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Microsoft takes stake in messaging services provider

News

Friday, June 01 2001 03:18 PM

Older users flock to Facebook

News Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub. Can CEO Zuckerberg's team give them reason to stick around?

Monday, August 06 2007 02:11 PM

Tags: Female, Socialite, Male, Traveller, Business applications, Personal applications, Web logs

Facebook's land grab in the face of a downturn

News The social-networking site is moving aggressively to sign up more users around the world while much of Silicon Valley hunkers down.

Monday, November 24 2008 11:29 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Growth strategies and tools, MySpace, Google Inc., Advertisement, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, SEC

Facebook ousts CFO Gideon Yu

News Facebook confirmed that CFO Yu will be leaving the company. Now the big question is, why?

Wednesday, April 01 2009 11:38 AM

Tags: Human resources, CFO, IPO, GAAP, EBITDA, Gideon Yu, Gideon, Facebook, financial, valuation

Khosla Ventures piles up US$1B for green tech

News Vinod Khosla is seeking out "science experiments" that address environmental problems and nabs former Facebook CFO and former CMEA investor to run two venture funds.

Wednesday, September 02 2009 09:56 AM

Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Investor, venture capital, venture-capital fund, finance, biofuel, green technology, biotechnology

Facebook names a CFO, at last

News David Ebersman, former chief financial officer of Genentech, takes over CFO role in September replacing Gideon Yu, who left this spring.

Tuesday, June 30 2009 08:43 AM

Tags: Domain names, Personnel management, CFO, venture capital, Gideon Yu, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, financial, finance

More cash for Facebook?

News Facebook-investor Accel Partners is pumping over US$1 bilion in two new funds; speculation is US$480 million of that may go to the social networking site.

Friday, December 12 2008 08:03 AM

Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Investments, Angel investing, BitTorrent, CFO, Accel Partners, social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook