Status: married. Surprise update as Mark Zuckerberg weds Priscilla Chan – The Guardian
Posted on | May 20, 2012 | No Comments
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Status: married. Surprise update as Mark Zuckerberg weds Priscilla Chan
The Guardian The newly enriched Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to "married". Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan wed at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday, capping a week during which the social network … Zuckerberg ties the knot Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg weds one day after IPO |
India’s poorest become video journalists
Posted on | May 20, 2012 | No Comments
One video shows police beating protesters with sticks. Another shows two lifeless, dirty bodies dragged from their workplace in the sewers. In a third, a man explains why his hand was slashed.
Facts and figures about Facebook
Posted on | May 19, 2012 | No Comments
Facts and figures about Facebook:
Facebook to begin trading as IPO, one of the world’s largest, raises $16 billion
Posted on | May 19, 2012 | No Comments
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of “likes” are worth on Wall Street, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell Friday morning from company headquarters a continent away.
Twitter agrees to adopt Do-Not-Track privacy option
Posted on | May 18, 2012 | No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter said it will officially support “Do Not Track,” a standardized privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser. …
Facebook’s Saverin fires back at tax-dodge critics
Posted on | May 18, 2012 | No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, under fire over the tax consequences of renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said on Thursday he is obligated to and will pay “hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.” The social media entrepreneur and investor said in a statement, emailed to Reuters by a spokesman, that his decision to move to Singapore was “based solely on my interest in working and living” there. Saverin said he has been there since 2009. …
Jettisoning CEO with misleading biography won’t resolve all of Yahoo’s credibility issues
Posted on | May 18, 2012 | No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.
Several brokerages stop taking Facebook IPO orders
Posted on | May 17, 2012 | No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors who want Facebook Inc shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies. Morgan Stanley & Co did the same, according to three advisers at the firm who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the press. E*Trade Financial also stopped accepting orders as of 4 p.m. …
HTC: One X multitasking is ‘operating normally,’ but tweaked for Sense – The Verge
Posted on | May 17, 2012 | No Comments
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HTC: One X multitasking is 'operating normally,' but tweaked for Sense
The Verge By Dieter Bohn on May 16, 2012 04:20 pm 98Comments Over the past couple of weeks, there's been a steadily increasing drama surrounding how multitasking works on the HTC One X. HTC introduced two tweaks to how multitasking works on Android 4.0 with … HTC: Sense 4.0 multitasking is working as designed HTC responds to One X multitasking hubbub HTC Responds To HTC One X Multitasking Issues |
Personal information on Ontario hunters, fishers stored in the United States
Posted on | May 17, 2012 | No Comments
TORONTO – Hunters and fishers in Ontario expressed concerns about their privacy Wednesday because their personal information is being stored in the United States, where it is subject to the American Patriot Act.