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It truly is the most beautiful sign of nerd’s revenge when you see who’s made it onto Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list this year. Traditionally a classic, old Hollywood and luxury lifestyle magazine, Editor Graydon Carter identifies “the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs” as “The Age of Information gives way to a burgeoning Age of Technology.” For the second year in a row, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ranks number one and is still the youngest person ever to top the list....

Zuckerberg sold $280M worth of Facebook stock in the past month Mark Zuckerberg is selling more than $12M worth of Facebook stock every day As Facebook’s top shareholder, Zuckerberg’s wealth is tied to its stock To us, a quarter of a billion dollars in one month is life-changing. But to Facebook’s boy-wonder, it’s just the tip of the… Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s net worth is an enormous $109 billion,according to Bloomberg, making him the fourth richest person in the world behind Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos....

The Facebook Papers may be the biggest PR crisis the social media company has ever seen — and that’s saying something. I mean, this is a business that has been involved inelection fixingfor god’s sake. But if Zuckerberg is one thing, it’s an overachiever. This is a man not willing to rest on his laurels. Forever, he strives, on and on, for all time, striving. So what does a man of this calibre do when confronted withleaked Facebook documentsthat reveal the inner workings of the company?...

As we prepare for F8 tomorrow, all eyes are on Facebook. Recent changes have included a newsubscribe/unsubscribe model, similar to Twitter,smarter friend lists,new status updatesandGoogle+ style photos. Also,where’s the poke button? Today, Arielle Zuckerberg, a Junior Product Manager atWildfire Interactive, Inc.in the San Francisco Bay Area and the younger sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbergpostedher own thoughts on the recent Facebook changes we’ve all been groaning about. And much to our surprise, they weren’t all positive....

In a move that will confound many, Zunemade inroads against Applein the “online movie sell-though and Internet video-on-demand” business in 2010. In fact, Zune grew its market share from 11.6% in 2009 to 17.9% in 2010. In the same time period, Apple’s market share fell from 74.4% to 64.5%. Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, and Walmart split the lost Apple market dominance. According to Arash Amel, the IHS digital media research director (IHS executed the research that produced the numbers), the future is even stranger than current numbers suggest:...