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Mark Zuckerberg born on May 14 1984. His Father Edward Zuckerberg is Dentist by profession.

His Mother Karen Zuckerberg Is Psychiatrist by profession.

He has three Sisters Randi, Donna and Arielle .


He got married to Priscilla Chan in 2012. He lives in Palo Alto, California and is Jewish by religion. He is a American computer programmer and Founder of FACEBOOK.

Mark started using computer and writing software when he was in middle school. Software developer David Newman was hired to tutor him privately. Newman Call him prodigy , adding that it was tough to stay ahead of him. He built a program called ZuckNet for his fathers Dental clinic. During high school years under Intelligent media group he build a music player called the Synape Media Player Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit mark but they failed to do so.

By the time he joined the Harvard, he was already known as Programming Prodigy . In Second Year, he wrote a program called CourseMatch . After Short time later, he came up with different Program Called Facemash . This Site went over a Weekend, but next Monday morning the college shut it down.

Following Semester in January 2004, Zuckerberg started writing codes for new site.
and On February 4, 2004. He launched Thefacebook originally located at thefacebook.com.

Facebook was founded by Mark and his 3 Friends Eduardo, Chris and Dustin.

He created Facemash which was a his Version of Popular website Hot or Not exclusive for Harvard Students. To get Pictures, Mark hacked Harvards private network.
Facemash was shut down and Mark Zuckerberg was set to be expelled. Idea of Facebook came in his mind From Face Books which many universities offer to their students. And Finally in February 2004 Facebook was officially launched. The following year The Facebook became Facebook.

Peter Thiel was the first Investor in Facebook. He invested $500,000 in the company. Mark Zuckerberg is having Maximum share of 28.2% in the company, which amounted to $24 Billions. There were 500+ Investors. Most of them were from Technology Firms. These are Few Investors in company
Name Accel Partners Digital Sky Technology Microsoft Li-Ka Shang Divya Narendra Amount $8.5 Billions $4.6 Billions $1.36 Billions $680 Millions $18.7 Millions Percent of share 10% 5.4% 1.6% 0.80% 0.022%

Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) on May 18, 2012.

Facebook Valued its stock at $38 a share, pricing the company at $104 billions.
Facebook Secondary Market share valued at $43.95 as on 8th september, 2013.

In 2007 Mark Zuckerberg was named Youngest Billionaire. In 2009, Facebook was Awarded the Product Of 2009 by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was Awarded as 2010 Person Of the Year By TIME magazine..

In 2011, Mark Zuckerberg was the Top guy in Fortunes 40 Under 40 List.
Mark Zuckerberg Win CEO of The Year At The 6th Annual Crunchies on 31st January 2013.

2004 : Welcome to thefacebook.com

2005 : The original Facebook Profile

2009 : Facebook Homepage

2010 : Profile gets Facelift

2010 : Facebook Pages

2011 : Video chat

2011 : Hello Timeline!

2011 : Facebook subscribe

2012 :Facebook Acquired Instagram

The founders of ConnetU (Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss & Divya Narendra) filled an Law suit against Mark Zuckerberg for copying their Idea.

Facebook is blocked in many counties like China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria and Bangladesh on different basis. On August 19, 2013 Facebook came into news when Khalil Shreath Hacked Mark Zuckerbergs Facebook account and posted on his wall. About the Bug which he found.

Facebook for Networking.


Facebook as source of information & news. Business Promotion Entertainment Social protest

Breach to privacy and personal info. Threat of viruses! Fake Facebook profiles. Scams. Facebook is addicting.

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