Mark Zuckerberg obtains restraining order against stalker

With great fame comes stalkers apparently. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasreportedlyobtained a restraining order against a Californian man, Pradeep Manukonda. The judge has ordered the man to stay at least 300 yards away from Zuckerberg, his sister Randi and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan pending a hearing later this month. According to the papers filed, Manukonda has attempted to “follow, surveil and contact Mr. Zuckerberg using language threatening his personal safety.” So concerneed is Zuckerberg that he reportedly fears for the safety of his long time girlfriend Priscilla and his sister Randi Zuckerberg....

2 min · 254 words · Catherine Rios

Mark Zuckerberg on oversharing, social design and Facebook revolutions

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just finished a mammoth 70 minute interview at theeG8 Forumin Paris. Speaking to Maurice Lévy, Chairman and CEO of Publicis Group, Zuckerberg also answered questions submitted by attendees and the public via (of course) Facebook. Hosted by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the eG8 summit has been thrashing out the political digital agenda of the day ahead of the G8 summit of world leaders tomorrow. Here’s a summary of what Zuckerberg said:...

4 min · 813 words · Maxwell Carter

MarkaVIP: A ‘flash sales’ platform for the Middle East

Founded less than a year ago by Jordanian-American entrepreneur Ahmed Al Khatib,MarkaVIPis one of the few exclusive online shopping clubs, bringing the concept of flash sales to a Middle Eastern audience. Al Khatib left the US in 2009, moving to the Middle East armed with 10 years experience in Silicon Valley, leaving behind his role as Director of Infrastructure and Operations at Zazzle. Inspired by the success of a private online shopping club in Russia, Al Khatib found the business model he wanted to bring to the region, saying: “Russia is behind the Middle East in terms of credit card penetration and e-commerce, but they were able to succeed, so it was an inspiration to me....

4 min · 781 words · Connor Miller

Marker.to lets you highlight annotate and share on the web

If you’ve ever wanted to share a section of a website, particularly content or text on the page and not an image, taking a screenshot and uploading it is probably too lengthy of a process and doesn’t provide enough context. Similarly, if you copy and paste text to send to someone via instant message, email, or tweet, the people on the receiving end lose the context of the text. EnterMarker.tofor Chrome, the easy to use highlighter for the web....

2 min · 394 words · Kaitlyn Harris

Marketers! ‘Zero-click’ SERPs will force us to get more creative

Marketers! ‘Zero-click’ SERPs will force us to get more creative Can’t fight Google for clicks, so play another game. What is zero-click search? Although the implementation of zero-click searching from Google has been a relatively recent development, the practice has quickly become the dominant form of search among users. So let’s begin by defining what exactly is; because it’s important to know our enemy. Credit:SparkToroAs SparkTorohighlights, the summer of 2019 saw the first time that zero-click searches overtook organic click and ad click searches....

5 min · 1028 words · Andrew Gomez
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