New Delhi: Most of us know Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO of Facebook, but there are a lot of interesting facts about this young billionaire that you all must know. Celebrating his 29th birthday, here we bring you 29 interesting facts about him.
1. Type @[4:0] in a Facebook comment, and Mark Zuckerberg's name will appear.
2. You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. Go to http://www.facebook.com/zuck and try for yourself.
3. As a teenager Mark was an aethist....
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01:15 PM, May 14, 2013
New York: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders have formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research. Zuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced "forward us") in an op-ed article in 'The Washington Post' late Wednesday night. In it, he said the US needs a new approach to these issues if it is to get ahead economically....
08:05 AM, Apr 12, 2013
A person familiar with Facebook says Zuckerberg is forming a political group to address issues such as education reform, immigration and scientific research. ...
10:33 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Facebook on Thursday unveiled the new look for its New Feed. The new News Feed looks clean, but it will be interesting to see the reactions of users. Facebook has announced the rollout of the new Facebook News Feed starting today. ...
12:14 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Titled 'What most schools don't teach,' the video features Zuckerberg, Gates and other tech icons. ...
07:16 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, has turned nine today. With over one billion active users, the social networking giant still continues to grow, since its launch on February 4, 2004. ...
11:08 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Facebook Inc's new search tool has strong potential to generate revenue for the social networking company, though it is unlikely to challenge Google Inc as the world's dominant search engine, Wall Street analysts said on Wednesday. ...
12:14 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Facebook has launched a new feature called Graph Search that allows users to search anything their Facebook friends have shared, including photos and posts. However, the feature is yet to be made public. ...
09:54 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Facebook's stock opened above $32 for the first time since July on anticipation about upcoming products and financial results. ...
06:09 AM, Jan 15, 2013
There is one interesting fact about the newly launched Facebook Poke app that we think you all should know. According to TechCrunch, the voice that enounces 'Poke', whenever a user receives a push notification, is actually Zuckerberg's voice. ...
12:56 PM, Dec 23, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is donating half a billion dollars in Facebook stock to a Silicon Valley charity, his second major donation since committing to giving away most of his wealth. The 28-year old co-founder of the world's largest online social network said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that he would work with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to "look for areas in education and...
09:20 AM, Dec 19, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc began rolling out a variety of new privacy controls on Wednesday, the company's latest effort to address user concerns about who can see their personal information on the world's largest social network. New tools introduced on Wednesday will make it easier for Facebook's members to quickly determine who can view the photos, comments and other information about them that appears on different parts of the website,...
10:34 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New York: Social networking giant Facebook Inc will replace Indian software major Infosys Ltd to become a part of the Nasdaq-100 index from Wednesday. Facebook will replace Infosys Ltd on the index. The Facebook stock has lost a significant value since its much hyped public listing in May 2012. Facebook Inc, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, currently has a market capitalisation of around $ 29.7 billion (Rs 1,62,000 crore). However,...
07:32 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New York: When it comes to power, politics trumps business, according to a new Forbes ranking on Wednesday that found heads of state occupying six of the top 10 spots among the world's most powerful people, led by US President Barack Obama. The annual list selected what Forbes said were the world's 71 most-powerful people from among the roughly 7.1 billion global populace, based on factors ranging from wealth to...
08:24 AM, Dec 06, 2012
New York: Social networking giant Facebook Inc is all set to replace Indian software major Infosys Ltd to become a part of the Nasdaq 100 index from December 12. According to Nasdaq, "Facebook Inc will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index, the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index, and the NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index prior to market open on Wednesday, December 12, 2012". Facebook will replace Infosys Ltd on the index....
12:20 PM, Dec 05, 2012
London: A third of primary school children in the UK believe Albert Einstein is a reality TV star and one-fourth of them think Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser, a new study has found. However, 68 per cent were correctly able to identify Mark Zuckerberg as the founder of social networking site Facebook. As many as 29 per cent kids think they have recently seen Einstein, who died in 1955, on...
03:35 PM, Oct 29, 2012
London: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that if the social networking website had not worked out he would have probably landed at Microsoft. "I probably would have taken an engineering job...(and) always had a lot of respect for Microsoft," he told Paul Graham, a co-founder of the tech venture capital fun Y Combinator, during a 45-minute interview before an audience of 1,700 at Stanford's Memorial Hall. "A lot of...
02:38 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New York: More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing. That's double the 500 million it hit in July 2010 - what now seems like a lifetime but was a little more than two years ago. August 2008 marked another big juncture, 100 million...
06:05 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook is now a billion users strong. Facebook's CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone on his Facebook profile. "This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honour of serving you," Zuckerberg posted. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I...
05:32 PM, Oct 04, 2012
