M&A - Valuation. Facebook hiring. President Obama Visits Facebook Headquarters [PHOTOS] President Barack Obama discussed the economy, technology, innovation and more during a packed town hall Wednesday at Facebook headquarters. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first question to Obama focused on the economy and how the U.S. will turn things around while bringing down the deficit. He discussed rolling back tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and cutting the budget to reduce the deficit. "We have a long-term problem with Medicare and Medicaid," Obama noted, stating that "20% of the patients account for 80% of the cost" of most hospitals. Most of the time though, Obama addressed questions from the audience, as well as user-submitted questions collected via the web. Many of the questions came from Facebook employees. Another question focused on how the government would slow the rise of health care costs.
Facebook Celebrates Like Button’s 1st Birthday - TNW Facebook. One year ago today the Facebook Like button sprang into existence. Introduced at the f8 conference, the Like button is now one of Facebook’s most popular features. A cultural icon that has an instantly recognizable look and feel. Inside Facebook reports that in that time the Like button has been added to most of the worlds most popular sites including the top sports, news and entertainment sites on the net. The group using the Like button also includes 18 of the top 25 U.S. retail sites according to Comscore.
A product manager for the Like button, Austin Haugen, told IF that their goal for the upcoming year was to experiment with how the design of the button and how it showed users what it would put in their stream affected the clickthrough rate of the Open Graph plugin. Some other impressive stats of the plugin include the fact that 10,000 websites integrate with Facebook every day. Origines de Facebook : Zuckerberg gagne contre les jumeaux - High-Tech. Paul Ceglia vs. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Here's the complaint and it's a good read.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg won a legal victory over Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who were appealing to increase a $65 million settlement, and now there's another lawsuit on the horizon. Paul Ceglia now claims he deserves 50 percent of Facebook because he fronted Zuckerberg $1,000 to launch the site while at Harvard. When Facebook does file for an initial public offering one of the risk factors will read like this: Everyone that has bought Mark Zuckerberg a cup of coffee at Harvard is now suing for a stake in the company. Ceglia filed an amended complaint (PDF) in a federal court in Buffalo making his case vs. Zuckerberg. The most notable part of the complaint is that Ceglia produces a bevy of emails from 2003 that look legit. If Ceglia was completely making this complaint up he probably has a movie script in him. In the emails, Ceglia had Zuckerberg almost agreeing to give away 80 percent of The Face Book.
On Feb. 3, Ceglia responded: Ceglia goes off: The emails go on. Cegliavszuck. La bourde qui révèle les secrets de Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, fondateur de Facebook, à Davos le 30 janvier (Pascal Lauener/Reuters) Le gag ne fait pas rire Facebook. Une erreur de débutant en informatique a brisé un des secrets les mieux gardés du web : le réseau aux 150 millions d’utilisateurs ne vaudrait que 3,7 milliards de dollars. En 2007, il affirmait en valoir quatre fois plus.
Que s’est-il passé ? Le juge James Ware, du tribunal de San Jose, en Californie, se souviendra longtemps de cette audience du 23 juin 2008. Une audience à huis clos Enjeu de l’audience : le montant que Facebook doit verser pour mettre fin aux poursuites. Mais combien valent ces actions ? ConnectU peut donc se réjouir. Dès le début de l’audience, les deux parties tombent d’accord : pas question que les chiffres confidentiels dont ils discuteront sortent de la salle. Un simple copier-coller révèle tout Le compte-rendu est disponible en ligne. Jeudi, l’agence Associated Press a repéré le document et déjoué cette astuce ridicule. Diary of Facebook [video] FB office... + Behind The Scenes At Facebook [Video] - TNW Facebook. Facebook Opens New Office In Amsterdam. World’s Billionaires 2011: Facebook has six. Forbes has released the 25th edition of its rich-beyond-belief list. The World's Billionaires 2011 broke two records: total number of members (1,210) and combined wealth ($4.5 trillion).
Facebook helped. Six of the company's founders and investors made the annual list this year; that's one billionaire for each of Facebook's 100 million users. Four of them only just became billionaires, according to Forbes. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved from number 212 with an estimated worth of $4 billion in 2010 to number 52 with a wealth of $13.5 billion. Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz ($2.7 billion) and Eduardo Saverin ($1.6 billion) joined the ranks of the richest. 26-year-old Moskovitz is actually the youngest billionaire on the Forbes list, just 8 days younger than the Facebook CEO. Facebook investors Sean Parker ($1.6 billion) and Yuri Milner ($1.0 billion) also joined up this year. PayPal Founder: Facebook Could Become the Most Valuable Company in the World.
Max Levchin — Google VP of engineering and founder of PayPal and Slide — argues that Facebook will become a serious contender to become one of the more valuable companies in the world if it can "successfully replace core messaging. " At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Levchin and Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley answered questions about "game-changing technology. " During their fireside chat, the moderator raised the question of Facebook's unprecedented growth and its impact. "Facebook has all but successfully monopolized White Pages," Levchin said, explaining that when you want to find and connect with someone, you go to Facebook. Unlike the White Pages though, Facebook also has information on a person's interests, likes and social graph. That alone has turned Facebook into a $50 billion company. However, Levchin says that that becoming the repository for personal information could result "in Facebook successfully replacing core messaging.
" 10 Fascinating Facebook Facts. Facebook's astronomic rise, staggeringly large user-base, and world's youngest self-made billionaire CEO make it one of the most fascinating companies around today. While everyone knows the basics about the service's Harvard dorm room origins, we've delved a little deeper to find out more interesting snippets of info. Here are 10 facts you might not know about Facebook, so read on and let us know your favorites in the comments box below. 1. Al Pacino's Face Was on the Original Facebook Homepage Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook's front page used to feature a man's face partly obscured behind a cloud of binary code.
Dubbed the "Facebook guy," it was not known who the mystery man was — until recently. 2. You won't find this in the official Facebook timeline, but one of Facebook's early add-ons was a peer-to-peer, or more technically friend-to-friend, file sharing service called Wirehog, developed alongside Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and three others. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Facebook Will Celebrate 500 Million Users Next Week. Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user milestone sometime this coming week. To celebrate, it'll launch "Facebook Stories," a visual memorial to all the ways the social network has changed people's lives.All Things Digital's BoomTown blog uncovered the details in an interview with Facebook marketing guru Randi Zuckerberg last week.
She said that while previous announcements of this nature have been about the numbers, this time the company wants it to be all about the users. That'd be empty PR-speak on its own, but she's talking about a real initiative: Facebook Stories will be a website within Facebook that'll sort actual, submitted user stories by location and theme. Theme examples given included "finding love" and "natural disasters. " Each story will be limited to the same number of characters a Facebook status caps out at: 420. Mark Zuckerberg’s Most Valuable Friend. How 'The Social Network' Saved Mark Zuckerberg - Derek Thompson - Culture. The Oscar-nominated movie was supposed to turn Facebook's CEO into a villain. So how did 2010 turn Mark Zuckerberg into a hero? When the first snippets of The Social Network trickled out in previews and movie blogs last year, the film looked like a takedown of Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
The poster image said it all--a smoldering, triangle-jawed Jesse Eisenberg stared coldly ahead behind oversized font declaring, You Don't Get to 500 Million Friends Without Making a Few Enemies. The film lived up to the ominous poster, villainizing Zuckerberg as an ambitious and unfeeling genius with no more emotional depth than the computer programs he spent his life coding. Well, she was right about the successful part. What happened? In 2010, Facebook got off to an inauspicious start. But a funny thing happened on the way to the cineplex. The Social Network might have slain a less savvy wunderkind. Did The Social Network save Mark Zuckerberg? Credits: Columbia Pictures.