Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly on Friday evening, according to a Facebook post by his brother Robert. Goldberg passed away while on vacation with his family. The cause of death was not disclosed.
The sudden death of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, rocked the tech world this weekend.
Even a CNN commentator is noticing that the Obama economy doesn’t look good for millennials. And if we’re going to fix a big problem that stands to ruin the hopes of an entire generation, we need to think about big solutions, not just finger-pointing.
Despite all the prattle about large Silicon Valley Internet-driven companies battling to dominate the shift to autonomous electric vehicles, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, that Facebook won’t build cars. Rather, he said, the company is focused on actively championing mobile advertising, which is shifting how companies approach their brand marketing strategies.
Some of us dream about what the future will be like. Others have billions of dollars at their disposal to make it a reality. When one of these few ultra-rich technology folks opines about the future, my ears perk up.
Forbes released it’s annual list of the world’s billionaires and it shows that America is increasingly becoming a nation of self-made elite. Since Forbes started keeping track in 1984, the number of completely self-made billionaires (who grew from little wealth)
Suddenly, Barack Obama isn’t quite as popular with Silicon Valley execs as he used to be, primarily because they do not trust his efforts to increase the sharing of digital data between their companies and the federal government.
President Obama is hosting a cyber-security summit at Stanford University today, but three of the top tech companies in the United States won’t be represented there.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg talks a good game on free speech. But when Turkey’s government threatened to pull the plug on his Web site, over cartoons of Mohammed, Facebook caved. Defiance gave way to submission.
Only two weeks after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg made a show of support for freedom of speech following a terror attack by radical Muslims in France, Facebook began censoring images of Muhammad in Turkey–including the very Charlie Hebdo images Zuckerberg claimed to support.
A new study commissioned by Facebook claims the social media giant created 4.5 million jobs and added $227 billion in global economic impact.
There is very little concern in the Muslim-controlled world about giving offense to other faiths. Governments dominated by Islam tend to explicitly demote other religions to second-class status–if they’re lucky. Advocating other religions is a swift route to imprisonment or execution, as Pastor Saeed Abedini can attest
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty lobbying group praised Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) on Wednesday for voting against Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) amendment to block President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for certain DREAMers. FWD.us, Zuckerberg’s
Facebook, which has spent millions trying to get massive amnesty legislation that would include huge increases in the number of guest-worker permits that would lower the wages of tech workers, cannot cite any definitive evidence pointing to a shortage of
The tech industry is pressuring the White House to quickly enact President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. Linda Moore, the chief executive of TechNet, which has called for more high-tech visas and amnesty legislation on behalf of many Silicon Valley
After Democrats got shellacked in the midterms largely because Americans opposed President Barack Obama on illegal immigration, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty lobbying group declared that it is “go time” for amnesty legislation. FWD.us—which bought television ads for Sen. Jeanne
You know there is something seriously wrong with the American tech sector when it is lining up its best, brightest, and richest to support whatever executive action President Barack Obama takes in December to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Tech
SANTA MONICA, California — FWD.us, the immigration reform initiative founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, plans to launch a massive political push in December to support President Barack Obama’s planned executive action on immigration. On Tuesday evening, it brought roughly 100
National Journal took at look at campaign donations this cycle and details what it describes as ” some of the most influential political donors in tech this cycle” here. At the same time, with so many options available to inject money into political
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) for President? Al.com in Alabama recently posed this question: “How would an Alabama candidate do on the national stage?” There is absolutely no indication that Sessions is even considering entering the 2016 fray, but his championing of American
This article was originally posted on powerlineblog.com and written by John Hinderacker. In New Hampshire, Scott Brown has pulled into a statistical dead heat with incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. Brown is not a staunch conservative on every issue; if he
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is marshaling the conservative movement forces to the Granite State on behalf of former Sen. Scott Brown. Sessions, in a letter to the public asking them to
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen said Thursday he was boosting his donations to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to $100 million. Allen, who has made earlier donations to the health effort, said his latest pledge would include
On Monday, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his wife Priscilla, a doctor, “are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.” Zuckerberg and his pro-open borders lobbying group FWD.us spent a like
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A group associated with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty FWD.us is running ads for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) after Republican New Hampshire Senate challenger Scott Brown turned the race into a dead heat by running against illegal immigration. According to
