Mark Zuckerberg gets Married

  Mark Zuckerberg, 28, and his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan exchanged vows at a small ceremony in their backyard attended by less than 100 guests in Palo Alto, Calif., on Saturday, the May 19th May 2012.
  Guests thought they were coming over for a surprise party to celebrate Chan's graduation from UCSF medical school, where on May 14 she received her degree in pediatrics. However, Zuckerberg and Chan had been planning the wedding for more than four months, according to a source authorized by the couple. 
  Zuckerberg designed Chan's wedding ring, a simple ruby sparkler, himself. Guests dined family-style on food from the couple's favorite restaurants, Palo Alto Sol and Fuki Sushi. For dessert, they had Burdick Chocolate "mice" –whimsical chocolate treats made in the shape of mice – which the couple had on their first date.
  The couple, who met while attending Harvard before Zuckerberg – who is now worth more than $19 billion – started Facebook, have been dating for nine years. Zuckerberg, the subject of the movie "The Social Network", had been in the news all week for the highly-anticipated stock offering of his company.

   Facebook CEO $100M donation

 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced September 24, 2010 the creation of a new foundation called Startup: Education. Zuckerberg is seeding the foundation with the "initial gift" of $100 million to the Newark, N.J. school system. 
   "I feel very fortunate for the opportunities I've been given because of my education, including the chance to work with talented people and build a great company at such a young age," Zuckerberg said in a blog post. "Rather than waiting until later in life to focus on giving back, I've spent a lot of the last year researching and looking for the most impactful ways to improve education starting in America."
  Zuckerberg added that he decided to put his full support behind Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to help in their efforts to reform the schools in Newark. 'Newark has unfortunately become a symbol of public education's failure -- of a status quo that accepts schools that don't succeed,' he wrote. While the $100 million donation should help the more than 40,000 students in Newark, it's also expected to do some good for Zuckerberg's image

  The Social Network movie

  A movie "The Social Network" released on Oct. 1, 2010 detailing the creation of Facebook and Zuckerberg's rise to fame and fortune. According to published reports, the movie doesn't exactly paint the Facebook founder in an entirely positive light.  After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."   
 "The Social Network"  movie is based on the book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich which the book's publicist once described as "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage."  Just see the story of Facebook in "The Social Network"  movie   The story of Facebook

  Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

  Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York in May 14, 1984 in a Jewish family. He raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games .when he was in middle school. He joined Phillips Exeter Academy where he built a program to help the workers in his father's office. He also  built a music player named the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence .He attended Harvard College in September 2002, and where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi , a Jewish fraternity.

  Facebook launcing

  Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. The idea for Facebook came from his days at Phillips Exeter Academy, which, like most colleges and prep schools, had a long- standing tradition of publishing an annual student directory with headshot photos of students, faculty and staff known as the "Facebook". 
   Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California with Moskovitz and some friends and got a small office.They got their first new office during the summer of 2004. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum , Adam D'Angelo and Sean Parker launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog. It was a precursor to Facebook Platform applications.
  On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform , a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform. On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for users./p>

  Criminal investigation

  In June 2010, Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque of Pakistan launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes after a "Draw Muhammad " contest was hosted on Facebook. The investigation also named the anonymous German woman who created the contest.  On May 19, 2010, acebook's  website was temporarily blocked in Pakistan until Facebook removed the contest from its website at the end of May. 

  Facebook Popularity

  Facebook currently claims more than 500 million registered users worldwide, with 54 percent said to be logging on to the site daily. In Singapore, which has nearly three million users out of a population of five million. Asia is the fastest-growing region for new subscribers to social networking site Facebook despite restrictions on access in China, a senior company executive said on September 22, 2010.

  New Facebook App Places

  The new Facebook Application called Facebook Places was launched in Canada on Friday September 24 2010 and countries where it is available are increasing monthly. It is working, Facebook has said, to be in all countries where Facebook is available by the end of 2010. Facebook says it's new App will only tell who you want to know where you are and where you're going and once you've gone it erases your having been there.
 

  Facebook Credits for Indian users

  Social networking site Facebook launched  a payment system, ''Facebook Credits'', for Indian users, who could spend the virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website from July 01, 2011. A virtual currency, Facebook Credits is already popular among gaming enthusiasts in many other countries, including the US.  

   Facebook Credits enables fast and easy transactions across games on the social networking site and would benefit about 2.5 crore Facebook subscribers in the country. The users would be able to enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and spend safely across various games or applications they use on Facebook. "Starting July 1, we will require all social game developers on the
Facebook canvas platform to process payments through Facebook Credits," Facebook Platform Marketing Manager Deb Liu wrote on the company''s official blog in January. This will also help various brands, which use the medium of Facebook to retail them goods through their social pages.
   "Facebook Credits is currently used in more than 350 applications from 150 developers, representing more than 70 per cent of virtual goods transactions volume on Facebook," Liu had said. Facebook Credits would also offer incentives such as early access to product features, premium promotion on Facebook, premium targeting for ads and access to new co-promotion opportunities. Many developers such as Zynga, Playfish, CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate, PopCap and Arkadium have already adopted Facebook Credits for in-game virtual goods.

  Facebook boosts antivirus offerings to users

  Facebook has announced on July 11, 2012 that it is boosting antivirus offerings to its users, according to a report. Facebook is directing people to its new malware 'checkpoints' if users suspect their computers have been infected with a virus. Through a self-enrollment system, users can access free antivirus programs from McAfee or Microsoft. The company said that the new checkpoints allow users to be more proactive, The Los Angeles Times - reports. "Previously, if you suspected you may have malware installed on your device, you would either need to run anti-virus on your device or wait until Facebook identified an actionable threat," the company said in a post.
  "Now, with our new self-enrollment malware checkpoint, you will be able to proactively obtain your choice of a free anti-virus product to scan and clean your system. Facebook had created an "antivirus marketplace" in early 2012 where users could download trials of security software. The company also developed a system to notify users if their machines had become infected.

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