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The Day Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:29:00 GMT

Source: parislemon.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Day Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion : Allison Fass reporting on Peter Thiel’s talk at SXSW this year where he recounted the time in 2006 that Mark Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy Facebook: His only partial rationalization at the time was that in the history of Yahoo, it had made two $1 billion offers that were also turned down. And those were to eBay and Google. “At least I could actually make a pseudo-scientific argument that in every case Yahoo offered $1 billion and it was rejected, it was the correct thing to do,” said Thiel. I should say that I know absolutely nothing about any sort of talks/deals between Tumblr and Yahoo. And I’m not sharing this to suggest that Tumblr should turn down such a supposed offer (my initial gut feeling is actually that such a partnership would make a lot of sense). I just found it fascinating given how closely the reported number is to the key number repeated in Thiel’s story. ...

Ten per cent of Facebook users are not human including Mark Zuckerberg's dog Beast

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:03:42 GMT

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Market research company, eMarketer, claims that of Facebook's one billion users at least 100 million are pets, brands and companies. ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey i...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:56:01 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he’s right that his company’s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current … Facebook’s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook ...

Yale Professor Grades Mark Zuckerberg's Record - A Very Generous B-minus

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:51:12 GMT

Source: hereisthecity.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would have earned a slightly improved grade this year for his leadership of the social media company, Yale School of Management Senior Associate Dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says.... read more > ...

Zuckerberg-led tech push for immigration finds enemies on the left

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:57:32 GMT

Source: www.denverpost.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
WASHINGTON -- To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. ...

Marco Zuckerberg and Mark Rubio: amnesty’s two indistinguishable amigos

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:09:20 GMT

Source: www.coachisright.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
By Kevin “Coach” Collins Mark Zuckerberg and Marco Rubio have become amnesty’s two indistinguishable amigos. They have morphed into Marco Zuckerberg and Mark Rubio. You’ve heard the radio spots and seen the television ads featuring Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio talking about the dire need to do something about the “immigration problem” not “illegal immigration” but immigration. During a minute’s worth of huffing and puffing Rubio tries to bulldoze past any logical objections to erasing our borders with faux tough talk designed to impress us with his credentials as an “insider’ who KNOWS more than we do. Rubio’s media crusade is funded by liberal Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. To impress us Rubio uses buzz phrases like “conservative immigration reform” “Tough border triggers” and “no giveaways for law breakers.” That putting these words in Rubio’s mouth is not only breathtakingly insulting to true conservatives, but simply not true shouldn’t resonate with a liberal like Zuckerberg but Rubio has been “playing a conservative on TV” long enough to know better. These spots betray a gross under estimation of conservatives. Zuckerberg probably believes conservatives marry their sisters and are far less intelligent than he is, but Rubio apparently thinks conservatives are pining for a way to suck up to Hispanics the way White liberals sucked up to Blacks and elected Barack Obama. A new report from Public Policy Polling ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday party hits a snag

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Source: www.itworld.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Facebook’s founder turned 29 on Tuesday and the party may still be going on read more ...

Progressives Turn Up Heat On Mark Zuckerberg

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:45 GMT

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Progressive groups are turning up the heat on Mark Zuckerberg's immigration group FWD.us, calling on its backers to pull out in order to protest the organization's political strategy. The push comes after entrepreneurs Elon Musk and David Sacks recently withdrew their support. Zuckerberg launched FWD.us to press for comprehensive immigration reform . But the group has been heavily criticized by some immigration reform supporters in recent weeks for its television ad campaign praising lawmakers for backing projects like the Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. FWD.us has argued that the ads were meant to give home district support to lawmakers backing immigration reform. The ads were up for one week but are no longer on air. Both CREDO and former Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-Wis.) Progressives United are running campaigns calling on the group's supporters to resign from the organization. They told The Huffington Post that combined, they have had about 63,000 people sign their petitions against FWD.us. The Huffington Post reached out to the 33 non-Facebook supporters of FWD.us for comment. Spokespeople for 13 of them -- Aditya Agarwal (Dropbox), Drew Houston (Dropbox), Ruchi Sanghvi (Dropbox), Jim Breyer (Accel Partners), Matt Cohler (Benchmark), Bill Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Brad Smith (Microsoft), Josh James (Domo), Mark Pincus (Zynga), Kei ...

Get Mark Zuckerberg some clothes

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:23:16 GMT

Source: www.cnn.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Tuesday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. He's 29. If that seems insanely young for a billionaire, remember that he co-founded Facebook when he was a teenager. ...

Zuckerberg’s PAC still laden with heavy hitters

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:06:21 GMT

Source: www.bizjournals.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Fwd.Us, Mark Zuckerberg’s tech-focused super PAC has lost a couple of high-profile members over its backing of conservative, drill-baby-drill politicians. Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk and serial web entrepreneur David Sacks bailed on it. But the group, which is primarily focused right now on immigration reform, still boasts some of the heaviest hitting venture capitalists, startup founders and all-around tech upstarts among its founders and funders. Our online affiliate Upstart has this… ...

Rubio/Zuckerberg's Lying Ad: Definitive If Verbose CIS Refutation

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:55:34 GMT

Source: www.vdare.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
H/T One Old Vet At 5-01 AM this morning – several hours after we posted A Talk Radio Listener Provides An Update On Rubio/Zuckerberg/Gang Of Weasels Propaganda; We Dissect It CIS emailed out Rubio’s Deceptive Amnesty Ad By John Feere. Like all CIS work it is very thorough. Below are my extracts of their responses to Rubio/ Zuckerman ’s lies. RUBIO: "Anyone who thinks what we have now in immigration is not a problem is fooling themselves. What we have in place today is de facto amnesty." "Rubio is trying to help President Obama fulfill his campaign goal of keeping all illegal aliens in the country and giving them benefits reserved for legal residents. If Rubio was actually troubled by the de facto amnesty being advanced by the Obama administration, Rubio would side with the ICE officials ...

10 fun facts about Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:49:47 GMT

Source: www.cnn.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. He's 29. If that seems insanely young for a billionaire, remember that he co-founded Facebook when he was a teenager. ...

Joel Kotkin does a number on Mark Zuckerberg: "Today’s Tech Moguls Don’t Employ Many Americans"

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:37:03 GMT

Source: www.vdare.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Joel Kotkin does a number on Mark Zuckerberg. A nd without resorting to weasel jokes . Joel is seriously unhappy about media glorification of winner-take-all-ism. Here are the Zuckerbergian parts, but there is lots more about other Silicon Valley superstars: America's New Oligarchs -- FWD.US and Silicon Valley's Shady 1 Percenters by Joel Kotkin 05/14/2013 ... A new, and potentially dominant, ruling class is rising. Today’s tech moguls don’t employ many Americans, they don’t pay very much in taxes or tend to share much of their wealth, and they live in a separate world ...

Credibility of Mark Zuckerberg’s PAC Plummets as Donors Jump Ship

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:35 GMT

Source: ivn.us --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Credibility of Mark Zuckerberg’s PAC Plummets as Donors Jump Ship Credit: nbcbayarea.com Mark Zuckerberg’s 501(c)(4) organization, FWD.us, took another political blow last week when two key donors publicly left the super PAC. Focused on the expansion of the H1-B visas , FWD.us recently launched a series of advertisements featuring lawmakers pushing for immigration reform. The group is sending out two sets of ads from two separate subsidiaries: “Americans for a Conservative Direction,” targeted towards conservatives, and the “Council for American Job Growth,” targeted towards independent voters. Amidst the calls for action to conservative voters, however, are blatant references to other key issues — notably the expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline. While variations in messaging is not an uncommon advertisement strategy, using one issue to get support for another will not go unnoticed in the political world. The super PAC’s ploy to use the controversial issue of the Keystone XL pipeline to garner conservative support was, indeed, noticed by not one, but two of the group’s donors: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and David Sacks, founder of the social network Yammer. Once a supporter of the group’s seemingly noble cause, Musk condemns FWD.us for the political tactics used to win over support. Explaining his departure from FWD.us, Musk suggested that contrary to popular belief, politicians do listen to their moral compass. “I have spent a l ...

Joel Kotkin does a number on Mark Zuckerberg et al

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:54:00 GMT

Source: isteve.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
No weasel jokes, either. Joel is seriously unhappy about media glorification of winner-take-all-ism. Here are the Zuckerbergian parts, but there is lots more about other Silicon Valley superstars: America's New Oligarchs -- FWD.US and Silicon Valley's Shady 1 Percenters by Joel Kotkin 05/14/2013 ... A new, and potentially dominant, ruling class is rising. Today’s tech moguls don’t employ many Americans, they don’t pay very much in taxes or tend to share much of their wealth, and they live in a separate world that few of us could ever hope to enter. But while spending millions bending the political process to pad their bottom lines, they’ve remained far more popular than past plutocrats, with 72 percent of Americans expressing positive feelings for the industry, compared to 30 percent for banking and 20 percent for oil and gas. Outsource Manufacturing, Import Engineers Perversely, the small number of jobs—mostly clustered in Silicon Valley—created by tech companies has helped its moguls avoid public scrutiny. ... This is an equation that defines inequality: more and more wealth concentrated in fewer hands and benefiting fewer workers. Not so much anti-union as post-union, the tech elite has avoided issues with labor by having so few laborers who could be organized. ... But Americans with those skills shouldn’t rest easy, either. These same companies are always looking to cut down their domestic labor costs. Mark Zuckerberg, ...

10 fun facts about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:40:48 GMT

Source: www.cnn.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tuesday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. He's 29. If that seems insanely young for a billionaire, remember that he co-founded Facebook when he was a teenager. ...

A Talk Radio Listener Provides An Update On Rubio/Zuckerberg/Gang Of Weasels Propaganda; We Dissect It

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:03:40 GMT

Source: www.vdare.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Re: A Talk Radio Listener Reports On The Awfulness Of Marco Rubio's Propaganda (Paid For By Mark Zuckerberg!) From: An Anonymous Talk Radio Listener [ Email him ] ...

10 cosas que no sabías de Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:03:00 GMT

Source: mexico.cnn.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Este martes es el cumpleaños del cofundador de Facebook y joven genio de la tecnología, para celebrarlo te presentamos algunas curiosidades ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s complaint box is filling up. The billionaire founder of FaceB...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:14:22 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg’s complaint box is filling up. The billionaire founder of FaceBook is behaving as destructively as other sociopaths who hoard vast riches while others starve and die for lack of medical care. And people are letting him know how they feel about it. Zuckerberg’s new advocacy group FWD.us is running TV ads in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A petition asks him to stop. The comments that people are leaving on the petition ask him to do a number of other things I won’t repeat. You’ll never guess what they’ve found that rhymes with Zuck. Zuckerberg Gets an Earful After Promoting Keystone XL » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Nam www.counterpunch.org Zuckerberg Gets an Earful After Promoting Keystone XL ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turns 29 today. "Like" to wish him a happy birthday!

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:11:32 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turns 29 today. "Like" to wish him a happy birthday! ...