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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

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The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You

The Social Network is not the feel-good movie of the year--certainly not for Mark Zuckerberg, or for the dozens of exceptionally talented men and women who created Facebook. They were, and are, brilliant, hardworking and imaginative people who managed to survive the uniquely fraught early moments of an online start-up. It was a swirl alright, but not the way the film would have you think.READ»

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Mark Zuckerberg Gives Awkward, Sweaty Interview at D8: Touches on Privacy and Scandal

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not fare as well as Steve Jobs during his D8 interview. Put it this way: the phrase "Nixon Moment" is actually used.READ»

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iFive: SF's Cellphone Radiation Law, Whale Poo Cleans CO2, OK GO on Facebook, LinkedIn Lawsuit, Maicon's Goal

After you put your book down and turned out the light last night, innovation was cramming hard for its exams today--and finding the time to score a goal from an impossible angle.1. San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to pass a ...READ»

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Facebook Hijacks "The Social Network" Buzz With Massive Adweek Party [Pics, Video]

Mark Zuckerberg's crew enlists Cirque du Soleil acrobats and the mayor of Montreal for a night of revelry before the release of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's less-than-flattering Facebook movie. With any luck, attendees are too hungover today to make the premiere. Fast Company enters the belly of the PR beast and finds ... cookies.READ»

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Facebook's Zuckerberg Nearly, But Not Quite, About-Faces on Privacy [Updated]

After months of complaints on Facebook's gung-ho attitude to its user's private data, Mark Zuckerberg has relented. Facebook will streamline its privacy settings. But did Zuckerberg really do an about-face on privacy or not? Mark ...READ»

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Mark Zuckerberg Announces Details of $100 Million Grant to Newark Schools

Startup: Education, as the foundation is called, will be funded with $100 million of Zuckberg's own Facebook stock, and is not "an elaborate publicity stunt," says Newark mayor.READ»

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Mark Zuckerberg Announces Details of $100 Million Grant to Newark Schools

Startup: Education, as the foundation is called, will be funded with $100 million of Zuckberg's own Facebook stock, and is not "an elaborate publicity stunt," says Newark mayor.READ»

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Facebook Plans 50% Expansion

Facebook is planning to expand its 1,000-person ranks by 50%, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Bloomberg. The company is using the dismal economic times as a bartering chip, picking up engineers and executives on ...READ»

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Mark Zuckerberg Now Richer, More Philanthropic Than Steve Jobs

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is deliriously rich--richer than the Apple CEO, even--and contrary to what a certain movie might tell you, is charitable enough to donate $100 million to Newark schools.READ»

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Facebook Attempts to Make Privacy Settings Simple [Video]

Facebook's complex, ever-changing privacy settings have angered many a loyal user. Now the social networking site is hoping to undo some of the damage with a new policy intended to make privacy controls simple. Previously, Facebook ...READ»

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Exclusive Interview: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on the Value of Viral Loops

This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget. While still a teenager Mark ...READ»

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Facebook's New Groups, Dashboards, and Downloads Explained [Video]

At Facebook's presser today, Mark Zuckerberg introduced three big announcements: algorithmic friends, privacy dashboards, and personal information downloads. READ»

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A Pitch to Mark Zuckerberg to Ghostwrite His Tips for Managing a Successful Startup

Dear Mark Zuckerberg,I'm writing to you (big fan of yours. Biiiiig fan) to suggest that, when the inevitable book deals from publishers come winging your way, you young thruster, you, that I ghostwrite it. Not your memoirs--let's ...READ»

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Lift Conference

Conventional wisdom -- and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg -- suggests privacy is no longer a social norm. But at last year's Lift, a conference on the social consequences of new technologies that hits Geneva this month, think tanker ...READ»

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Are Social Media Privacy Issues Less of a Problem for Teens?

Anyone worried by privacy issues on social networking sites should ask themselves the question: is the next generation even going to be bothered by online security? A survey in the U.K. has discovered that 25% of teenagers have ...READ»

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Is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg More Powerful Than the President?

Who is more powerful: 400-million-user strong Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, or the leader of the free world? That was the question posed to Soraya Darabi, #53 on our Most Creative People in Business list, who explained ...READ»

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Infographic: The Road to a Facebook IPO

At the f8 developer's conference, the biggest question in the air is money. And lots of it.READ»

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Facebook is the "It" Company of 2007

41 million users and growing. The cool spot for coders. The hot place to test a business. The "it" company of 2007.READ»

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Crib Sheet: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook f8 Keynote

Facebook is invading the rest of the Internet, foisting its social manifest on your online life. Documents, toolbars, new search options, recommendations, plug-ins, and 30 new partners--this is what you need to know.READ»

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The Heady Days of Facebook's Formation: Hacking Competitors and Smack-Talk Over IM

Business Insider posted a trio of articles today purporting to show the earliest days of Facebook, when it was still run out of Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room. Turns out, its history isn't exactly spotless--not that you can ...READ»

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Young Mark Zuckerberg Interview: "We Ran The Site Originally for $85 a Month"

There are plenty of reasons to see the documentary Our Time. The film at first sounds like a fairly standard 20-something road trip movie, but it will challenge your stereotypes about Millennials, and includes some excellent ...READ»

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Most Wanted Bosses: Mark Zuckerberg Ranks Low, Oprah High

A new poll suggests Mark Zuckerberg, Simon Cowell, and Tony Hayward are far from ideal bosses.READ»

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Young Mark Zuckerberg on Film: "We Ran The Site Originally for $85 a Month"

The documentary Our Time at first sounds like a standard 20-something road trip movie. But it will challenge your stereotypes about Millennials in the end, and includes some excellent interviews--like this one, with a fresh-faced Mark ...READ»

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Inside Facebook - What's It Worth?

I recently spent a chunk of my life reporting a story on Facebook , the social networking phenomenon that seems to have swept away every person on the planet under 24 years of age. Nineteen million users worth. Or, as one ...READ»