Stories tagged with Mark Zuckerberg
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.
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.
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.
Zuckerberg fights lawsuit over Facebook idea
By Muckety | July 22, 2007 at 8:25am | 0
Mark Zuckerberg has spent much of his time fending off potential buyers of his company, Facebook. Next week, he’ll be defending against plaintiffs who claim he stole their idea for the web site.
In late 2002, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, classmates at Harvard, began developing a social-networking website to be called Harvard Connection or connectu.com. They recruited Zuckerberg to help program the site, but Zuckerberg instead founded what is now known as Facebook.
