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Following his abrupt departure last Friday from MSNBC, the outspoken Keith Olbermann has done anything but go quietly into that ‘good night.’ Public and media speculation has transitioned from possible reasons for his departure to what will be his next gig. There is even a growing grassroots effort to recruit the former Countdown host for [...]
After investments from Goldman Sachs (a key player in the subprime mortgage meltdown) and an unnamed Russian investor (super shady), Facebook’s value is now over $50 billion dollars, more than media giants Time Warner, eBay, and Yahoo. The investment raises questions about Facebook’s standings as a privately-held company, and whether these substantial donations will result [...]
He’s the second-youngest person ever named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” For 2010, the ‘honor’ goes to 26-year-old billionaire social media guru and founder of Facebook — Mark Zuckerberg. According to Time: “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging [...]
Bristol Palin has learned from her mother the horrible trait of not knowing when to keep her mouth shut. The former Dancing With The Stars phenom is now engaged in a public tiff with former castmate Margaret Cho over the comedian and gay activist’s recent blog posting claiming that Palin was forced by her mother [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down for a rare television interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday and spoke about being dubbed the “toddler CEO,” what he really feels about the movie The Social Network, and took time to unveil the new redesign of users’ Facebook profiles. To say I was utterly disappointed in Leslie Stahl’s [...]
Were you one of the millions who wore purple on October 20 to support anti-bullying and to honor the recent rash of gay teen suicides? There’s one Arkansas school board member who not only didn’t wear purple, he took to his Facebook profile to rant — complete with bad grammar — on why he thought [...]
Facebook is moving quickly to deflect a new report from the Wall Street Journal that says the social media site has been leaking user identity information to third parties — essentially providing user names and, in some cases, their friends’ names — to advertisers and tracking companies. The security breach affects millions of app users [...]
It’s been a heartbreaking week as everyone grapples with a string of suicides connected with homophobia and gay bullying. The latest is that of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, who leaped to his death from the George Washington bridge after his roommate allegedly secretly filmed him during a “sexual encounter” and then posted it live on [...]
Mark Zuckerberg is richer than Steve Jobs, with an estimated fortune of about $6.9 billion, according to the new Forbes magazine rich list. And that’s not the only headline this week involving the social networking guru due to the controversy surrounding today’s opening of the movie The Social Network, which paints an unflattering picture of [...]
Did you find yourself spinning your wheels today while trying to play Farmville or connect with that High School sweetie while your spouse was out of the room, only to find Facebook wouldn’t cooperate? Well, it wasn’t just you! For the second time in two days, the popular social site has issues. According to Huffington [...]
The long arm of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg strikes again, this time in the form of censorship over grassroots pages aimed at boycotts of Target over their anti-gay policies, and BP oil regarding the devastating Gulf oil spill. In the case of the Target boycott, as the page neared 78,000 members, Facebook “locked down” portions [...]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that a series of instant messages (IMs) uncovered by The New Yorker are legitimate, casting serious doubts on his character, if not on the safety of personal information on the world-famous site. This comes on the heels of an upcoming movie that exposes some of the scandal surrounding Facebook’s [...]
At first I thought this story was pure baloney, but when I saw that it came from the BBC, I decided to check it out. Freerice.com is a free trivia game helping to feed hungry people around the world. The game gives you a word, and you have to select the correct definition out of [...]
The Social Network could well be the most anticipated movie of the decade. Based on Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires,” the film is a gripping and dramatic look at how Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of friends, created Facebook, which has come to define social networking as we know it. The [...]
Believe it or not, Mark Zuckerberg has yet to exhaust his douchiness. In fact, the Facebook titan is now applying for a trademark for the word ‘face.’ Apparently something just about everyone has may no longer be able to appear at the beginning of a product, which will spell trouble for a number of already-existing [...]
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