Mark Zuckerberg’s Very Big Week [PICS]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Very Big Week [PICS]
19/05/2012 ago by Christina Warren on Mashable

Mark Zuckerberg may have just wrapped up the biggest week of his life.

In the span of just seven days, the Facebook CEO has turned 28, taken his company public, become worth almost $20 billion and married his college sweetheart.

On the one hand, thinking about all of those life-altering events happening in such a short period of time makes us dizzy. On the other hand, it should make remembering anniversaries easier!

So if you’re Mark Zuckerberg, how do you share your eventful week with the world? You post about it on Facebook, of course!

We’ve rounded up some of the best photos of Zuckerberg’s very big week.

Mark, from all of us at Mashable, happy birthday, congrats on the IPO and mazel tov on the wedding! As one newlywed to another, I think you’ll agree it’s pretty awesome.

As for next week? Well, if it were us, we’d take a much-needed vacation!

NASDAQ Bell Ringing, Friday

Photo courtesy Facebook Product Designer Francis Luu

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NASDAQ Bell Ringing, Friday

Photo courtesy Facebook Product Designer Francis Luu

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NASDAQ Bell Ringing, Friday

Photo courtesy Facebook Product Designer Francis Luu

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Ringing the bell

Photo courtesy Reuters

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Zuckerberg et. al. after ringing the NASDAQ bell

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On the big screen, Times Square

Photo courtesy Reuters

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Zuck Celebrates with Colleagues

Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook

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Hugs Matt Jacobson

Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook

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Embracing Don Graham

Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook

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Married, Saturday

Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook

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Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich

Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich
19/05/2012 by Todd Wasserman on Mashable

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuck, who owns 503.6 million shares, is now worth $19.14 billion, though his personal fortune surpassed the $20 billion mark several times.

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Accel Partners/Jim Breyer

Breyer and Accel got a total of $7.7 billion, a nice payout, considering Accel only invested $12.2 million in Facebook in 2005, according to reports.

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Peter Thiel

Thiel's stake is now valued at $1.7 billion. A PayPal co-founder, Thiel was an early investor.

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Yuri Milner

Milner's firm DST Global Limited got $1.7 billion in cash in Friday's IPO and a paper value of $3.3 billion.

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Sheryl Sandberg

Sandberg didn't sell any shares Friday. She has a paper value of $72.2 million.

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Sean Parker

Parker also didn't sell any shares on Friday. His paper value of Facebook shares is now about $2.65 billion.

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Eduardo Saverin

The estranged Facebook co-founder has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion. He will also save about $67 million in taxes by renouncing his U.S. citizenship, according to estimates.

Image courtesy Eduardo Saverin's Facebook.

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Greylock Partners

Greylock owns 1.5% of Facebook, a stake now worth bout $1.6 billion.

Image courtesy Greylock Partners.

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Bono

No one knows what Bono will make from the IPO, but Elevation Partners, his investment firm, made about $1.5 billion.

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David Choe

Choe, a graffiti artist who painted the walls of Facebook's first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., was paid in 3.77 million shares of the company,which are now worth $144.2 million.

OK, so Facebook’s IPO may have seemed like a lot of sound and fury for 23 cents, but there will still doubtlessly be some celebrating in Menlo Park Friday night.

That’s because a lot of Facebookers got fabulously rich on Friday. True, it probably would have been an even more festive occasion if the stock had hit the $54 that Twitter had predicted, but Facebook’s measly gain on its first day of trading was still worth $115.7 million to Mark Zuckerberg.

Here’s why Zuck and some other big Facebook investors still have cause to pop the Champagne.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, AUDINDesign




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Twitter Announces NASCAR Partnership; More Deals to Come?

Twitter Announces NASCAR Partnership; More Deals to Come?
May 18, 2012 by Sam Laird on Mashable

Longtime informal social media buddies Twitter and NASCAR are making things official for next month’s Pocono 400 race. It’s Twitter’s first official partnership with a sports league, and may hint at a larger shift to come for the microblogging platform that has become a hit with sports fans in particular.

The Pocono 400 partnership will revolve around the #NASCAR hashtag, according to a joint press conference Twitter and NASCAR held Friday.

“During the race, we’ll curate accounts from the NASCAR universe and surface the best Tweets and photos from the drivers, their families, commentators, celebrities and other fans when you search #NASCAR on Twitter.com,” reads a post to the official company blog.

Omid Ashtari of Twitter’s business development team called the arrangement “part search algorithm and part editorial,” during Friday’s press conference.

More details about the partnership are expected to be revealed before Pocono happens on June 10.

Why NASCAR? Ashtari said one reason is races draw fans of dozens of drivers at a time, as opposed to just a couple teams, which will give Twitter a chance to experiment and learn rapidly about how to curate tweets and step into a more editorial role.

NASCAR fans are very active on Twitter and the league promotes social media use among its drivers. Driver Brad Keselowski made a classic Twitter sports moment earlier this year when he tweeted photos from inside his car on the Daytona 500 racetrack during a fire delay, gaining more than 100,000 followers in about two hours.

It’s hard not to see the NASCAR partnership as a harbinger of future official deals with other sports leagues, as well as a more general shift toward an editorial emphasis by Twitter. The company is looking for at least one sports fan to take on a new editorial role.

Sports are a natural starting point if Twitter wants to become more of a media company across the board. Pro sports moments dominate the tweets-per-second record book, and the network has become a go-to destination for breaking news and fan discussion. The company’s famous avian logo is even named after an NBA Hall of Famer.

Would you welcome editorial input from Twitter for major events? Let us know in the comments.




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LinkedIn quarterly profits send shares higher

LinkedIn quarterly profits send shares higher

Business-focused social networking website LinkedIn reported higher profits and said it added 14 million new members.

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It said net income for the fourth quarter was $6.9m (£4.4m), up from $5.3m in the same period of 2010. Revenue rose 105% to $167.7m.

Shares in the firm rose almost 7%.

Rival site Facebook, the world's largest social networking site with 800 million members, recently announced plans for a stock market flotation.

LinkedIn, which posts work biographies of individuals and lets them recommend friends and colleagues, had its own float last May.

"It was a fitting end to a memorable year in which we reinforced our position as the pre-eminent professional network on the web," said chief executive Jeff Weiner.

LinkedIn has more than 150 million members worldwide.

Meanwhile, shares in daily voucher website Groupon fell 14% after it reported an unexpected loss on Wednesday.

In its first set of results since listing on Nasdaq stock exchange in November, Groupon reported a net loss of $42.7m, when a small profit had been expected.

Sorxce: BBC