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Reminiscing about my school friend Mark Zuckerberg

Rebecca Davis O’Brien, a fellow Harvard student with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, spills the dirt on Facebook’s early days in comparison to the portrayal in the new The Social Network film. It’s quite a juicy tale.

Why Facebook won’t mourn the death of Google Wave

If anybody is bereaved by the collapse of Google Wave, it isn’t Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The search engine giant’s consistent failure to connect with social networking platforms is very good news for Zuckerberg, says Pete Cashmore.

Like! Zuckerberg gets the Facebook treatment

Facebook regularly gets accused of breaching privacy. As payback, Gawker gave Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg the full Hollywood treatment, with a weekend of paparazzi snapping his every move.

84% of Facebook is mine, all mine

An American graphic designer has launched a high profile lawsuit against Facebook, allegedly an old contract entitles him to the vast majority of the company. It’s not the first time CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of dodgy dealings.

Video of the Day: Facebook, the movie

Check out the trailer of the new film about the founding of Facebook, The Social Network. Who knew social media was so horrifying?

Google vs. Stephen Conroy

Stephen Conroy is taking on internet giants Google and Facebook over their recent privacy breaches. But is he just capitalising on the public sentiment against the two companies to take the heat off his widely-panned internet filter plans?

Facebook CEO: We stuffed up

Amidst the torrent of criticism raining down upon Facebook over its privacy policy, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pens a mea culpa in the Washington Post: “We just missed the mark.”

Inside Facebook

Read an excerpt from David Kirkpatrick’s new book The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, revealing how wunderkind CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned the site into a $20bn company.

10 reasons to delete your Facebook account

Dan Yoder is deleting his Facebook account — and you should, too. Sure, Farmville is fun, but the company is unethical, incompetent, and doesn’t care about your privacy.

Facebook: The true Harvard story

Business Insider has conducted a detailed investigation into the early days of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, including accusations that he used personal info from the site to break into the email accounts of journalists from Harvard’s student newspaper.

Who will be the next Bill Gates?

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sergey Brin or a bunch of rich Chinese guys you’ve probably never heard of: which young-gun tech tycoon will be the “next” Bill Gates? Forbes rounds up the contenders.

Does anyone still care about online privacy?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has caused quite a stir by stating in an interview that internet users no longer care about sharing personal info online. “O RLY?” say internet users. The Atlantic Wire wraps the fallout.

VIDEO: Mark Zuckerberg: How I invented Facebook

He may still look a bit like a geeky teenager, but 25-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has transformed the little online project he started in his dorm room into a $6-billion company. He tells Business Insider how.

Facebook grows users and profits

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blogged that they’ve hit 300 million users, and become cash flow positive earlier than predicted. Photo storage cost cuts from the Haystack project must’ve helped, says TechCrunch.

Facebook history author: be afraid

The author of a book about the founding of Facebook says the company is “terrified” by its contents, which claim it was started when creator Mark Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s servers to create a “hot or not” website because he couldn’t pick up women.

Blogwatch: the Facebook edition

Facebook set to become just another spammer? … Facebook has fulfilled its destiny: it is now Adbook … Just capitalising on what friends already do … Facebook abuse, the new web violation … Does it even work anyway?

Microsoft values Facebook at a mammoth US$15 billion

It was announced this morning that Microsoft has agreed to pay US$240 million to purchase a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, the growing social networking website. The purchase values the three-year old company at a mammoth US$15 billion, writes Adam Schwab.