Here’s why your next meeting should be spent walking, not sitting

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(Thanks to Twitter user @TroyJMorris for the Aaron Sorkin “Walk and Talk” tip — hence the video above) For those working every day, and especially in the startup world, it’s not easy to fit exercise into hectic schedules. So here’s something to try next time you set up a one-on-one meeting: ditch the chairs and… Read More…

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Tech’s new champion for immigration reform

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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his position on immigration reform in a Washington Post op-ed on Wednesday, no one was surprised to hear that, like many Americans, Zuckerberg found the system flawed. But in the emotionally-charged issue of immigration, Zuckerberg’s perspective is colored by his place in the technology world. Backed by a group of… Read More…

Zuckerberg leads list of most-liked CEOs; Bezos’ approval rating soars and Ballmer is a no-show in top 50

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Do you like the job your boss is doing? If you work at Facebook, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, EMC, SAP, Apple or Google, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. The CEOs of those tech titans each scored approval ratings above 90 percent in Glassdoor’s annual ranking of the top highest-rated CEOs. (Glassdoor bases its… Read More…

Video: Mark Zuckerberg tells the story of how he inspired one kid to code

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Code.org, the non-profit created by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, continues to gain momentum around its public relations campaign stressing the importance of computer science education. The short film — directed by Lesley Chilcott, the producer of Waiting for Superman and An Inconvenient Truth — has been viewed 12 million times since its release two weeks ago.  Hadi Partovi also… Read More…

Facebook unveils social search engine “Graph Search” with Bing partnership

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Who are your friends that live in Seattle? Which ones of those like the Seattle Seahawks? What restaurants have your friends gone to lately, and which ones have they liked the most? Where are the photos of my friends taken in Paris? Which ones have the most likes? These are the questions that Facebook’s new “Graph… Read More…

Mark Zuckerberg, a Microsoft engineer? Could have happened without Facebook

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Meet Mark Zuckerberg, an impressive and talented Microsoft engineer. That might have been a truthful sentence had Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, not gone off and revolutionized the social networking world. The young CEO spoke to entrepreneurs at Stanford this past weekend and said if not for Facebook, he’d most likely be at a big tech company… Read More…

Facebook at 1 billion: Zuckerberg’s ‘infrastructure’ reaches critical mass

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Facebook is marking a major milestone today, with Mark Zuckerberg announcing via status update that the social network has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. So what’s next? Zuckerberg gave a few hints in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, in response to the question of what’s possible now that wasn’t at 500 million users. “Now… Read More…

Zuckerberg’s net worth sinks; Gates remains richest American

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Oftentimes the leader of a newly public company experiences a substantial increase in net worth, but Facebook’s shrinking share price has had the opposite effect for Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO’s net worth came in at $9.4 billion in the latest calculation by those list-keepers at Forbes, down from an estimated $17.5 billion a year… Read More…

Facebook’s mantra, Comcast’s cap, Huffington’s status and other quotes of the week

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The best quotes, tweets, comments and random zingers we heard this week. “In the past eight years, all of you out there have built the largest community in the history of the world. You’ve done amazing things that we never would have dreamed of, and I can’t wait to see wait you guys all do… Read More…

No hoodie here: Facebook CEO marries longtime love

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Wow, what a week. How else to describe the news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in a private ceremony this weekend just a few days following the company’s blockbuster IPO. From the AP: The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned… Read More…