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Facebook founder fodder for animated film

A comic book based on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being turned into a short animated film tailored to television.

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created Nov 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook founder's first website sold at auction

The FaceMash.com Web address that landed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in trouble as a Harvard University student has sold at auction for slightly more than 30,000 dollars.

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created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

'Don't hold your breath' for Facebook IPO: Zuckerberg

Facebook is poised to transform an array of businesses including news, movies and music but it is nowhere near issuing stock, its celebrity co-founder said Tuesday.

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created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

E-mail secondary as Facebook revamps messaging (Update 3)

(AP) -- Facebook is betting that one day soon, we'll all be acting like high school students - more texting and instant-messaging, at the expense of e-mail. Facebook unveiled a new messaging system Monday, ...

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created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gloves come off when Chinese Web firms chase customers

In China's young Internet industry, competitors draw blood. When Binghao Cheng launched a social networking site two years ago, he named it Kaixin, or Happiness. But he didn't have the money to spare to buy the domain name ...

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created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Facebook founder eyes China, faces death threats in Pakistan

The founder of global social networking giant Facebook is so determined to make his company a success in China he's even learning the language.

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created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German ministers slam Facebook for privacy glitch

German ministers criticised social networking site Facebook on Sunday for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that allowed non-subscribers access to private data.

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created Oct 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Privacy a Facebook priority, says director Randi Zuckerberg

User privacy is the priority for Internet social networking site Facebook, which has come under fire from users for its privacy settings, the company's director of market development said on Sunday in Dubai.

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created Oct 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook and Bing fuse social network and search

Facebook and Microsoft began personalizing Internet queries on Wednesday, letting people add the recommendations of friends at the social network to search results.

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created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook rejects ownership lawsuit as a 'scam'

Facebook on Wednesday rejected as a "scam" a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he is entitled to 84 percent of the wildly successful social network.

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created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook Groups dinged for drafting members

Facebook on Thursday was getting kudos for giving members better control of their information but dinged for letting people be thrown into "groups" without their permission.

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created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook lets users form groups and download data

Facebook is letting users form cozy cliques as part of a move to give people more control of their information at the world's most popular online social network.

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created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook film paints harsh portrait of Zuckerberg

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg may finally have a reason to add a "dislike" button.

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created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No Facebook IPO until 2012 'at the earliest': board member

Peter Thiel, a member of the board of directors of Facebook, said Monday he does not expect the booming social network to go public for at least two years.

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created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook's Zuckerberg unveils 100 million dollar school gift

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg joined the ranks of openly philanthropic billionaires Friday with a 100-million-dollar grant to a troubled New Jersey public school system.

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created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0