As social-networking giant Facebook prepares to go public, the company continues to attract criticism over its corporate governance structure, which is set up to give founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg iron-clad control over its …
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Zuckerberg Holiday Vacation Highlights Vietnam’s Unofficial Facebook Status
With Mark Zuckerberg spending Christmas in Vietnam, the opportunity for some snark about the Facebook founder’s apparently ironic choice of destination was not lost. The U.K.’s Daily Mail promptly proclaimed: “Status update: …
The Legal Case You’ve Been Waiting For? Mark Zuckerberg Vs. Mark Zuckerberg
Here’s one you probably didn’t see coming: Facebook has set its legal hounds on Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder could be forgiven for having a slight identity crisis now that Facebook has been forced to send a cease and …
Facebook Named Best Tech Company to Work For
Facebook isn’t just America’s favorite social network, it’s also America’s favorite tech company to work for, according to a new study. The company ranked third overall on Glassdoor’s annual Best Places to Work survey, based upon …
Zuck, Your Privacy’s Showing
Ah, to be the public face of a wildly successful tech company. Some of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos have been made public thanks to a brief security glitch on the site.
There are some real doozies too: One …
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Facebook and Privacy: Imperfect Together
So help me, I like Mark Zuckerberg. I’m glad he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm back in early 2004 and has devoted himself to it ever since. The world, and my life, are richer for it.
Facebook On Track for an IPO Next Year?
And just like that, everyone’s Newsfeed was cluttered with murmurings about how they need to buy Facebook stock now. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is currently targeting its initial public offering launch for
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Facebook Boston? Zuckerberg Recruits Harvard, MIT Students
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater—Harvard—today on a recruiting swing for the world’s most popular social network. He made another trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. I caught the (very) brief press conference at MIT, where Zuckerberg only had time to answer a few questions.
The …
If Zuck Had a Time Machine, Facebook May Have Stayed in Boston
In an interview with Startup School’s Jessica Livingston this weekend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that had he known what he knows now, he may have kept Facebook in Boston instead of moving out to Silicon Valley. The entire interview can be found here—the part with Zuckerberg starts near the 43-minute mark, and the …
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Please, Google+ and Twitter, Don’t Copy the New Facebook
For my Technologizer column on TIME.com this week, I wrote about the controversy over Google+’s insistence that members sign up with their “common names,” a requirement that displeases people who wish to be able to maintain a secondary identity online (as well as folks who have gotten caught in the crossfire, such as ones who Google has …
Will Facebook Music Actually Work?
Facebook’s music integration is finally here, and it’s unlike any sort of music sharing we’ve seen before as part of the Open Graph. Ostensibly you’ll be able to keep track of what your friends are listening to via Facebook’s new real-time Ticker, which Zuck promises will deliver updates in—his actual words—“real-time …
Facebook Introduces ‘Timeline’: The ‘Story’ of Your Life
At today’s Facebook f8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce the biggest overhaul to the social network we’ve seen since 2008: “Timeline,” a new kind of profile.
Zuckerberg introduced the new Facebook feature as “all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.” Previously your old information …