Mark Zuckerberg
TikTok exec: We’re not a social network like Facebook, we’re an entertainment platform
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters TikTok is fully aware that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is retooling the Facebook and Instagram apps to be more like its own popular short video service. But TikTok has no interest in […]
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Cramer: 15 things I learned about the changing tech sector from my week in Silicon Valley
It’s been more than two years — going back to the start of the Covid pandemic — since I have been able to do a deep dive of Silicon Valley. But over the past week I was able to reconnect with many executives, CEOs, and market insiders in CNBC’s San Francisco bureau, and I was […]
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Javier Olivan, who’s replacing Sheryl Sandberg at Meta, built his career on international expansion
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., right, pauses while speaking as Javier Olivan, vice president of growth and analytics at Facebook Inc., looks on at Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Telmex Foundation annual event for scholarship students in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. Zuckerberg said he’s willing to spend whatever it takes […]
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Sheryl Sandberg was Facebook’s adult in the room, but it’s always been a Zuckerberg production
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., right, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, left, applaud after remotely ring the opening bell for trading at the Nasdaq MarketSite from the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California Zef Nikolla | Facebook | Bloomberg When Facebook held its Nasdaq debut 10 years ago, the prospectus […]
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Facebook’s transformation to Meta will be complete with new ticker symbol on June 9
The Meta Platforms Inc. pavilion on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, May 23, 2022. Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is about to shed the last of its old corporate name. The Facebook-parent company announced Tuesday that it will change its stock ticker symbol […]
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DC AG sues Meta CEO Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announces a civil lawsuit against extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, over the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Capitol in Washington, December 14, 2021. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]
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Facebook’s IPO 10 years later — new name, same CEO and a familiar problem
A decade ago, Facebook told the public markets that it was pouring money into smartphone apps because mobile usage was key to the company’s growth, even though it did “not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue” at the time. That was in the prospectus for its Nasdaq debut, which took place ten years ago Wednesday […]
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Elon Musk invited to discuss $44 billion Twitter deal in UK Parliament
Musk’s plan to buy Twitter has worried policymakers around the world. Joe Skipper | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been invited to testify in the U.K. Parliament about his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Julian Knight, who chairs the parliamentary committee on digital, culture, media and sport, sent Musk a letter requesting […]
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‘This is what you live for’: Top tech analyst says buy the dip on these high-quality stocks
Investors can get “high quality assets that are trading 20% off,” tech analyst Mark Mahaney says, revealing his top picks. Source
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Meta shares surge 15% after Facebook parent beats earnings estimates
Expectations were already low going into Meta’s latest quarterly results, which were a mixed back. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Facebook parent company Meta continued to rally Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected profit in the first quarter. Meta reported earnings per share of $2.72, higher than the $2.56 expected by […]
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