April 11 at 12:57 p.m.
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By Reuters
Tyler Winkelvoss, left, and his identical twin brother Cameron. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times)
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cannot back out of a settlement with giant social networking firm Facebook over claims that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday.
The saga of the Winklevoss twins and Zuckerberg became silver screen lore with the release of the film “The Social Network” last year. It has long been a legal battle as well. Get the full story »
Jan. 26 at 10:26 a.m.
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By CNN
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page was hacked Tuesday — a high-profile breach on a site that constantly faces scrutiny about its handling of its members’ private data.
The message that appeared on Zuckerberg’s page under his name read: “Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ’social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011″ Get the full story »
Jan. 11 at 1:52 p.m.
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By Reuters
Cameron (left) and Tyler Winklevoss. (Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images)
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss found a skeptical audience Tuesday as they tried to persuade a U.S. appeals court to let them out of a $65 million settlement over the founding of online social network Facebook.
The saga of the Winklevoss twins and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg became silver screen lore with the film “The Social Network” last year. It has long been a legal battle as well. Get the full story »
Dec. 15, 2010 at 6:58 a.m.
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By CNN
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AP/Paul Sakuma)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year. Rick Stengel, the magazine’s managing editor, made the announcement Wednesday on NBC’s “Today“ show.
Zuckerberg created the widely popular and influential social networking site, which reflects a major transformation in the way people communicate and do business.
“Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70 percent of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.“ Get the full story »
Dec. 9, 2010 at 8:29 a.m.
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Joe and Rika Mansueto at their home in Chicago on May 9, 2008. (Handout)
Another 17 U.S. billionaires, including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as well as Morningstar’s Joe Mansueto, have pledged to give away at least half their fortunes in a philanthropic campaign led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
A total of 57 billionaires now have joined The Giving Pledge, which was launched by Microsoft founder Gates and investor Buffett in June. The campaign announced the new pledges in a statement late Wednesday.
Gates, his wife Melinda, and Buffett have asked U.S. billionaires to give away at least half their wealth during their lifetime or after their death, and to publicly state their intention with a letter explaining their decision. Get the full story »
Nov. 15, 2010 at 3:09 p.m.
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By McClatchy Tribune Newspapers
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the 350 million active users daily of Facebook messaging in San Francisco, Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
In a bid to become the junction box for people’s digital communications, Facebook announced Monday it plans to launch a new communication platform intended to unify e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging and the social network’s existing message system through a single “social in-box.”
While each of the social network’s more than 500 million users will have the chance to get an @facebook.com e-mail address as the new service gradually rolls out to members in coming months, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the goal was not to create the world’s largest e-mail network, but to merge external e-mail, text messaging, instant messages and Facebook’s existing internal messaging service into a new kind of seamless communication system. Get the full story »
Nov. 12, 2010 at 3:54 p.m.
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By Reuters
Facebook will unveil changes to its messaging system Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The changes to the messaging service will be “across the board,” the person said, which could escalate the competition between the world’s No. 1 Internet social networking site and Google Inc . Get the full story »
Oct. 6, 2010 at 1:43 p.m.
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By Associated Press
Facebook is introducing tools that will make it easier for people to separate their online friendships into groups and copy all the personal information they have posted on the Web site.
The new features will start rolling out to Facebook’s more than 500 million worldwide users Wednesday. Get the full story »
Aug. 31, 2010 at 1:01 p.m.
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By Reuters
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking site is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life.
Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, who claims an 84 percent stake in the privately held company, believed to be worth several billion dollars. Get the full story »
Aug. 27, 2010 at 11:42 a.m.
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By CNN
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Facebook, which has gone after sites with the word “book” in their names, is also trying to trademark the word “face,” according to court documents.
But the social networking site has met with a familiar foe. As TechCrunch first reported, Aaron Greenspan has asked for an extension of time to file an opposition to Facebook’s attempt. Greenspan is the president and CEO of Think Computer, the developer of a mobile payments app called FaceCash.
Greenspan, also a former Harvard classmate of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, claimed he had a hand in developing the social networking giant. The case was settled last year. Get the full story »
