Facebook launched another initiative aimed at keeping teens safe on the social network, teaming up with the National Association of Attorneys General on a consumer-education program aimed at teens and their parents, elements of which will be hosted on the Facebook Safety page.
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was able to get a scheduled April 23 deposition in a civil suit against seven technology companies delayed until May 21 or 23, and now she is trying to get it quashed altogether.
Luxury accessories designer Michael Kors marked reaching the 5 million-like milestone with its release Wednesday of an exclusive, limited-edition shoe available only to fans of its Facebook page.
It’s been a rough week thus far for Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as Portfolio Chief Investment Officer Lee Munson called for new leadership at the social network, while posters depicting a beaten-up Zuckerberg started appearing around New York.
Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, may take the stand in an antitrust lawsuit stemming from her days as Google’s Vice President of Global Sales and Operations. Google, Intuit, Apple, Intel, Adobe, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are the subject of a civil suit. The companies are criticized for allegedly keeping wages lower by agreeing not to poach employees from each other.
Facebook has been a busy company in the past fiscal quarter, launching a redesigned News Feed and Timeline. The social netwoek will share how it did financially during its first-quarter earnings call May 1.
A war of words broke out between Katherine Losse, an early Facebook employee and author of The Boy Kings, and former Facebook Head of Public Relations Brandee Barker.
Facebook has made an internal hire to fill the chief technical officer position vacant since Bret Taylor’s departure last summer — Mike Schroepfer, formerly the company’s vice president of engineering.
“There are Facebook employees we’ve never met,” Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in response to a question about Yahoo’s recent announcement that it would eliminate telecommuting as an option for its employees, but that was one of the few times Sandberg discussed the social network during a fireside chat Monday evening with Time Deputy Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs to introduce her book that was released earlier that day, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
The Sheryl Sandberg frenzy continues unabated, as Facebook’s chief operating officer is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Time, and she spoke with the magazine’s Belinda Luscombe over a three-day period for the cover story.
