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Facebook hires former Apple marketing executive Rebecca Van Dyck
As part of its IPO filing last week, it was revealed that social networking giant Facebook had hired Rebecca Van Dyck as its head of global marketing. An interesting hire, to be sure, given that we haven’t seen much advertising from Facebook over the past few years. Before joining Facebook, Van Dyck was employed at [...]
Continue reading...Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to investors highlights difference between Facebook and Google+
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Last week, Facebook filed its long awaited IPO and many long-time employees are about to cash in big time. The IPO surrounding Facebook represents a watershed moment with respect to online social communities. Whereas sites like Friendster and MySpace had their time in the sun and eventually lost momentum, Facebook has continued to grow with [...]
Continue reading...Mark Zuckerberg, and all of Facebook it seems, are Mac users
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Earlier today, Faceboko CEO Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a photo of his desk to Facebook. Seems like the Facebook wunderkind is a fan of the MacBook Air. And taking a look around the office, seems like Facebook HQ is quite Mac heavy. All in all, this isn’t too surprising. It was revealed during Facebook’s IPO filing [...]
Continue reading...From the Jobs playbook – Zuckerberg to take just $1 in salary
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Following all of the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s IPO announcement comes this interesting nugget from Electronista: The SEC filing behind Facebook’s long-expected IPO has seen company founder Mark Zuckerberg take an Apple cue in his pay. The CEO earlier this month requested that, as of the start of 2013, his base pay be cut from as [...]
Continue reading...Jerry Seinfeld explains Facebook back in 1992 [Video]
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Who knew that Seinfeld had the ability to so precisely describe the dynamic that makes Facebook so popular and addicting back in 1992. The following is the show opening from the famous Bubble Boy episode. Moops!
Continue reading...Apple retail employee fired after making snide iPhone jokes on Facebook
Monday, December 5, 2011
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Apple’s penchant for product secrecy is well-known, and even extends down to preventing employees from blogging in certain instances. Recently, the blogosphere was aflutter with news that Apple fired a retail store employee named Samuel Crisp after he began ranting and raving about his iPhone on his Facebook account. Crisp disputed the basis for his [...]
Continue reading...Mark Zuckerberg talks about Steve Jobs the mentor
Monday, November 7, 2011
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By John Hiesler: Apple and Facebook have been known to butt heads at the negotiation table but that never stopped Apple co-founder Steve Jobs from dispensing some sage advice to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In an interview set to air tonight with Charlie Rose, ZUckerberg explains the extent to which Jobs helped Facebook remain focused [...]
Continue reading...Facebook and Apple mend fences to stave off threat from Google
Monday, October 3, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Facebook and Apple haven’t exactly had the smoothest of relationships. Highlighting their tumultuous relationship, which appears to be on the upswing, Mashable provides us with many interesting tidbits detailing the ups and downs of Facebook’s dealing with Apple. The beginning of the saga that would become Facebook and Apple got off to [...]
Continue reading...Facebook iPad app rumored to debut at Apple’s October iPhone event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Just hours after news spread that Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen had left the company amid frustration that Facebook still hadn’t released the Facebook iPad app he helped engineer came word from Mashable that Facebook will unveil it’s long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s upcoming media event on October 4th where the company will unveil the final [...]
Continue reading...Facebook acquires Push Pop Press, shores up impressive design talent
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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Facebook yesterday announced that it had acquired Push Pop Press, the innovative company staffed by former Apple employees Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris. Push Pop Press, in case you’re unfamiliar, was the company behind the innovative and interactive iPad app “Our Choice” which is based on a book by former Vice President Al Gore. “Our [...]
Continue reading...Winkelevoss twins fire back at former Harvard president Larry Summers
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Last week, former Harvard president Larry Summers created quite a stir when he called the Winklevoss twins assholes (you know, the duo who sued Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their social networking idea). In a recent interview, Summers mocked what the Winklevoss were wearing (tie and jackets at 3PM) and said that he had [...]
Continue reading...When Google outhustled Microsoft to sign an ad deal with MySpace
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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You don’t hear about MySpace much these days, which is sort of interesting given that it used to be the ish back in the day. But as we all know, Mark Zuckerberg smoothly positioned Facebook as the social network of choice, subsequently usurping MySpace’s influence in the process. But way back when MySpace was still [...]
Continue reading...Harvard President Larry Summers calls the Winklevoss twins “assholes”
Thursday, July 21, 2011
We’re always willing to briefly venture out of the Apple world to point out some douchebaggery when we see it. Now we’re not entirely caught up on the Winklevoss/Facebook drama, but we do know that the Winklevoss twins (Cameron and Tyler) attended Harvard and sued Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the idea for what would eventually [...]
Continue reading...Why Google+ has no long term traction and why Circles is not THAT useful
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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I’ve had a lot of back and forth with friends concerning the prospects of Google+. Put simply, I don’t think it poses much of a threat to Facebook. What Google has on its side is the ability to leverage its search engine and email prowess to really increase the number of Google+ users while at [...]
Continue reading...New “Project Spartan” initiative from Facebook looks to circumvent iOS App Store
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Given how similar Apple and Facebook are to the extent they both want to wield absolute control over their products, the latest rumor emanating out of Silicon Valley isn’t all that surprising. TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is working hard on a new secretive initiative dubbed “Project Spartan” that will be an entirely new HTML [...]
Continue reading...Caughtin the Act: Facebook hires PR firm to run smear campaign against Google
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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Subversion, my friends. This is what Facebook sneakily tried to do to Google in an effort to highlight the latter’s mischievous efforts regarding user privacy. Earlier this week, the PR firm Burson-Marsteller contacted blogger Chris Soghoian and offered to pay him to write an anti-Google article in a mainstream and widely read online publication. The [...]
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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