A New York man with a shady past was arrested on Friday for using a forged contract with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to lay claim to half of the world’s leading online social network. Paul Ceglia, 39, faces a pair of fraud charges that each carries a maximum sentence of…
Reports – and myths – about user privacy abound on Facebook. Is it time for the social network to be more open with users? In the weeks since Mark Zuckerberg trumpeted Facebook’s growth to 1bn monthly users, there has been a lot of focus on the social network’s struggle to…
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the TechCrunch conference in San Francisco. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Sept. 11. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday. The company has hired more than half a dozen software and hardware engineers who have worked on…
Just in case the last few weeks haven’t already been eventful enough for Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO now is creating more headlines by making a shock appearance in a Chinese commercial released Sunday. According to the website China Smack, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan randomly appeared in the commercial for…
Facebook on Friday makes the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, raking in billions of dollars it could wield to dethrone Google as king of the Internet. Facebook stock priced at $38 per share was to begin trading under the symbol “FB” on the Nasdaq, giving the world’s leading…
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook will go public hacker style with an all-night software bending bash to culminate with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg remotely ringing the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday, reports said. Employees were signing up for a “hackathon” to start late Thursday at Facebook’s offices in the Silicon Valley city…
Facebook has raised its initial public offering price to between $34 and $38 a share after being “swamped” with requests, confounding sceptics who say the social network is overvalued. The new price range is comfortably above the previous guide of $28 to $35, and confirms Facebook’s place in the history…
SYDNEY — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has warned Mark Zuckerberg about the dangers of going public as Facebook counts down to its hotly anticipated share offering. The world’s leading social network is expected to start trading on the tech-heavy Nasdaq on Friday and has set a price range of $28…
Facebook frenzy is spreading ahead of the company’s big-time stock market debut, with anything from Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie to the billion-dollar buy of Instagram sparking controversy. Speculation about the promise or pitfalls of owning a piece of the world’s leading social network was so feverish by the weekend that one report contended there was too much demand…