Mark Zuckerberg Was Highest Paid U.S. CEO of 2012
Mark Zuckerberg was by far the highest paid public CEO in the United States last year, according to a new report. The Facebook CEO’s total compensation for 2012 was nearly $2.3 billion, more than twice...
View Article30% of Americans Get Their News on Facebook
A new study reveals that 30% of Americans get their news on Facebook, and suggests that the social network drives people to media sites who may not have otherwise done so. Of that 30%, more than half —...
View ArticleFacebook Reportedly Offered $1 Billion to Acquire Snapchat
Investor worries regarding the growing number of potentially overfunded tech companiesseemed to have died down in recent months, but new information surrounding popular app Snapchat could renew talk of...
View ArticleThe 10 Companies That Own the Internet
Roughly one of every seven people on the planet visited a Google web property in July. Google sites received 1.2 billion unique visitors in that month alone. Statista’s chart, below, shows the 10...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Its Messenger App More Like Texting
Facebook is updating its standalone messaging app, Messenger, the company announced Tuesday. The new version of Messenger, an app that lets users send messages on mobile devices, will be available to...
View ArticleTeens Are Officially Leaving Facebook
We already knew that Facebook was no longer the most popular social network for teenagers, but we now have confirmation from the company itself. Facebook CFO David Ebersam said that although youth...
View ArticleFacebook Boston Engineering Office
Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his Harvard dorm room. The Boston office...
View ArticleZuckerberg Selling $2.3 Billion Worth of Facebook Stock to Pay Taxes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday will sell $2.3 billion worth of his company’s stock largely to pay tax bills on options that he is exercising. The sale is part of a 70 million share offering....
View ArticleHow Facebook Changed the World
Facebook is only as interesting as the things that people share on it, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t made a worldly impact or two on its own. Here are the top eight ways that Facebook has...
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