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  • Facebook founder on apps, flak and cold hard cash

    At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.

  • Facebook valued at $10bn as Microsoft opens wallet

    Microsoft is in talks to acquire five percent of social-networking site Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Facebook cherrypicks new COO from Google

    Facebook has announced that it has hired a new chief operating officer to replace the outgoing Owen Van Natta. Starting on 24 March, veteran Google employee Sheryl Sandberg will take on the executive role at the social network.

  • We will buy 20 companies a year: Ballmer

    Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense.

  • Is the Internet the new operating system?

    Sites like Facebook and Google, which have evolved into Web platforms, are the wave of the future, according to a panel of top executives at this week's iMeme: Thinkers of Tec conference.

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