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Who could not be moved by the fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finished his bountiful week by getting married?

The churlish might have whined that his fooling his friends into thinking that this was merely a graduation party for his fiancee was not exactly open and connected. Indeed, it surely showed a peculiar yearning for privacy.

However, I wanted to go to his Facebook page and see what his fans had written. Honestly, it was quite dull. Reams and reams of congratulations, with nary an unkind word.

Suddenly, I looked to the right to see that, even on this … Read more

By almost any standard, Mark Zuckerberg has had a week to remember. Yesterday, he started his day off by ringing the Nasdaq bell and taking his social-networking company public, raising $16 billion in the process. Earlier in the week, his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan graduated from medical school. And today, just for good measure, the two shocked a bunch of friends and family with a surprise wedding in the Facebook CEO's backyard.

A look at Zuckerberg's Facebook page reveals that he is now "Married to Priscilla Chan." That was not the case yesterday, the day that … Read more

Facebook knows mobile is its Achilles' heel, but I didn't expect the company to take such aggressive actions to solve its mobile problem.

The social network admitted to the weakness earlier this month when it amended its IPO filing. "If users increasingly access Facebook mobile products as a substitute for access through personal computers, and if we are unable to successfully implement monetization strategies for our mobile users, or if we incur excessive expenses in this effort, our financial performance and ability to grow revenue would be negatively affected," the company explained in its amended S1.

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Finally, Facebook goes public.

You can follow our live coverage right here, so check back at 5:30 a.m. PT/ 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday when we kick off the live blog with some pre-trading chatter.

On Thursday afternoon, Facebook set the price of the IPO at $38 a share, giving the massive social network a market value of $104 billion out of the gate, more than the stock market value of Amazon and about half that of Google's. And at that price, Facebook has raised $16 billion by selling 421.2 million shares.

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If you want to know where the most famous hoodie-wearer in the world will be Friday morning, he'll be ringing a bell in Hacker Square.

Hacker Square is more or less the center of Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, and features a giant "HACK" in the cement that's large enough to be seen from space. The man with the hoodie is, of course, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. At 6:30 a.m. PT tomorrow, a source told CNET, Zuck will stand by a big crane in the square and ring a ceremonial bell in time … Read more

Facebook is on its way to 1 billion users with an IPO around the corner. Not bad for a company with its roots in a Harvard dorm room.

But how did it achieve its grip on the global market? New findings from Nielsen offer a peek into some key milestones for the social network.

Facebook's user base currently numbers more than 900 million. But it's also one of the most visited Web sites in the world, according to Nielsen.

The site received around 152 million unique visits from people in the U.S. in March, which means that … Read more

Dear Facebook:

America is over you and your hot IPO. Already. We're a fickle bunch.

Half of us think you're a fad, particularly the older folks, according to a poll from the Associated Press and CNBC. General Motors just announced it was going to stop advertising with you because it couldn't see how its Facebook ads were being effective. And the rest of us, well, we're still rip-snorting angry that co-founder Eduardo Saverin is giving up his U.S. citizenship so he doesn't have to pay taxes on the billions he's about to make … Read more

There's an interesting, detailed piece in Business Insider this morning about the various fireable infractions that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg felt co-founder Eduardo Saverin committed during Facebook's launch.

While TheFacebook was moving out of the Harvard dorm room where it started, Saverin, who had bankrolled some of the company's expansion, was responsible for the money side. Zuckerberg felt he himself didn't have a head for business, and left it to Saverin.

But when the social network began to take off, and Zuckerberg got into money-raising talks with California investors, Saverin -- who had taken an internship … Read more

Facebook has more 900 million users as it prepares to launch a new IPO this week. But a fair number of people aren't too excited about the popular social network.

Half of the 1,000 people polled by the Associated Press and CNBC called Facebook a passing fad. A majority of those surveyed (51 percent) have a favorable impression of the company, while 23 percent have an unfavorable opinion.

But in light of the upcoming IPO, the survey focused more on Facebook's value as an investment.

Half of those polled believe the initial asking price is too high, … Read more