Zuckerberg Kept Instagram Negotiations Secret From Facebook Board Till The Last Moment

Many of us have been quite surprised at the sudden acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. The surprise came from the fact that Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO, had cited in the past that he planned to keep Instagram independent. However, a Wall Street Journal report now suggests that all it took for things to finalize between the companies was a weekend together by the CEOs of both companies at Zuckerberg’s house.

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Zuckerberg’s Income Tax To Be Lower Than Other Facebook Employees

Facebook is going to go public this year, and Mark Zuckerberg already has his future laid out for him. He plans to exercise stock privileges worth $5 billion of the $28 billion that is his part. The $5 billion will be treated as a salary, thus Zuckerberg will have to on his hands a tax as big as $2 billion. He’s probably going to have to sell stock to do it.

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Facebook IPO Filing: Who Are Largest Shareholders? Zuckerberg Owns 28 Percent

Facebook has finally filed for IPO after a lot of anticipation and has raised $2.4 billion in funding. It is hoping that it will be able to garner $5 billion through public offering. Analysts are expecting that when Facebook is finally approved to go public, it’s valuation can be as much as $100 billion! This puts everyone who has even a fraction of a percent of shares as a millionaire. So who are the top shareholders in Facebook? Let’s see.

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Zuckerberg’s Vietnam Trip Might Unblock Facebook There

The news are that Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is at Vietnam with his girlfriend to spend his holiday. Although the official Facebook sources say that he is there in his personal capacity, it is interesting that he chose Vietnam over all other destinations, a country where Facebook is facing many problems including blockage. So is this trip an attempt by him to set things right with Vietnamese government?

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Facebook ‘Poke’ Eventually Leads To Marriage Proposal

If you want to get someone’s attention in Facebook, then poke is simply the best option. And the very interesting news is, lately this Facebook poke feature has eventually led a man to fall in love with a total stranger and finally it ended up to marriage proposal before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Facebook To Launch Graph Search On Mobile ‘Pretty Soon’

Facebook Graph Search, which was launched last year in January, now allows users to search their friends’ photos and likes with ease. Last Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is going to launch a mobile version of Graph Search ‘pretty soon.’

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Facebook Considers Partnership With Samsung

Despite the relentless efforts of the folks over at Facebook, the social network hasn’t been very successful in garnering adequate revenue from the mobile platform. To change that, Facebook is now considering a partnership with Samsung. To that end, Mark Zuckerberg recently met Samsung’s President, Shin Jong Kyun.

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