mika
Do you prefer Mika when he sings in French or in English? "elle me dit" is Mika's first single in French and it has been a big hit... in France. Mika was born in Lebanon but he lived in England and France as a boy. Mika says there will be more catchy pop songs in French on his new album, The Origin of Love.
mark zuckerberg
The geek who changed the world
Mark Zuckeberg created Facebook in 2004, aged 19. Today he is the second younges billionaire in the world.
Thanks to the success of Facebook, Mark Zuckeberg has a personal fortune of around 14 billion dolars. But the 27-year-old businessman has a very modest lifestyle. He wears jeans, T-shirts and trainers, works constantly and is studying Chinese.
ZUCKEBERG was a computer prodigy from a young age: his friends did illustrations which he transformed into computer games. he also showed a special talent for Latin, Ancient Greek and fencing.
HE LEFT NEW YORK in 2002 to go to Harvard, an elite American university, to study psychology and computer science. He was shy and people thout he was a geek. He started to develop social network sites for fun.
ZUCKERBERG HACKED INTO Harvard's computer system on 20 October 2003. He copied private photos of university students to create a site called Facemash. On the site, students could see photos and vote for the people they found most attractive. The site had 450 visitors in four hours, but Harvard shut it down...and Mark Zuckerberg was almost expelled!
HE WAS NOT DISCOURAGED.
Zuckerberg understood the demand for a website to share personal information with friends. So in 2004, he launched Facebook from his university bedroom. Within 24 hours, 1200 Hardvard students had signed up. After one month, more than half of the student population at Harvard had a Facebook profile.
FACEBOOK SOON ARRIVED at the other universities. Zuckerberg left harvard without graduating- he wanted to spend time developing his site. In just seven years, facebook changed the world.
WITH 800 MILLION USERS, facebook is now the biggest website on the planet. Zuckerberg wants to keep facebook users on the site for longer by sharing music, films and personal information in the Timeline.
ZUCKERBERG has had problems with his site. Three Harvard students accused him of copying their ideas to create Facebook, and won a lawsuit , against him in 2008. Zuckerberg, a private person, has also been criticized for Facebook's principales: making private information public...
THE YOUNG BILLIONAIRE doesn't care about this, though. He also says that he didn't just want to make money. "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open", he says.
FACEBOOK FOR YOUR PHONE has helped Zuckerberg complete his mission... and made even omre money for his company. But like microsoft's bill gates, zuckerberg promises to give half of his money to charity. With everything he does, Mark Zuckerberg continues to change the world...
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