Eight Mile Style, the music publisher of rap artist Eminem, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit Eight Mile Style referred to an ad called “Airplane,” which was created by Wieden + Kennedy agency. The “Airplane” ad promotes the new Facebook Home software. Eight Mile Style accuses Wieden + Kennedy of using background music that sounds the same as “Under the Influence” by Eminem and D12.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and Yammer founder David Sacks have stepped down from Mark Zuckerberg’s political lobbying group FWD.us, according to Reuters. FWD.us started as an immigration reform group with $20 million in funding from Mark Zuckerberg. FWD.us funded advertisements that praise Republicans who support the Keystone pipeline. The Sierra Club, Progressives United, and MoveOn.org were several out of many progressive groups that boycotted FWD.us as a result of the ads.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed in an SEC filing that he will now be taking a $1 salary as well as foregoing bonuses. Zuckerberg still has access to billions of dollars because last year he exercised 60 million stock options worth around $2.3 billion. Zuckerberg sold around half of the stock to cover his tax bill. He also still has another 60 million stock options that can be exercised on November 7, 2015.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, has started a new political group called FWD.us. The purpose of FWD.us is to focus on immigration reform and Zuckerberg wrote an editorial about it on The Washington Post. In Zuckerberg’s article, he called the U.S. immigration policy strange and said is unfit for today’s world. Zuckerberg was joined by many notable technology company executives for this initiative.
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In 1999 at the age of 15, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg designed one of his first websites using Angelfire.com as discovered by Hacker News users. The website is awkward, but is something you can expect from a 15-year-old. Zuckerberg referred to himself as “Slim Shady” and “Vader Fader.”
The city of Menlo Park, California has given Facebook permission to build a second campus that is west of the Bayfront Expressway. The second campus is near Facebook’s current headquarters on the other side of the road. Mayor Peter Ohtaki said “Congratulations” to Facebook officials earlier this week when the city council voted 4-0 to let the company build an additional campus. He added “Where’s the ‘Like’ button?” as quoted by the Mercury News.
Bill Gates (Microsoft chairman), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO), and Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO/Square CEO) has made a short video about a nonprofit focused on making programming classes more widely available in schools. The video promotes the non-profit Codes.org, an organization founded by Hadi Partovi. Only a few schools offer programming classes and this organization aims to fix this issue.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is excited about Google Glass. This past Wednesday, Zuckerberg met with Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The two are working with each other on the Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences and they met at the University of California-San Francisco Genentech Hall during a meeting with the press about it. The two informally discussed business around the Google Glass product in the corner of the hall. After talking to the media, Zuckerberg told Brin “I can’t wait to get my own.” Brin adjusted his own pair over Zuckerberg’s head at the meeting.
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