Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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Facebook founder, Zuckerberg meets Nigerian founder of secret Facebook group
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday received Nigeria’s Lola Omolola, founder of a secret Facebook group called Female in Nigeria (FIN). TheNewsGuru reports that FIN was founded in 2015 by Omolola, a movement of women focused on building compassion and providing support for one another, with the goal of having up to 1000 members in…
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Video: Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement 2017 speech
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Thursday returned to Harvard, where he dropped out, to give commencement speech to the class of 2017 and received an honorary doctorate degree, Doctor of Laws, in the process. In his ‘Purpose’ speech, Zuckerberg touched on several issues ranging from politics and the need to build a better world. Here…
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Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement 2017 speech
President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world, I’m honored to be with you today because, let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it’ll be the first time I actually finish…
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Facebook founder, Zuckerberg returns to Harvard, bags honorary doctorate degree
Mark Zuckerberg, who famously dropped out of Harvard in 2004 to move to Silicon Valley to work on a little website called The Facebook, on Thursday returned to give commencement speech to the class of 2017 and received an honorary doctorate degree in the process. “If I get through this speech today, it will be…
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Checkout how people reacted after WhatsApp went offline globally
Last night, May 4, 2017, popular messaging app, WhatsApp had technical issues and was offline for over 2-hours in some parts of the world. It was unprecedented, no one saw it coming and the world panicked. The service has since been restored and WhatsApp is yet to make an official statement as to what led…
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Zuckerberg partnership builds scientific pre-publishing platform, bioRxiv
With the view to cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced a partnership to support and further build bioRxiv, a platform for scientists to pre-publish research works. Announcing the bioRxiv partnership, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook and co-founder of the CZI, said “I’m excited the Chan…
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Facebook founder to visit every State in the US
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Facebook, has revealed a personal challenge to travel across the United State (US) in 2017, and meet people in every State. The news was released in a Facebook post with Zuckerberg saying “My personal challenge for 2017 is to have visited and met people in…
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Facebook bans Neptune statue photo for being ‘explicitly sexual’
Facebook has come under fire for blocking a photograph of a bronze statue of Neptune in Italy. Designed by Jean Boulogne, better known as Giambologna, the mid-sixteenth century fountain of Neptune stands in the Piazza del Nettuno in Bologna. https://www.facebook.com/ElisaBarbari/photos/pcb.1224554254247824/1224553664247883/?type=3&theater Facebook appeared to have taken offense at the disrobed Roman god, asking Italian writer…