Feb 15
In a social scene that looks like someone spun a roulette wheel, The Zuck, Nas, and mega-rich Silicon Valley investor Ben Horowitz were all in a room for some reason. And it was all Instagrammed. More »
Jan 24
BuzzFeed reports that Zuck and wife Priscilla Chan will hold a fundraiser for NJ Gov. Chris Christie—meaning that Facebook now has political ties. It also means the Republican governor has some serious Silicon Valley cash headed his way. More »
Jan 14
The Daily Roundup for 01.14.2013
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Jan 14
Tomorrow, Facebook will reveal to the press what it’s been “building.” What could it be? Zuck rarely invites us to his corporate home, so it must be special—and here are our best guesses. More »
Dec 26
Facebook has long been getting criticism for its privacy practices on its users, and it looks like the CEO’s own sister is having issues of her own with the social networking giant. Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, complained on Twitter when a photo she posted that was meant to be set as private ended up being public somehow.
Randi, who is a former marketing director of Facebook, posted a photo to her Facebook page showing her family’s reaction to the new Poke app that was released last week, and According to Buzzfeed, a friend of a friend saw the photo and reposted it on Twitter, which turned a semi-private moment into a very public affair.
It turns out that Vox Media’s Callie Schweitzer is friends with one of Randi Zuckerberg’s friends and thought that the photo was a public Facebook post. Schweitzer ended up posting the adorable photo to Twitter, not meaning to cause any harm to Zuckerberg. However, Zuckerberg wasn’t too happy that the photo was made public and cried foul that her privacy had been violated.
Schweitzer immediately apologized and meant no harm, saying that the photo appeared at the top of her feed and “seemed public.” In the end, it turns out Randi Zuckerberg didn’t have her privacy settings tuned exactly how she wanted them, and didn’t know that a photo of hers was being posted to friends of friends, instead of just her friends. However, she ends up blaming the whole fiasco on social media etiquette, and that you should “always ask permission before posting a friend’s photo publicly. It’s not about privacy settings, it’s about human decency.”
[via Buzzfeed]
Mark Zuckerberg’s sister becomes victim of Facebook privacy issues is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Dec 03
In response to user feedback, Facebook is proposing a set of clarified governance and privacy policy changes, and they want you, the Facebook enthusiast, to vote on them once again! More »
Oct 26
39-year-old Paul Ceglia, a New York wood pellet salesman who claimed he owned a huge stake in Facebook by forging documents, was arrested today and taken into custody by US Postal inspectors at Ceglia’s home in Wellsville, NY. He was arrested on charges that he falsified records and destroyed evidence in a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud Facebook and the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
The story goes back two years ago when Ceglia filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, claiming that the two signed a contract in April 2003 that promised Ceglia a 50% stake in the social network. However, many of the documents and emails turned out to be falsified, and the date that the fake contract was signed (April 28, 2003) is said to be before the time period that the idea of starting Facebook came up.
Ceglia was running an online business called Streetfax.com back in 2003, and the two of them indeed signed a contract that would pay Zuckerberg for programming work. However, Ceglia claimed that as part of the deal, Zuckerberg promised him at least 50% ownership of Facebook. While the contract for programming work between Ceglia and Zuckerberg is certainly true, authorities ended up finding the real contract on Ceglia’s computer, which made no mention of Facebook or an ownership agreement.
A search through Harvard’s email servers produced no evidence of emails that Ceglia described in his lawsuit, and authorities found falsified existing records on his computer that support Celgia’s many untrue claims. Ceglia was officially charged with one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
[via Forbes]
Man arrested for plotting ownership scheme against Facebook is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Oct 20
Zuckerberg Predicts We’ll All Be Sharing 1,000 Times as Much Crap 10 Years From Now
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If you thought people were already sharing way too much on social networks, you’re in for a rough future. At least, that’s what your buddy Mark Zuckerberg thinks, and it’s probably safe to say he’s might know what he’s talking about. More »
Oct 08
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s HTML5 Android app was a mistake? Well, one of our tipsters, embedded deep inside the Social Network, has let us know that the native version for Google’s mobile OS has entered final testing. As such, it won’t be long before the software is ready for consumption by the public at large, give or take an angry Winklevii or two.
[Thanks, Anonymous]
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Facebook
Native Facebook app for Android is in the final phases of internal testing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 04
Zuckerberg: more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month
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Active accounts have become one of the hottest currencies online, especially for social networks. Previous boasts by Facebook have been quickly shot down, but this latest number is pretty hard to ignore. According to Zuckerberg himself the site now has 1 billion active monthly users. That’s right, one in seven people on the planet logs on to the social network at least once a full moon cycle. The announcement comes via the site’s official news blog, which if the numbers are true, could mean most of you have read this already. Zuckerberg broke the news originally in a Q&A with Bloomberg Businessweek, also claiming that the site now has 600 million mobile users.
Filed under: Internet, Facebook
Zuckerberg: more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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