popular social networking site in Britain, announced today that it will launch an application platform modeled on that of Facebook, GigaOm reports. The launch is the result of a collaboration with its US counterpart, so that developers of Facebook apps will be able to port their work to Bebo with minimal effort. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg  • OpenSocial  • Bebo

    • Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 5, 07 5:07 PM CST

      Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System

      Facebook CEO's apologized today for the company's new advertising system and told users they can disable it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The system, which tracks users' web activities, raised a firestorm of complaints over privacy concerns. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog. More »

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      Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Beacon

    • Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

      newser  |  All Things Digital  |  Dec 2, 07 1:38 PM CST

      Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

      Facebook has been handed a defeat in its attempts to censor the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 , which published confidential court documents relating to founder Mark Zuckerberg's earlier work for a rival site. That's a good thing, says Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal , for whom the attempted injunction was "essentially a legal temper tantrum." More »

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      Facebook  • Harvard  • First Amendment  • Mark Zuckerberg  • ConnectU  • Cameron Winklevoss  • Tyler Winklevoss  • Divya Narendra

  • November 2007

    • Facebook Backs Off Beacon

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 30, 07 6:36 AM CST

      Facebook Backs Off Beacon

      Facebook has watered down its unpopular Beacon ad platform, which "shared" information about users' online shopping habits with everyone in their Facebook network—without their permission. Now, instead of making users opt out every time they make a purchase if they don't want it to be broadcast, Facebook will only broadcast the transaction if user click "ok."  More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • advertising  • online advertising  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Beacon

    • Backlash Forces Facebook to Retool Beacon

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Nov 29, 07 7:54 AM CST

      Backlash Forces Facebook to Retool Beacon

      Facebook execs are pondering changes to the unpopular Beacon advertising platform after massively negative feedback, reports Business Week, and an announcement on "evolving" it could come as soon as today. Users are threatening mutiny over the tool, less than a month old, that tells their friends all about their purchases from other sites—a service many view as an invasion of privacy. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Beacon

    • Facebook Feud Heats Up

      newser  |  02138  |  Nov 27, 07 8:59 AM CST

      Facebook Feud Heats Up

      Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138 . Forensic data experts are searching  Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is lost, that would confirm or deny intellectual property theft. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • Harvard  • Mark Zuckerberg

  • October 2007

    • Facebook Seeks Hedge Fund Cash After Microsoft Deal

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 26, 07 1:12 AM CDT

      Facebook Seeks Hedge Fund Cash After Microsoft Deal

      After raising $240 million from Microsoft, the social networking site Facebook expects to raise a further $260 million from hedge funds and private-equity investors, according to the Wall Street Journal . The cash will be used to fund an international expansion and a new ad revenue system. The investment would put the value of Facebook at $15 billion. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • Facebook  • social networking  • Mark Zuckerberg  • ad revenue

    • Facebook May Announce Deal Results Tuesday

      newser  |  Valleywag  |  Oct 21, 07 1:43 PM CDT

      Facebook May Announce Deal Results Tuesday

      The result of the bidding war between tech giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo as to who will own a large investment stake in the social networking site Facebook is still not clear, but an answer may be forthcoming: an all-hands meeting for the young company has been called for Tuesday, meaning the company may be on the verge of disclosure, reports the gossip site Valleywag. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg

    • Facebook Founder's No to IPO

      newser  |  CNET  |  Oct 18, 07 12:21 AM CDT

      Facebook Founder's No to IPO

      Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has quashed speculation over a possible initial public offering. Speaking to an overspill audience at the Web 2.0 conference, held in a ballroom of the ornate Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Zuckerberg said Facebook, the popular internet social network, would not be selling shares on Wall Street anytime soon. More »

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      Facebook  • IPO  • Web 2.0  • Mark Zuckerberg

    • Facebook Users Hook Up—With Fellow Burmese Monk Backers

      newser  |  Wired  |  Oct 5, 07 1:50 PM CDT

      Facebook Users Hook Up&mdash;With Fellow Burmese Monk Backers

      Mammoth networking site Facebook is triggering a massive mobilization of protesters around the world who will hit the streets this weekend in support of the Burmese monks, Wired writes. Nearly 300,000 people have joined the Facebook group "Support the Monks' Protest" since a story on the movement broke last week,  and thousands of those are expected to turn out for marches tomorrow in cities from Taipei to Vienna. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Burma  • protests  • Myanmar  • Mark Zuckerberg  • monks

    • Facebook to Jump to Real-World Bookshelves

      newser  |  Harvard Crimson  |  Oct 1, 07 4:26 PM CDT

      Facebook to Jump to Real-World Bookshelves

      The kudzu of the internet will spread beyond the virtual world to bookstore shelves next year with the publication of The Facebook Book, a satirical look at the social-networking phenomenon. The authors, both recent Harvard grads, say they plan a "fictional and fanciful" take on Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild, the Crimson reports. More »

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      Facebook  • Harvard  • Mark Zuckerberg

  • August 2007

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