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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman and philanthropist.He co-founded the social media service Facebook, along with his Harvard roommates in 2004, and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.
Saverin and Zuckerberg meet fellow student Christy Lee, who asks them to "Facebook me," which impresses them. As Thefacebook grows in popularity, Zuckerberg expands the network to Yale, Columbia, and Stanford. Lee arranges for Saverin and Zuckerberg to meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who presents a "billion-dollar" vision for the company ...
Eduardo Luiz Saverin ( / ˈsævərɪn / SAV-ər-in; Portuguese: [eduˈaʁdu luˈis ˈsaveɾĩ] ⓘ; born March 19, 1982) [4] is a Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur and angel investor based in Singapore. [5] Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. [6] In 2012, he owned 53 million Facebook shares [7] (approximately 2% of all outstanding ...
Capital expenditures are now expected to rise as high as $40 billion for the year, up from a high of $37 billion. The check on Zuck's ambitions came as Meta shared a downbeat Q2 forecast ...
Mark Zuckerberg is Meta’s lowest-paid employee—at least on paper. The tech entrepreneur’s base salary for 2023 was a humble $1 dollar, while the median worker at the tech giant took home a ...
For years, Facebook and Zuckerberg resisted both buyouts and taking the company public. The main reason that the company decided to go public is because it crossed the threshold of 500 shareholders, according to Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon. Facebook reportedly turned down a $75 million offer from Viacom in 2006.
Facebook used a combination platform based on HBase to store data across distributed machines. Using a tailing architecture, events are stored in log files, and the logs are tailed. The system rolls these events up and writes them to storage. The user interface then pulls the data out and displays it to users. Facebook handles requests as AJAX ...
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.