SF News Mark Zuckerberg Married In Surprise Backyard Wedding Mark Zuckerberg and longtime med student girlfriend Priscilla Chan got major status updates today as the pair celebrated Zuck's becoming a bajillionaire and crashing the Nasdaq with a small, 100-person wedding in the
SF News Facebook Underwriters Prop Up Their Investment, Stock Closes Flat at $38.23 In the last minutes of trading today, a team of underwriters lead by fat cat brokerage house Morgan Stanley had to rush in to buy up shares of Facebook to keep their investment
SF News Internet Luminaries Weigh In On Facebook IPO It's been a couple of hours since Mark Zuckerberg pulled the fire alarm rang in Facebook's fresh new stock from Menlo Park this morning. While the media is predictably crapping their pants over
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's New Facebook IPO Status Update: Listed Company On NASDAQ OMG OMG OMG—Facebook's initial public offering is today, with sales of the social media stock going on sale at 8 a.m. PST. But founder Mark Zuckerberg and many others are becoming
SF News Facebook Names A Price: $38 Per Share Facebook will unleash its historic initial public offering at $38 a share. Billed as the largest internet IPO in history, the deal should garner the social networking mammoth around "$16 billion in proceeds,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mark Zuckerberg Gets The Musical Treatment Using snippets from RENT, Annie, Ragtime, Porgy & Bess, and a slew of other Broadway staples, CDZA created this mini musical revue dedicated to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And you now what? It's
SF News Steve Wozniak Would Invest In Facebook, No Matter The Price Famed Apple engineer/cofounder and living teddy bear Steve Wozniak said that, if he does plan on buying, he would purchase coveted shares in Facebook when it goes live this week, no matter
SF News New Social Site Sets Up Facebook Threesomes For Group Action On Tuesday, a promising new social media thingamajig will go live in San Francisco, one that set you and several of your followers or friends up on a date. It's called Grouper and
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Today in history: Bajillionaire mayor of Silicon Valley Mark Zuckerberg turns 28 years old. And just days before Facebook is expected to go public. While you're reeling about in a constant state of
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Will Save California! The messiah Mark Zuckerberg is poised to save California and its impending financial ruin. More or less. How so? Facebook will have to pay so very many millions in taxes after the initial
SF News The Chronicle Thinks Facebook Stock Could Be A Tough Sell There's a curmudgeony piece in the Business section of the Chron today titled "Facebook must convince investors of its value" and goes on to quote one analyst who tries to compare Facebook's upcoming,
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
SF News Facebook To Debut Around $30 Per Share, $80 Billion Valuation As Zuckerberg and Company gear up for their big debutante ball, when they'll spend the next two weeks meeting with investors and shopping their stock around, the company has released an estimated price
SF News Ladies-Only Street Brawl Erupts Over Facebook Posts A group of more than 30 women broke into a massive street fight in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights neighborhood on Sunday, reportedly because someone involved had pre-planned and posted details about the fight
SF News Facebook Backlash Heats Up It's now been over two months since the announcement of the Facebook IPO, after which some kind of press backlash was inevitable. But now that they just bought Instagram last week, things have
SF News Instagram Wanted TWO Billion From Facebook Deal Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the largest ever for the company, wasn't quite what the twentysomething cofounders of the photo-sharing site wanted. No, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger wanted more — $2 billion
SF News Facebook Buying Instagram For $1 Billion Writing in (where else) a status update from Palo Alto this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company has agreed to purchase San Francisco-based social photography app Instagram for a reported $1
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I No Longer Post Pictures Of My Kids On Facebook By D. Hanousek For a long time, I was one of those parents who posted adorable pictures and videos of my precious offspring on Facebook. On almost a daily basis, in fact. Since
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giant QR Code Painted On Facebook Headquarters' Rooftop Facebook honeybees recently painted a 42 foot wide QR code on the roof of the company's new headquarters in Menlo Park. Ta-da. Laughing Squid points out, "The QR code arose when CEO Mark
SF News Israeli President Shimon Peres Visits Bay Area Today President of Israel Shimon Peres will be in the Bay Area starting today to tour several noted technology companies and a temple to boot. Starting today, Peres will visit IBM's research and development
SF News Teens' Photos Stolen From Facebook, Placed On Porn Site Over in Massachusetts, authorities are warning girls that someone is stealing their "fully-clothed" photos from Facebook and placing them on an x-rated site. The incident happened to 17 girls at Bay Path Regional
SF News Those Drunk Photos You Deleted From The Internet? Facebook Still Has Them Facebook just doesn't know how to get over you, it seems. Three years after tech sites called out the social network for keeping copies of deleted photos on their servers, Facebook is still
Arts & Entertainment Callers On NPR Whine About How Facebook Has Ruined Their Lives Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
SF News It Happened: Facebook Files for IPO As expected, Facebook filed for its initial public offering today and the numbers are big: The securities filing places the social network's value somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the
