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Mark Zuckerberg was born May 14 1984 in White Plains, New York. He was born into a comfortable, well-educated family, and raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry.
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Mark went to Phillips Exeter Academy, then he developed a music player that worked on artificial intelligence; the ‘Synapse Media Player’ could pick up its user’s listening habits.
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Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
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The site gradually expanded from college networks to include high school and work groups, and in September 2006, anyone with an e-mail address was allowed to join.
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In 2006, Zuckerberg astonished the world by turning down Yahoo's offer to buy Facebook for $1 billion.
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In 2007 Microsoft purchased a 1.6 percent stake in the company for $240 million.
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On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.[
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On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Beacon, a social advertising system that enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, eBay sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they listed items for sale.
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While at Harvard he wrote various softwares namely ‘Facemash’, a program in which the students could vote who was better looking. This was shut down on the grounds of privacy protection and being totally ‘improper’.
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Mark became the world’s youngest billionaire at the age of 24 and the 35th richest American.
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Mark Zuckerburg dropped out of Harvard during his sophomore year to devote all his time and energy to the project that he had initiated.
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August 2005, Zuckerberg had officially changed the company's name to Facebook, and after raising $12.7 million in venture capital, was ready to move the company to the next level.
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On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook. Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock, making it the social network's biggest acquisition to date (at the time). Instagram also gave Facebook another avenue for pushing ads.
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on May 19, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg tied the knot with his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan. Priscilla Chan is an American pediatrician and philanthropist.
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Mark is a generous donor to many charities. He has signed the ‘Giving Pledge’ an initiative that takes promises from the word’s billionaires to donate half of their wealth to charities during or after their life.
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Mark Zuckerberg won the CEO of the year at The 6th Annual Crunchies.
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Facebook launched stickers on mobile in mid-April, but now the web chat smiley button reveals a basket leading to the web sticker store where you can choose from 16 free packs to add to your repertoire.
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In Nov 6 2014, Facebook announced that the messaging feature will be removed from the main Facebook app. Users were forced to download Messenger.
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On April 27, 2015, Facebook introduced video calling in the Facebook Messenger app. The functionality was first launched in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, etc.
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Facebook just launched a new site full of resources for non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations looking to raise awareness about their causes and money for them. This new website is the next step in Facebook’s efforts to “build tools and products to empower [its] global community to do even more good on Facebook,” Facebook Social Good Marketing Manager Joanne Sprague wrote on the Facebook blog.
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Mark and Priscilla gave birth to a baby girl on November 30, 2015 , Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games.
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mark is working on normal-looking glasses than can do both virtual and augmented reality
