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Twitter rejects $500m Facebook friendship?

Crave Maybe it wasn't just egregious Silicon Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter. Kara Swisher of AllThingsD reported early on...

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25 November 2008, 9:44 > More matches in Crave

Facebook pokes 100 million users

News The news came straight from the source: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and several of his fellow executives put it in their status messages on the social network, and platform manager Dave Morin broadcast it in his Twitter feed.

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27 August 2008, 9:38 > More matches in News

News.blog: Facebook surpasses MySpace traffic

News It's been a slow but steady upward climb for Facebook, which was founded by then-Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new...

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24 June 2008, 8:56 > More matches in News

The Ultimate Tech Celebrity Deathmatches

Crave Even Rupert Murdoch is here, set to beat the living daylights out of Mark Zuckerberg, the young whippersnapper who conjured up Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, a young Web entrepreneur, founded the Facebook network that is taking the young and old by...

7 March 2008, 7:30 > More matches in Crave

Microsoft takes $240m stake in Facebook

News Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it should be noted, was not present on the call. Microsoft will take a $240m (£117m) equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping $15bn (£7bn).

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25 October 2007, 9:12 > More matches in News

Facebook heading for 'eventual chill'

News Speaking at a web 2.0 conference in the US recently, Mark Zuckerberg, this year's top Agenda Setter and founder and CEO of Facebook -- very much the social network of the moment -- said his company is 'years' away from any such flotation.

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22 October 2007, 9:10 > More matches in News

Facebook founder leads Agenda Setters

News Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of social networking site, Facebook, has been named the most influential person in tech for 2007. Zuckerberg topped CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com's eighth annual 2007 Agenda Setters poll...

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18 October 2007, 8:32 > More matches in News

News.blog: Facebook's grants for apps

News The fund's investment committee will consist of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, vice president of product marketing and operations Charmath Palihapitaya and board members Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and Peter Thiel of the

18 September 2007, 10:02 > More matches in News

News.blog: Facebook eliminates email?

News Despite whether you agree with that notion, it certainly isn't an image that Facebook wants to have as it continues its mission to "map the social graph", as founder Mark Zuckerberg likes to put it. According to a post on the company blog,

21 August 2007, 10:06 > More matches in News

Facebook users warned on cybercrime

News Rather than putting it in our terms of service that you promise not to breach our security and putting the onus on us, we are just going to open it up slowly over time," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in June.

31 July 2007, 9:00 > More matches in News

Judge delays Facebook court case

News ConnectU, which is accusing Facebook of stealing its ideas, has been in legal pursuit of its rival, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, and early employees Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Christopher Hughes...

26 July 2007, 9:50 > More matches in News

Facebook's court day has dawned

News I think that people are just really attracted to the story of Mark Zuckerberg and how much the company has grown, and how Facebook has been woven into the culture of not only college students but beyond.

25 July 2007, 10:51 > More matches in News

Facebook apps: this month's must-have

News But in an interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com after the developer conference, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (who dropped in unexpectedly at the event) said though some users might find the third-party applications distracting or...

18 June 2007, 9:42 > More matches in News

Facebook opens up to outside services

News MySpace executives may yawn, but Facebook is also going to allow other companies to open retail services and advertise on the site, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced at a media event in San Francisco on Thursday.

25 May 2007, 9:52 > More matches in News

News.blog: Yahoo wants Bebo

News Yahoo offered up a similar offer for Facebook last year, which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously turned down. Acquisition gossip season rolls on. The Telegraph reported on Sunday that Yahoo is rumoured to be eyeing social-networking site...

21 May 2007, 9:45 > More matches in News