Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 Billion

Social network giant Facebook has bought instant messaging service WhatsApp for a wallet-busting $16 billion (£9.6bn). The hugely popular phone app allows users to send messages using internet connections, avoiding SMS charges. WhatsApp has 450m monthly users - 70 per cent who use the app daily - and claims to register 1m new users every day.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg weds

Yesterday, Saturday, 19^th May, 2012, Facebook’s co-founder and Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. This news was broken on Facebook.

"Mark added a life event to May 19, 2012 on his timeline: Married Priscilla Chan," the page's activity feed said. And their relationship status on the social networking site changed to ‘Married’, before he posted the marriage pix on his wall.

Happy 28th Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chairman and chief executive.

It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes... while they were students at Harvard University. His wealth is estimated as $17.5 billion dollars and he's one of the youngest richest billionaire in the world now.