Whether you’re interested in their tech empires, computer-savvy minds, or dashing looks, it would be hard to pass up a date with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg. So… Read More
Amazon is expanding its Kindle Singles lineup into a new area, promising “major long-form interviews with iconic figures and world leaders” as part of a new series called the “The… Read More
While much of the talk on today’s Facebook second quarter earnings call centered around the company’s positive financial performance, one product was left out of the equation: Facebook Home. Home,… Read More
Facebook exceeded 1.1 billion monthly active users in the first quarter, a new milestone for the company. The social network saw its biggest growth in Asia and other parts of… Read More
(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… Read More
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… Read More
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.… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
One of the interesting parts of Facebook’s Wall Street debut was the fact that the social network was initially considered more valuable than industry veteran Amazon.com. But no more. Facebook… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Here’s something we’ve never seen before. From khakis and door desks to a tuxedo on the red carpet, the transformation of Jeff Bezos from geek to fashionista is complete, apparently.… Read More
Do Seattle’s tech startups dream big enough, and do the region’s startup investors do enough to help make those big dreams happen? We explore those topics and more this week… Read More
As Facebook prepares for what promises to be a landmark IPO for the tech industry, the attention of Wall Street this week focused on one of the company’s signature features… Read More
Facebook’s announcement today that it will let users update their status to indicate that they’re organ donors might not have been the type of life-saving news that people were expecting. But… Read More
Not content with waiting six months or a year to find out who the world’s richest people are? Bloomberg is out today with a new “Billionaires Index” that will update… Read More
“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something. These days I… Read More
Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010 young adults between the ages of 16 to 25 to… Read More
Now that everybody is connected, things are about to get really interesting. That was the message from Mark Zuckerberg this year, through his words and actions. The Facebook CEO sees… Read More
The Federal Trade Commission this morning announced a proposed settlement with Facebook to resolve a series of charges over its privacy practices, simultaneously made public in an eight-count FTC complaint. Laying down… Read More
Mark Zuckerberg is more of a lover, than a fighter. After all, he doesn’t want to engage in an all-out war with the likes of Amazon.com, Apple or Google. Instead,… Read More
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and technology experience to change the world. But Sergey Brin and… Read More
Facebook’s Seattle engineering office will move to a new downtown location next year, twice the size of its existing space, to create room for additional growth beyond the 60 engineers… Read More
Mark Zuckerberg refers to Jeff Bezos by his last name only, like some guy from the dorm. The Facebook CEO thinks the Amazon CEO is “one of the great entrepreneurs… Read More
Upon hearing about the new Facebook Timeline feature today, my immediate reaction was: “Huh, isn’t that exactly what Seattle’s Intersect is all about?” After all, Intersect — like the Facebook… Read More
[UPDATED] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on stage at the company’s f8 conference for developers in San Francisco right now, and he just unveiled a new Facebook feature called “Timeline”… Read More