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Meet Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg, The Facebook Founder’s New Wife

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Meet Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg, The Facebook Founder’s New Wife


Posted by on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 2:51 pm.

Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg sprung into the spotlight on Saturday when it was revealed she had married longtime boyfriend Mark Zuckerberg — the Facebook founder & CEO (and billionaire after the Facebook IPO). The wedding had been planned for months and the couple was waiting for Chan to finish medical school, but the date of the [...]

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Tour Mark Zuckerberg’s $7 Million New Home

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Tour Mark Zuckerberg’s $7 Million New Home


Posted by on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 9:35 am.

Flashback post, in celebration of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg marrying Priscilla Chan. Take a tour of Facebook CEO’s Mark Zuckerberg new home in Palo Alto. Just days before his 27th birthday, the Zuck dropped $7 million on the home, which includes a saltwater pool, glassed in sunroom, outside fireplace, 5 bedrooms and 5 baths. The house [...]

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The official Facebook Luxury page

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The official Facebook Luxury page


Posted by on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 8:00 am.

Update: We have just launched the new Facebook Timeline page for Luxury. Take a look at: http://www.facebook.com/Luxury. Come join us! Find and share the good things in life. Have a favorite brand, story, picture or travel story? Share with the luxury community on Facebook. We have over 20K fans of Luxury on Facebook — join [...]

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Topas Ecolodge, Sapa, Vietnam

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Topas Ecolodge, Sapa, Vietnam


Posted by on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 7:01 am.

Flashback post, in celebration of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg marrying Priscilla Chan. Here’s a look back at their Christmas vacation to Vietnam: From Jan 3rd, 2011: As we reported previously in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Luxury Vacation in Vietnam: “Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan spent Christmas Eve in the popular tourist destination Ha Long [...]

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan


Posted by on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at 8:19 pm.

Facebook founder and CEO, an overnight billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg has married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. The day after Facebook‘s successful IPO, the couple have made it official. Mark has, indeed, put a ring on it. What a wonderful week for the Harvard drop-out… Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla tied the knot at a small ceremony [...]

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Graffiti Artist David Choe, Facebook Millionaire

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Graffiti Artist David Choe, Facebook Millionaire


Posted by on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 8:45 am.

Meet the unlikely Facebook millionaire. In 2005, graffiti artist David Choe was hired to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by then Facebook’s president Sean Parker. As pay, Parker offered the San Jose artist a choice between cash in the “thousands of dollars,” or the equivalent in stock. [...]

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Tour Facebook’s New Office By Studio O+A

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Tour Facebook’s New Office By Studio O+A


Posted by on Saturday, May 12th, 2012 at 7:50 am.

Employees of Facebook recently moved into their new home at the Stanford Research Park. Prior to that, workers for the social networking site were scattered throughout 10 locations around the city of Palo Alto. Studio O+A, a San Francisco based interior design firm which grew out of the dot-com boom worked with Facebook on the [...]

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Facebook IPO To Be Huge

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Facebook IPO To Be Huge


Posted by on Monday, May 7th, 2012 at 6:54 am.

Despite almost certain IPO success, Facebook has to start making money from mobile phone advertising soon

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How LVMH is Managing Its Brands on Facebook

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How LVMH is Managing Its Brands on Facebook


Posted by on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 3:29 pm.

Curious of the social media strategies of LVMH? The Paris luxury colgolmorate (Louis Vuitton, Dom Pérignon, Marc Jacobs) shares their Facebook strategies with the WSJ: One of the ways it manages those brands is through a carefully managed social media campaign, primarily focused on Facebook pages. Thomas Romieu, group digital director for LVMH, told CIO [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: Steve Jobs, girlfriend inspired social organ donor tool

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Mark Zuckerberg: Steve Jobs, girlfriend inspired social organ donor tool


Posted by on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 8:41 am.

Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants. And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: You know what’s cool? A billion organ donors

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Mark Zuckerberg: You know what’s cool? A billion organ donors


Posted by on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 1:55 am.

Facebook CEO announces his social network site will now encourage its users to register to donate – and tell a friend

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Google’s Sergey Brin Warns Against Facebook and Apple

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Google’s Sergey Brin Warns Against Facebook and Apple


Posted by on Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 7:48 am.

Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'

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How Facebook Has Destroyed the Word Friend

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Has Facebook Destroyed the Word ‘Friend’?


Posted by on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at 10:10 am.

It is time for us to take back the word ‘friend’ from Facebook. Lonely genius Mark Zuckerberg didn’t have any friends, so he needed to create a system, a network, to obtain false friendships. He smartly baked the word “friend” into the DNA of Facebook – where it has become a generic label, a verb. [...]

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Blows Off Pre-IPO Meeting With Wall Street

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Blows Off Pre-IPO Meeting With Wall Street


Posted by on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at 8:00 am.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg blew off a pre-IPO meeting with Wall Street analysts and bankers at the social network’s headquarters on Monday and does not plan to have a hands-on role in selling the stock listing to analysts and others, the Wall Street Journal reported. CFO David Ebersman said Zuck would focus his time on [...]

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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Buy buys New Republic

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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Buy buys New Republic


Posted by on Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 10:15 am.

Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former online strategist for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, has purchased a majority stake in The New Republic, the magazine said on Friday. Hughes, 28, will become publisher and editor-in-chief of the nearly 100-year old magazine which covers American politics. – via Reuters

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Social media transforming people’s relationship to food

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Social media transforming people’s relationship to food


Posted by on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 7:29 am.

Instead of calling up mom for tips on how to cook the perfect roast chicken, Americans are turning more and more to social media sources like Twitter and Facebook, redefining the way people cook, plan their meals and eat. That’s the overarching finding of a new report released February 27, which found that social and [...]

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Bono to be a Facebook billionaire

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Bono, Facebook billionaire


Posted by on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 7:35 pm.

U2 rocker bono is about to make $1 billion, thanks to his 2009 investment in Facebook. Bono’s investment company Elevation Partners bought $210 million worth of shares in the social networking site almost two years ago. This week, the site has been valued at $65 billion, meaning that Bono and his company’s share of the [...]

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO


Posted by on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 2:08 pm.

After arriving from rival Google in 2008, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s second-in-command has helped grow its 70 million user base into over 750 million active “friends” today, representing about 11% of the world’s population. The Harvard MBA served as chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton, and managed Google’s online global [...]

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How to Play the Facebook IPO

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How to Play the Facebook IPO


Posted by on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 10:27 am.

SmartMoney.com’s Jack Hough is on WSJ’s Mean Street with strategies for investors looking to jump into the Facebook IPO: What could go wrong on Facebook’s march to one of the biggest IPOs in history? WSJ’s Shira Ovide discusses on Digits: Lastly, Forbes editors on what you need to know about the social networking giant’s bottom [...]

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Social Media More Addictive Than Alcohol

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Social Media More Addictive Than Alcohol


Posted by on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 8:10 am.

People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers

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Facebook’s quietly confident IPO

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Facebook’s quietly confident IPO


Posted by on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 7:49 pm.

Mark Zuckerberg is likely to stay tight-lipped about Facebook's stock market flotation – unlike other Silicon Valley CEOs recently

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Facebook IPO Coming Next Week

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Facebook IPO Coming Next Week


Posted by on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 6:41 pm.

The Facebook IPO is upon us… Want to get in and acquire Facebook stock? Here’s the details of the Facebook IPO, which will be filed next week. Facebook — which will likely raise up to $10 billion in its offering – — is on track to be the largest Internet I.P.O. on record, besting Google’s [...]

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Google Unveils Search, plus Your World

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Google goes social and unveils ‘Search, plus Your World’


Posted by on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 11:09 am.

Google + has just spilled over to Google search results. Launched today, Google’s new search option integrates results pulled from Google+ social network connections into Google search queries, a major step into providing relevant social content into the company’s main search product. As the Official Google blog adds: We’re transforming Google into a search engine [...]

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Facebook Cards takes networking back offline

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Facebook Cards takes networking back offline


Posted by on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 10:22 am.

Social network's users can now create personalised business cards based on images and posts from their profile's timeline

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Luxury Vacation in Vietnam

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Luxury Vacation in Vietnam


Posted by on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 3:42 pm.

Vietnam doesn’t have Facebook, but they do have Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He’s vacationing in the communist country, where the social-networking site is blocked by local Communist authorities. Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan spent Christmas Eve in the popular tourist destination Ha Long Bay, local official Trinh Dang Thanh says. The couple spent Christmas [...]

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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs

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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs


Posted by on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 6:37 am.

The dynamic and brilliant Sean Parker (Napster founder, founding Facebook President, and Director at Spotify), posted a compelling piece on his Facebook page on his hero Steve Jobs. It is a terrific read, pasted in full below: Steve Jobs: Innovator, Iconoclast, and American Hero by Sean Parker Today is an incredibly sad day for me, [...]

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Facebook games firm Zynga to raise $1bn from IPO

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Facebook games firm Zynga to raise $1bn from IPO


Posted by on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 7:20 am.

Producer of Farmville and Mafia Wars will become third-largest US gaming firm at $7bn market cap if it succeeds

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The Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011

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The Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011


Posted by on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 3:04 pm.

Facebook recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011. Below, we proudly present the most shared articles on Facebook for the year:   [...]

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Facebook IPO Coming in 2012

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Facebook IPO Coming in 2012


Posted by on Monday, November 28th, 2011 at 8:50 am.

It’s official, the Facebook IPO is going to be huge — and will occur between April 2012 to June 2012. As the valuation could exceed $100 billion, the IPO will make Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a kajillionaire. Here’s the WSJ for more: The social networking firm is now targeting a time frame of April 2012 [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Steve Jobs on Charlie Rose

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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Steve Jobs on Charlie Rose


Posted by on Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 8:05 pm.

Set to air tonight on PBS’s Charlie Rose, Facebook CEO discusses the influence of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. While is was reported that Apple and Facebook were battling, notoriously over Ping in the iTunes store, and deep Twitter integration with iOS5, the Zuck sets the record straight. There were no issues with Apple, [...]

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg on Charlie Rose

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg on Charlie Rose


Posted by on Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 1:26 pm.

Tonight, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will appear together in a rare joint interview on the PBS Show Charlie Rose tonight. Hosted, of course, by Charlie Rose, the show will discuss upcoming Facebook features, from the Timeline redesign to new privacy settings. The high profile joint interview of Zuckerberg and Sandberg will [...]

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