
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend Priscilla Chan


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AllFacebook would like to congratulate Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who announced on his timeline Saturday evening that he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are now husband and wife.

Social enterprise software giant Buddy Media Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lazerow was at no loss for words this morning when it came to dissecting Facebook’s impact on advertising.

$0.23: That was the share-price gain for perhaps the most-hyped initial public offering in history, as Facebook shares began trading a half-hour late, at 11:30 a.m. ET, at $42.05 apiece, well above the set opening price of $38, but pretty much went downhill from there.

With a soldering iron; a couple of capacitors, resistors, and relays from RadioShack; and quite a bit of dissembling and tinkering, a handful of Facebook software engineers (and friends) hacked the Nasdaq bell, earning themselves a full-fledged badge of geekiness.

What has this world come to when Facebook can’t even enjoy its initial public offering? On the eve of the long-awaited IPO, the social network was the target of a $15 billion class-action suit that consolidated 21 claims of invasion of privacy by tracking Internet usage.
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Recently, by way of sponsored stories in Facebook users’ newsfeeds, the social network has begun dipping advertising toes into its mobile endeavors. Smart move: According to new research released by NPD Group — which tracks consumer usage across broadband access, content, and devices — over the past six months, Facebook has firmly held onto its spot as the top-performing social-network on Google’s Android platform, MediaPost reported.

Private trading platform SecondMarket had been one of the primary sources for trading stock in Facebook prior to the social network’s initial public offering, and it created a farewell message in the form of an interactive timeline depicting the history of the stock.

Now that trading of Facebook stock is under way, CNBC launched a real-time tool that updates the worth of major stake-holders in the social network, based on its stock price.

Since upgrading for timeline and launching with open graph in April, Tumblr has seen its referral traffic from Facebook rise by more than 2.5 times.