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- Facebook: "We're cash-flow positive"
- Buried in the fourth paragraph of a blog post from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today was the news that really mattered - the company is making money. In that post, Zuckerberg writes: We're also succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way. Earlier this year, we said we expected...
- Tags: Facebook, Mobile, Mark Zuckerberg, Advertising & Promotion, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor
- updated: Facebook said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies DST, a Russian investment group. The deal gives values Facebook at $10 billion. In a statement, Facebook noted the following: Digital Sky gets preferred stock for a 1.96 percent stake...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Investor, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?
- For the record, I've never officially met Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. But I've met guys who are probably like him. Young. Smart. Rich. Full of great ideas. And, yeah, probably a little bit full of himself, too. There's a lot of speculation about what's...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Blogger Nicholas Carlson, Blogging, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich list
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the so-called social utility Facebook, has made number 321 of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, with a personal wealth of $1.5 billion. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Facebook, Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect
- At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Scaling fast-growing Facebook
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, dan farber, facebook, social network, Mark Zuckerberg
- Videos 2008-06-23
- Facebook: Revolution, Weed and Philanthropy
- At the risk of endlessly re boiling the cabbage on the now infamous Sarah Lacy interview of Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, it is worth highlighting some pretty important things he had to say on Facebook & corporate philanthropy before the reporter became the bigger part of the story. The flippant style of interview...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0, Government, Homeland Security, Strategy, Internet, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Daniel Terdiman's scathing review of journalist Sarah Lacy at the SXSW keynote of Mark Zuckerberg this weekend leads to this intriguing question. Are celebrity and open source contradictory? (Here's a clip.) It's true that open source has some well-known names. Eric Raymond. Linus Torvalds....
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- The Facebook SXSW keynote debacle: What would you have asked?
- It's not too often that a keynote at a major conference turns into a total train wreck. But that's what happened with the Mark Zuckerberg keynote at SXSW where he was interviewed by BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy. News.com's Daniel Terdiman has the best account of Zuckerberg keynote and...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefullyWhat planet are these pundits from?Facebook shouldn't have ads? That's like trying to say a profit is evil in today's economy. Without accepting a few hundred million investment from Microsoft and every other sideline venture Facebook is involved in, they would be bankrupt, washed out...
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- MySpace: 179 million times more open than Facebook
- Tom Anderson has 179,564,767 MySpace friends, and I can see them all via his open profile at the number one by far social nework (or social utility, as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg insists) that Anderson co-founded and later sold to News Corp.What about Facebook founder, and still owner, Zuckerberg?Can I get to know him at...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- YouTube, Facebook: Is billion dollar Internet land rush fools' gold?
- The relatively calm “back to serious business” September has gotten a jolt of good old fashioned Internet frenzy with two billion dollar acquisition “rumors”: New York Post ups its own previous rumored $1 billion valuation for YouTube by 50% to $1.5 billion and The Wall Street Journal signals a replay...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Mark Zuckerberg
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
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- News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
- A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval PDF by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings. The proposal calls...
- Tags: Facebook, Online Privacy, Settlement, Class Action, Beacon, Class Action Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Facebook to acquire FriendFeed
- Facebook said today that it will acquire FriendFeed for an undisclosed amount. As part of the agreement, all 12 employees will join Facebook and the company's founders will take on senior roles in Facebook's engineering and product teams. Techmeme In a statement, FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit said:...
- Tags: Facebook, FriendFeed, Team Management, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted to
- Facebook will likely bring in "billions of dollars in revenue" in five years time and could even do $1 billion in revenue this year if it really pushed itself, board member Marc Andreessen told Reuters. Techmeme Instead, it's more important for Facebook - and even micro-blogging site...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO
- Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...
- Tags: Facebook, Genentech Inc., CFO, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, IPO, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Services, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- MySpace names Facebook VP Van Natta as CEO
- News Corporation today announced the appointment of Owen Van Natta to the role of MySpace Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Van Natta will be based in Los Angeles and report directly to Jonathan Miller, News Corporation’s CEO of Digital Media and Chief Digital Officer. ...
- Tags: Facebook, News Corp., MySpace, CEO, Corporate Governance, Investment, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
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