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Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News Facebook, founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of the hottest properties on the internet because of its rapid growth and the loyalty of its users. In the past, Zuckerberg has resisted selling the entire company, opting...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Mark Zuckerberg BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe.

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News Mark Zuckerberg Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for...

Tags: google, yahoo, myspace, foundation

[26 Mar 2008]

Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch

News Setting out his own stall on billionaire's row is tech's boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social networking site Facebook. Forbes speculates Zuckerberg "might just be the youngest self-made billionaire in history", adding 2008 is "a record...

Tags: microsoft, zuckerberg , yahoo, rich list

[06 Mar 2008]

Facebook founder talks 'Google-isation' and aggressive growth…

News Here Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg chats about Sandberg's new role at the company. Mark Zuckerberg: The reason why we did this is primarily to scale all of our different business operations. Facebook has announced it has hired six-year Google...

Tags: facebook, zuckerberg , google, role

[06 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble

Comment Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after receiving 50,000 complaints from users over releasing information about their internet activities without permission.

Tags: facebook, social networks, law, digital rights

[29 Jan 2008]

Poll: And the most over-hyped event of 2007 was...

News Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, gained the top spot in silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setters list - proof, if proof were needed, that the social networking website made a real impact last year.

Tags: hype, 2007, poll, tech

[03 Jan 2008]

Stories of the year

News AS Profile: Mark Zuckerberg He also cropped up in this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters list, along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - who topped the annual chart of tech's movers and shakers in October.

Tags: christmas, google, apple, revealed

[14 Dec 2007]

CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT

News Mark Zuckerberg Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

Tags: londonwaste, cio essentials, cio, person

[11 Dec 2007]

Oracle users demand better support

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere.

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year

News Mark Zuckerberg The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme...

Tags: nhs, richard granger, spokeswoman, health

[05 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches

News Mark Zuckerberg Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

Tags: cio essentials, graham yellowley, transport, adopt

[27 Nov 2007]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'.

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

Cost still main reason for outsourcing

News Mark Zuckerberg Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations going down the outsourcing route, despite unsustainable or unrealistic targets for savings. But companies lured into outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting...

Tags: outsourcing, gartner, savings, cash

[21 Nov 2007]

Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out

News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said...

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[21 Nov 2007]

Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource

News Mark Zuckerberg The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing arm of the De Beers family of companies...

Tags: virtualisation, unisys, outsourcing, contract

[20 Nov 2007]

CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping

News Mark Zuckerberg Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

Tags: colin cobain, tesco, cio essentials, cio

[20 Nov 2007]

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