Mark Zuckerberg

Where are the STEM jobs?

2013-05-24 06:45:00

Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) crisis. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that he wants to...

Work crept into her life, until life disappeared

2013-03-13 09:01:00

Erin Callan was the face of Lehman Brothers in 2008 as it battled insolvency rumors. Fresh, pretty, smart and confidently articulate, she worked feverishly to try to talk nervous investors out of jumping ship. But when the company imploded in 2008,...

Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists

2013-02-21 07:27:31

Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...

Facebook: One billion served

2012-10-04 08:36:00

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced this morning that the massive social networking site had reached an awesome milestone: One billion active monthly users. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most...

Egg on Face(book)

2012-05-29 03:00:00

There will be investigations and already there are lawsuits over the rollout of Facebook's overhyped IPO last week, but no investigation is necessary into the reason for the outrage over the stock's rapid fall. It's called human nature. It is the same...

Should Combs accept UCLA's scholarship?

2012-06-03 19:51:36

He earned it, take it Chris Dufresne Los Angeles Times This ranks as one of the dumbest concocted "controversies" in the history of concocted controversies in new-world media. Of course rich man mogul "Diddy" Combs could pay for son Justin's...

Investor distrust likely to rise after Facebook IPO debacle

2012-06-04 16:47:00

Susan Fulton says about 100 clients of her Bethesda asset-management firm were "up for the risk" last month and invested a total of $1 million the day Facebook went public. "We bought it at the open, though we couldn't get confirmation on their trades,"...

UMBC president named among world's most influential leaders

2012-04-18 04:00:00

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the longtime president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been recognized as one of the...

Facebook promotes organ donations

2012-05-01 16:56:00

Facebook has launched a program to promote organ donation, which grew from a conversation between the social media company's chief operating officer and a Johns Hopkins surgeon already passionate about the cause. COO Sheryl Sandberg and Dr. Andrew M....

Milestones for old media and new

2012-05-18 21:37:00

You know that question of who, dead or alive, you'd want to invite to a dinner party? I know, I hate it too. It's hard enough to plan the right mix and menu for an actual gathering, and make sure you don't invite people with the kind of romantic,...

Not many 'likes' for Facebook IPO

2012-05-24 09:00:00

Kevin Kallaugher's depiction of new investors in Facebook essentially as being sheep waiting to be sheared ("Standing between Fortune and Chaos," May 20) was right on the mark. Despite a reported 900 million participants in Facebook, but with only $5 in...

Facebook adds organ donation status to Timeline

2012-05-01 08:05:00

Starting today, users of the world's biggest social network will be able to declare their status as an organ donor -- just as easily as declaring their likes and relationship status -- in a move that could have a big impact in the organ transplant field....

Fwd.us, started by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to lobby on issues important to tech firms, is drawing fire from some in the industry.

2013-05-07 18:10:12

Silicon Valley leaders, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, above, are becoming more engaged in the issues that directly affect their businesses.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg

2013-05-02 01:24:00