Kara Swisher in News on August 3, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving the company. IMHO, Facebook just got 100 percent less fun.
Liz Gannes in Social on June 14, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT
Joe Lockhart, who served as White House press secretary during President Bill Clinton’s eventful second term, will join Facebook as VP of global communications next month.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on March 27, 2011 at 10:09 pm PT
Facebook is trying to hire Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary and Barack Obama communications director. Gibbs, who left the White House in February, would report to Facebook’s Elliot Schrage as a member of his communications, marketing and public policy team, according to a
report by DealBook. Many executives from Silicon Valley–especially from Google–have gone to work for Obama, but this would be a significant move in the other direction.
Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 9:02 am PT
Pixazza, the Mountain View start-up that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images,” has added someone who might know a thing or two about it.
Former Googler Elliot Schrage–who is now Facebook’s global communications, marketing and public policy head–is joining the start-up’s board as a strategic adviser and observer.
Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2011 at 4:54 pm PT
Caryn Marooney, the co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s premier tech communications firms, OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook to lead its tech public relations strategy.
Marooney has actually led the Facebook account for OutCast, which she and Margit Wennmachers built and sold to Next Fifteen Communications Group in 2005 for over $10 million.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 11, 2011 at 2:06 pm PT
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have spent a lot of time in court, trying to thwart Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the rulings rarely seem to go in their favor.
But the Olympic rowers and one-time social networking entrepreneurs were back at it this morning in San Francisco for their biggest hearing yet, in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kara Swisher in News on July 7, 2010 at 11:15 am PT
You might think a huge target audience and golden marketing opportunity for a high-profile Hollywood movie on Facebook, titled “The Social Network,” would be the 500 million members of Facebook.
Maybe not so much.
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 29, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Facebook executives defended recent changes to the social-networking site that have upset some users and privacy advocates, telling reporters Wednesday that Facebook users simply need time to get used to the changes.
Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2010 at 10:10 am PT
So, BoomTown was in the Design Center Concourse in San Francisco for Facebook’s f8 developers conference.
There was a giant logo of an 8-ball looming over it all, which suggested a questioning mood.
Not at all!
Lots of stuff was announced, including ventures with partners like Microsoft.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 1, 2010 at 2:06 am PT
Facebook is beefing up its European sales team with a big name in social networking circles: It is adding former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields, who will runs sales and business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
