Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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Facebook Confirms ‘Dislike’ Button is Nearing Public Testing
After previously explaining how a “dislike” button would not be “good for the community” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has now confirmed that the much-requested feature will soon be added to the social network. The 31 year old billionaire entrepreneur’s surprise change of opinion on the dislike button was announced yesterday when the subject was again…
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Facebook Gives Thumbs Down to Dislike Button
One of the most demanded features from Facebook users is a Dislike button – offering a counter to the Like button which has been a social network mainstay now for a number of years. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has addressed this in a recent Q&A and suggests they have been thinking about it – but…
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Zuckerberg Pledges 25Mil to Ebola Care
Facebook bossman and known philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg has thrown his massive fortune in front of the advancing ebola epidemic which plagues coastal west Africa as we speak. The deadly virus was discovered in Guinea in December last year, and has gradually spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia, claiming thousands of lives by means of…
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Facebook Messenger to be removed from the Facebook App
Facebook’s need to forever clutter your mobile screen is becoming more prevalent with the planned removal of the private messaging facility from the Facebook App. So that you can continue sending messages you will be forced to download the separate Messenger app and should you chose to click the message button in the main Facebook…
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Facebook buys WhatsApp for a staggering $16 billion
Despite denying claims in December of last year, WhatsApp has been acquired for big bucks…
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Facebook Flavoured Ice Cream Being Sold in Croatia
Ever wondered what Facebook would taste like if it were an ice cream flavour? Well now you can find out (unofficially!)
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Facebook tops 1 billion monthly active users
“You don’t get a billion users without your share prices dropping.” Facebook has announced that it has one billion active monthly users in an official Facebook blog post today, and to celebrate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared the news: “This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re…
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FTC officially allows Instagram sale to Facebook
The FTC has officially closed the case on the Facebook Acquisition of Instagram for 1 Billion dollars which will now pave the way for the deal to be closed and the two companies to combine and start launching new products. The FTC passed the deal unanimously in a five-to-zero vote, saying that “the deal may now proceed…
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Facebook Goes Public with Shares Priced at $38, is Now Worth $104 Billion
Mark Zuckerberg and co. go public, offering you a slice of Facebook’s success
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Facebook Encourages Social Users to Share Organ Donor Details
Facebook is encouraging organ donors to share info with the social site in a new “Health & Wellbeing” feature on Timeline.
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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1billion
Mark Zuckerberg has just updated his status to inform Facebook users that the social networking site will be buying popular photo-sharing site Instagram for a cool $1 billion. Instagram was first launched in October 2010 for iPhone users and has just recently released a version for Android too. In fact, when released, the app was…
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Hoax News Story Heralds the “End of Facebook” on March 15th!
A “news” site which reports alien takeovers of Earth and Mike Tyson’s pigeon fetish has pranked the socially addicted internet community into believing that Facebook would be pulled on March 15th 2012 and that all data, photos and conversation will be deleted – Heralding the end of the world as we know it! After Weekly…