Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot of issues to deal with right now, from PRISM and allegations of governent cooperation to questions about the company’s revenue. On Tuesday, he got to add stockholder questions to that list. Read more »
Rap Genius started out as a website that lets fans annotate rap lyrics, but it’s expanded to allow annotation of lots of different types of content. Cooking site Food52 has partnered with Rap Genius to let users annotate recipes, and Sheryl Sandberg annotated the first chapter of Lean In. Read more at paidContent »
The business and technology worlds are talking about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In. After reading it, we’re weighing in here. Read more »
The future of workplace equality and support for people to pursue families and careers obviously matters, Anne-Marie Slaughter said at SXSW. And in many ways that future rests with men? Read more »
Facebook gets into the picture with a News Feed redesign, Sheryl Sandberg wants you to Lean In, and what the heck is Hadoop? Read more »
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason fired, Google CEO Sergey Brin feels emasculated by phones but not by nerd glasses and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is putting an end to remote work. Plus Oscars & Fashion. Here is our take on the week that was! Read more »
If there was any question about the direction of Facebook going forward, Wednesday’s Q4 earnings put that to rest — Facebook is trying to be a mobile company, and making good gains so far in getting there. Read more »
Internet companies spend a lot of money lobbying governments to try and get what they want — and nowhere is the picture more complex than Europe. Here’s a quick look at who pulls the strings at federal and national levels. Read more »
Last night at a Google Women Techmakers talk I expected more talk about big problems bringing women into tech. What I got were complaints about the lack of female-sized T-shirts and the sense that the female speakers were treated well by their male colleagues. Read more »
Facebook announced Monday that it will add Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to the company’s Board of Directors, emphasizing Sandberg’s integral role in the newly-public company’s rising success. Read more »
The most highly anticipated initial public offering in today’s tech world is officially happening. Facebook filed S-1 documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday afternoon to raise a maximum of $5 billion. According to the filing, Facebook made $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011. Read more »
Yahoo apparently is looking to overhaul its board of directors,. Like me, many critics believe that have been negligent in their duties. I have a handy list of some great corporate leaders who can contribute positively and also help new CEO’ Scott Thompson’s quest for innovation. Read more »
Piazza, the social network that lets college students and instructors discuss material online, has closed on $6 million in a new Series A funding round. Piazza’s service is meant to counteract study group snobbery and eliminate students’ fear of asking “dumb” questions. Read more »
If Amazon opens an office in the Boston-Cambridge area as reported, it would boost a high-tech community that often feels overlooked and undervalued compared to Silicon Valley and Seattle. Amazon is recruiting engineers for an as-yet-unannounced Boston area venue slated to open in 2012. Read more »
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, said the social network and Google are nothing alike. Sandberg, a former Google VP, laid out some of the differences at a conference on Thursday, noting the focus and priorities of the two companies and how they go about developing products. Read more »
The profile of Sheryl Sandberg in the New Yorker this week purports to be about women in technology, but it’s also a glimpses into the evolving state of the workplace in an entrepreneurial and highly connected world -– the future of work for the professional class. Read more »
Disney’s board today nominated Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to be its thirteenth member. The nomination will be put to shareholder vote at the next Disney annual meeting, which is scheduled to be held March 10, 2010. Read more »
Facebook has been hit with public outcry over some of the changes it’s made to the social networking site over the years, but the real risk, according to comments made by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., on […] Read more »
Just yesterday, I was on camera saying how much I’m looking forward to the Palm Pre. With my first-gen iPhone contract up in July, I’m sure to get a new phone this summer. There’s still some open questions around the Pre, such as battery life and […] Read more »
