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Mark Zuckerberg

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 18: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is seen on a screen in Times Square moments after he rang the Opening Bell for the Nasdaq stock market board on May 18, 2012 in New York, United States. The social network site is set to begin trading at roughly 11:00 a.m. ET and on Thursday priced 421 million shares at $38 each. Facebook, a Menlo Park, California based company, will have a valuation exceeding $100 billion.

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  • Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV

    eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, Priscilla Chan .The documentary by CCTV was part of a series on Chinese police and high-tech crime-solving   Read more »

  • Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart

    founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to married on Saturday. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto , Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple. Zuckerberg took his company public in   Read more »

  • Highlights from Facebook's debut

    gain of 23 cents.Here are some highlights of the day, as gathered by reporters from The Associated Press:___STATUS UPDATEOn Mark Zuckerberg 's Facebook page, under recent activity, was this, posted shortly after 9:30 a.m. EDT:"Mark listed FB on NASDAQ ."___STAT   Read more »

  • Facebook stock falls flat in public debut

    see a penny from the offering, they are all intimately familiar with the company.Earlier Friday, the company's 28-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg , smiled as he rang the opening bell from Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park , Calif. Surrounded by cheering   Read more »

  • As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks'

    Facebook is one of the biggest business success stories in history. The site had 1 million users by the end of 2004, the year Mark Zuckerberg started it in his Harvard dorm room. Two years later, it had 12 million. Facebook had 500 million by summer 2010 and   Read more »

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About Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. As of 2011[update], his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion making him one of the world's youngest billionaires.

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