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Zuckerberg maintains iron grip on Facebook

NEW YORK — Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will retain an iron grip over the social network even after it becomes a public company. ? Facebook's filing for an initial public offering reveals that Zuckerberg, who launched the social network from his Harvard dormitory room when he was just 19, owns 28.2 percent of the shares in the company. ? At a valuation of $

February 3 2012 | Posted in GreenTech | Read More »

Hating on the Ladies: The Real Backlash Against Pinterest

I don’t use Pinterest .

February 3 2012 | Posted in Earth, Home | Read More »

Zuckerberg has iron grip on Facebook

NEW YORK — Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will retain an iron grip over the social network even after it becomes a public company. ? Facebook's filing for an initial public offering reveals that Zuckerberg, who launched the social network from his Harvard dormitory room when he was just 19, owns 28.2 percent of the shares in the company. ? At a valuation of $

February 3 2012 | Posted in GreenTech | Read More »

Amid privacy fears, some still resist Facebook

Facebook's 800 million users have made it a household name but some holdouts — technophobes and privacy zealots among them — are still refusing to join the social networking party. ? Facebook — founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, then a 19-year-old Harvard student — filed documents with the Security and Exchange Co

February 3 2012 | Posted in GreenTech | Read More »

Love, friends, work — how Facebook changes life

Friends, soulmates, lost parents, not to mention work opportunities — for about 10 percent of the planet, Facebook is where you go to find much of what matters most in life. ? Think of Facebook as something like a 24-hour party, virtual of course, with a chance to meet your friends' friends

February 2 2012 | Posted in GreenTech | Read More »

Causes founder Joe Green doesn’t regret not helping Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook

As Facebook prepares to file its IPO paperwork, one of the men who was there in the social networking site's early days won't be profiting quite as much as his former roommate, Mark Zuckerberg. ? Instead of dropping out of Harvard to help run the company, Joe Green?completed his college education.

February 1 2012 | Posted in Transportation | Read More »

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight email spam

WASHINGTON — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and “phishing” attacks. ? The Web giants said on Jan.

January 31 2012 | Posted in GreenTech | Read More »

Attention job seekers: Fix your Facebook timeline now

Every Facebook user will be transitioned to the new timeline layout in the coming weeks. If you’re searching for a new job then you really need to take a few minutes to make sure your account is ready for the big switch.

January 31 2012 | Posted in Transportation | Read More »

Anti-Gay Tennessee Legislator Booted from Knoxville Restaurant

Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield has made his name by being the most vocally anti-gay member of the state legislature. Early last year, Campfield introduced the ” Don't Say Gay ” bill, which would make it illegal for teachers to discuss homosexuality with students not in high school

January 31 2012 | Posted in Earth, Office, School | Read More »

Click "Like" After Class: Yale Professor Chooses Internet-Free Lecture Hall

Last fall, a Harvard Crimson staff writer drummed up some controversy when he wrote about how his peers regularly check Facebook in class because they're bored by lecturing professors. Well, in his search for a more dimly-lit space that would make projected images easier to see, Yale art history professor Alexander Nemerov stumbled onto a way around student's online multitasking.

January 30 2012 | Posted in Earth | Read More »