Facebook’s long-awaited WhatsApp deal completes – costing Zuckerberg another $3bn October 6, 2014 Facebook's share price opened broadly flat today after its long-awaited deal to take over WhatsApp completed. But the deal has ended up costing Facebook nearly $3bn more than was originally intended, because of the amount of time taken to get approval. The deal – in which WhatsApp shareholders received 177.7m Facebook Class A shares and [...]
Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin September 29, 2014 Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken the three biggest billionaires in technology by accruing an additional $15bn in wealth since last year- more than any other billionaire this year. That's not bad for a yearly paycheque [...]
Iced-Berg? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and fellow tech CEOs get soaked August 14, 2014 It's often been said that the Silicon Valley tech scene is overheating, but photos of its best known chief exec dumping buckets of ice water over themselves is nonetheless perplexing. On closer inspection, though, you realise its a new social media “nomination”, not completely dissimilar to the no-makeup selfie, in a bid to raise [...]
Zuck celebrates 2nd IPO-versary May 15, 2014 IT’S BEEN a big week for Mark Zuckerberg. He turned the big 3-0 on Wednesday (sadly we don’t know what the billionaire did to celebrate, we can but imagine) and he could today be celebrating the second year anniversary of Facebook’s initial public offering. On Friday 18 May 2012 Zuck brought his baby to market [...]
One Reddit user said Zuck was visiting Oculus’ offices a month ago – and everyone ignored him March 26, 2014 The latest addition to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook empire has gotten many of Reddit's users very heated up. A part of the messageboard dedicated to Oculus Rift, which the social media giant announced it would be acquiring yesterday, is filled with anti-Facebook entries. Maybe that's why one user was ignored when he reported that the Facebook [...]
Zucker-bore is set on pushing his Internet.org February 24, 2014 THE TECH geeks currently nerding it out over at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona couldn’t believe their luck that just five days after Facebook splurged $19bn on Whatsapp, the connectivity wunderkind himself Mark Zuckerberg delivered the keynote speech last night. The Facebook chief exec showed up in his trademark jeans and T-shirt and like some [...]
Bottom Line: Zuckerberg takes centre stage in Barcelona February 23, 2014 FROM THE MWC BARCELONA ONCE a year, everyone who’s anyone in mobile undertakes a pilgrimage of sorts to Barcelona, for Mobile World Congress (MWC). Think Davos or the Sundance Film Festival but rather than politicians or movie directors, the congress draws more than 75,000 attendees from the mobile industry; executives, developers and analysts. This week [...]
Tough demands put on next lot of Zuckerbergs January 24, 2013 FACEBOOK’S recently opened London base is the type of relaxed environment the average undergraduate must dream of entering the workforce in – skateboards strewn across the floor, boardgames stacked on top of each other, and oddly-shaped sofas rather than stiff office chairs. However, ambitious students fantasising about being the next Mark Zuckerberg will have to [...]