Forbes has come out with a list of the world's 20 youngest billionaires under 40. Here we carry eight billionaires under 30 who made their fortunes by the virtue of inheritance and hard work.
The Social Network is on its way to become a huge box office hit as well.
The Facebook chief said his top priority has always been his social mission of connecting people, building community and bringing the world closer together.
It is startling that Mark Zuckerberg has failed to convince so many in India about the merits of Free Basics.
Zuckerberg is considered to be on leave from the University, which he had left in 2004 to work on his social networking site.
Das faced allegations of opposing enforcement of hate-speech rules against Bharatiya Janata Party and other right-wing leaders. She was also accused of posting messages in support of the BJP for several years on a Facebook group of the company's employees.
TMC MP writes to Mark Zuckerberg, raises issue of Facebook's alleged bias towards the BJP.
Google's India-born head Sundar Pichai has come out in support of Muslims saying it is important to have a diverse mix of voices.
Seattle-based research firm PayScale said Facebook employees are the most satisfied and the Mark Zuckerberg-led company had the lowest median age - 26.
Some organization and countries have changed the online world for better or worse.
A record-breaking year for the world's billionaires.
The personal fortune of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has doubled to $14 billion after his social networking site got a huge cash injection from Goldman Sachs.
'Our proactive detection rate for hate speech in India is close to 97 per cent -- which means that of the hate speech content we remove, we detect 97 per cent of it proactively, even before anyone reports it.'
Applauding Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for the reported pledge to give majority of his wealth to philanthropy, well known Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has called upon India's billionaires/millionaires to make similar pledges.
Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is attempting to become the one-stop media hub for its 750 million users.
At 21, Kylie Jenner became the youngest billionaire thanks to her make up empire.
Find out what Zuckerberg means by giving give Facebook's users 'more control' over what they share.
Here are a few issues that are most talked about Modi's California visit
Mark Zuckerberg is all set to make his acting debut with a season 22 episode of The Simpsons.
This will be Modi's second US visit after he was elected PM.
Following the removal of four extremely popular Islamic pages from the website, the Muslim community has expressed anger and a template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accused the website's founder Mark Zuckerberg of 'ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5 million Muslims', the Daily Mail reported.
The founder of the social networking site was named Person of the Year for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives", according to the magazine.
The judge ruled that the 2008 settlement that gave $65 million to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in cash and stock still stands.
In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined 'a pretty big overhaul' and billed it as a dramatically simpler way for people to control who sees information they post on the online social networking service.
Sites like Facebook and Orkut may be great for connecting with others, but they also provide a sure-fire way for broadcasting intimate details about you.
The proposed donation would be by far the largest publicly known gift by Zuckerberg, also the chief executive of Facebook, whose fortune was estimated last year at USD two billion by the Forbes magazine.
The world's biggest social network Facebook wants to connect more people to internet in India which accounts for the third largest online user base globally after China and the US but has a very low internet penetration growth rate.
From Assange to Zuckerberg, meet the men who you can love or hate but simply cannot ignore.
The social media giant's CEO announced that it will change how it shares data with third-party apps.
Meg Whitman is the wealthiest women in the technology sector.
Zuckerberg leads the pack with a net worth of $47.1 billion.
The net worth of India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, dropped 28 per cent, or USD 300 million a day for two months to USD 48 billion as on March 31 due to the massive correction in stock markets, a report said on Monday. The chairman and managing director of the diversified Reliance Industries saw his wealth decline by USD 19 billion (app Rs 144,400 crores) in the February-March period, taking his global ranking down eight places to 17th, the Hurun Global Rich List said.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the second place.
With 1.35 billion users of its Internet social network, Facebook Inc would rank as the world's second-most populous nation if it were a country.
Others on the list include Warren Buffett and Astrid Menks.
More than 350 moguls lost their billionaire status this year. Some will make comebacks, while others will have to live with being a mere millionaire.
'I told myself, I will be 23 next year. Why can't I be a billionaire too?'
'There is no doubt at all that Jio's disruption of the mobile broadband market was a turning point for India's digital economy.'
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