Stories tagged with Facebook
Facebook chooses former aide to Alberto Gonzales as top lawyer
By Carol Eisenberg | October 1, 2008 at 1:18pm | 0
Some might feel a little paranoid about the latest development at Facebook.
Aaron Sorkin plans Facebook, the movie
By Emily Morgan | August 30, 2008 at 12:31pm | 1
More than 100 million people use Facebook, but until recently, Aaron Sorkin was not one of them.
RNC creates BarackBook.com to showcase Obama’s ‘friends’
By John Decker | August 20, 2008 at 4:53pm | 0
In an effort to highlight some of Barack Obama’s more controversial associations, the Republican National Committee has created a Facebook spoof site called BarackBook.com.
Facebook co-founder helps Obama build support on the web
By A. James Memmott | July 10, 2008 at 10:15am | 0
Thanks to a Facebook founding friend, Barack Obama now has well over one million Facebook supporters.
Rolling Stone replows old ground on Zuckerberg, Facebook
By Gary Jacobson | June 18, 2008 at 4:20pm | 0
Don’t bother reading the Rolling Stone story (dated June 26) on Mark Zuckerberg and “The Battle for Facebook.” It has been done before. And better.
Audience a-Twitter during Zuckerberg interview
By Emily Morgan | March 11, 2008 at 11:22am | 0
Sarah Lacy reports on technology for Business Week, but on Sunday, technology was her worst enemy.
As she interviewed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival, the audience was reporting on her questions and style by using Twitter, and their reviews weren’t good.
Yahoo-Maven deal opens another path for Microsoft
By Laurie Bennett | February 13, 2008 at 11:20am | 0
Being pursued by Microsoft hasn’t deterred Yahoo from its own pursuits of smaller fry.
Yahoo announced yesterday that it had paid $160 million for Maven Networks, a firm that sells video-management systems for online advertising. Maven’s customers include such major media outfits as Gannett, Scripps and Fox News.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg unbound
By Gary Jacobson | December 3, 2007 at 11:00am | 0
Writing the first draft of history is always perilous.
In September 2004, in a story about a then new lawsuit that accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for Facebook from fellow Harvard students, The Boston Globe wrote: “There isn’t much money at stake.”
Oops.
Today Facebook is valued on paper at $15 billion or so, making Zuckerberg’s 20 percent stake worth $3 billion. The 23-year-old is well on his way to becoming the second richest Harvard dropout in history, behind Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft.
Google, Facebook battle for friends
By Laurie Bennett | October 31, 2007 at 9:30am | 0
Despite losing to Microsoft in its bid for a piece of Facebook, Google isn’t giving up on social networks.
The behemoth of search is partnering with other tech companies and social networks to develop a competing approach called OpenSocial. The open-source technology will enable developers to write applications that can be used on many sites, including partners in the project, such as LinkedInand Friendster.
Colbert vote skyrockets
By Emily Morgan | October 27, 2007 at 11:27am | 0
He claims he IS America in the title of his best-seller, I Am America (And So Can You!). So why is it so surprising that Stephen Colbert has announced he’s running for president?
For starters, Colbert is running only in South Carolina. And he’s a comedian.
Supreme Court clerks reap big signing bonuses
By A. James Memmott | October 4, 2007 at 12:30pm | 0
As baseball managers know, life isn’t always fair.
You put the team together, you make the key decisions, and the people who work for you make the big bucks.
The analogy isn’t exact, but something like that is happening at the U.S. Supreme Court, which opened its 2007-08 term on Monday.
The nine justices make the decisions. And for this they get paid fairly well, $212,000 for Chief Justice John Roberts, $203,000 for the eight associate justices.
