These Tech CEOs are Stinking Rich and Eligible Bachelors

The only thing cooler than earning money would be getting more money. Money and fame never usually come for free, but the world of technology has proved this notion wrong, especially for the young.

Here are some tech entrepreneurs who have everything- they are filthy rich, smoking hot and are very eligible bachelors.

1. Blake Alan Ross- Mozilla Firefox

Age: 26

This American software developer started the Mozilla Firefox project along with Dave Hyatt. He was one of the techies on the Rolling Stone magazine's 2005 hot list, and is evaluated at $150 million dollars. Thanks to him, web browsing has seen a gargantuan boom with a success story made in the free, open source platform as of January 2012, Firefox had approximately 25 percent of worldwide usage share of web browsers. 

2. Naveen Selvadurai- Foursquare

Age: 28

Prior to co-founding foursquare with Dennis Crowley, Selvadurai was Lead Architect at Socialight and a Senior Software Architect at Sony Music Entertainment. He has also worked with work with Lucent, Nokia and Sun Microsystems in the past. Tamilian by birth, Selvadurai is worth about $80,000,000. He is reported to be leaving Foursquare this month.

3. Arash Ferdowsi- Drop Box

Age: 26

This Iranian-American entrepreneur co-founded Dropbox, a cloud storage startup in 2007 with fellow MIT student Drew Houston. Ferdowsi dropped out of college to focus on business. His networth is said to be $400 million. In spite of growing competition, Houston and Ferdowsi’s project has been constantly growing -- 300 million files are saved to Dropbox every 24 hours, which is more than the number of tweets posted to Twitter in the same timeframe. Ferdowsi is an avid Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) player.

4. David Karp- Tumblr

Age: 25

Karp founded Tumblr, the microblogging platform and social networking site in 2007. 2010 saw him named as one of MIT’s 35 innovators under the age of 35. What is interesting about this young techie is the fact that when he was 17, he moved himself to Japan and earned his living while working as a CTO for a company based in New York! He’s worth $40 million in funding, and although it’s not a huge number compared to the rest, this energetic entrepreneur deserves his place on this list. And although he has a girlfriend (i.e. goal-keeper) named Rachel Eakley, doesn’t mean one can’t try scoring goals, right?

5. Dustin Moskovitz- Facebook, Path

Age: 27

Moskovitz was credited with being the world’s youngest billionaire after co-founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Savarin, and Chris Hughes. He left Facebook in 2008 to found Asana, a “collaborative information manager” that one can use on the internet.  His net worth is said to be $7.6 billion through a stake of 7.6 percent in Facebook.

6. Matthew Charles Mullenweg- Wordpress

Age: 28

This 28 year old billionaire is best known for his development of Wordpress, the free and open-source web software that is used by around 15 percent of the internet and is managed by the WordPress foundation now. He is also a musician, having learned to play the saxophone and the keyboard. His net worth stands at $40 million.

7. Sean Parker- Napster

Age: 33

This 33 year old American technology entrepreneur is credited with being the co-founder of Napster, and was most recently the Founding President of Facebook. He is worth $2.1 billion and is considered to be a genius in spite of the lack of a formal education. He was accustomed to hacking as he was a child, one interesting incident from his life had him hacking into a Fortune 500 company when he was 16. Unfortunately his dad unplugged the computer and he was unable to log out. He was tracked down by the FBI, and was sentenced to community service.

8. Jack Dorsey

Age: 35

This software architect from the US is most famous for his creation of Twitter, the social network that focuses on microblogging. He too was on MIT’s TR35 list of innovators. He’s estimated to be worth $490 million.

9. Yoshikazu Tanaka- Gree

Age: 35

Tanaka founded Gree in 2004, which is now Japan's largest social networking site. . He started out at Sony, and then moved on to work for Hiroshi Mikitani (the billionaire founder of online shopping site Rakuten). His worth is estimated to be $2.2 billion, and he’s reported to have his sights set on building a Gree office in California’s SiliconValley. Should  Zuckerberg watch out? Only time will tell.

10. Kevin Rose

Age: 35

Rose co-founded Digg (a popular news website that competes with reddit), Revision3 (an Internet television network that creates, produces and distributes web television shows), Pownce (a micro-blogging and file-sharing site), and Milk (a company that aims to solve problems of the mobile web, according to TechCrunch).

11. Teddy Sagi

Age: 39

Apart from being the founder of gaming site Playtech, Sagi who is 39, also owns several e-commerce services, an e-payment company, instant messenger service Messenger Plus and commercial real estate and a number of hotels in Europe. He reportedly bought the most expensive home in Israel in December for about $35 million. His net worth is about $1.2 billion.

Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/news/technology/These-Tech-CEOs-are-Stinking-Rich-Smoking-Hot-and-Eligible-Bachelors-nid-110239-cid-2.html

FACEBOOK WILL NOT END ON MARCH 15th!

NEW DELHI: If you spend a better part of your life living out of Facebook, rejoice. Facebook won't be closing on March 15 after all. Surprised? Read on ...

More than one million people have already fallen for a hoax that claims that the popular social networking site will be shutting down on March 15.

According to IT security firm Sophos, a bogus news story published by the "Weekly World News", said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had told reporters that "managing [Facebook] has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness."

Some panic-stricken Facebook users and mischief-mongers spread the story far and wide across the internet in no time. Although Facebook debunked the hoax via its Twitter account late on Sunday, users still continue to pass the bogus messages onto their online friends.

The "Weekly World News" article went on to quote another company official, Avrat Humarthi, vice-president of technical affairs at Facebook, as saying "After March 15th the whole website shuts down. So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won't be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business."

Sophos said that many people would not believe the report, which comes from a newspaper that has previously reported George Clooney is running for president and that alien spacecrafts will visit earth in 2011. However, it only takes only a small number of people to think it might be possible to turn a joke of a news story into an internet hoax as has been proved many a times in the past few years.

"I certainly wouldn't disagree that users would be wise to have their own backup of their photographs, rather than rely on Facebook -- but it's nothing more than a scare to suggest to people that they have to do it before March15th because Facebook is going to close down," explained Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

"There's an important lesson here -- don't believe everything you read on the internet, and think twice before you pass a story on to your friends."

Although a hoax is not as serious as malware worming its way between users and stealing information, it's still a nuisance, clogging up communications, increasing the overall level of spam and perhaps leading people to make decisions for the wrong reasons.

A number of Facebook users had earlier last week reported fallen prey to another viral scam -- My 1st St@atus -- which was designed to earn revenue for its perpetrators. Messages claiming to share the users' first ever Facebook status updates were being posted on users' walls by a rogue application.

Typical posts read -- "My 1st St@tus was: '[random message]'. This was posted on [random date]. Find your 1st St@tus @ [LINK]". When users clicked on this link, which appeared to have been posted by a Facebook friend, they were taken to a rogue Facebook application.

This application would then ask users to give it permission to access their profile. This would give the rogue application the ability to post the same message from the affected account to all in the friends' list. Users were also taken to a webpage which contained a survey.

Those behind such scams make commission from the number of people completing this survey and in some cases, Facebook users might also be asked for their mobile phone numbers in order to sign them up for an expensive, premium-rate service.

"Sadly, many people are all too quick to give permission to rogue applications like this, giving the bad guys free reign of their Facebook account," said Cluley.

"If users allow these applications to access their profiles, they may well find that the application has posted a message on their Facebook page, which is visible to all of their online friends, helping to spread the scam further. I deliberately infected a test account with this application, and it didn't even get my first status or the date correct! Unfortunately, by the time users realised this, they might have already helped the scammers by spreading the message across their network," he added.

Facebook users who have been affected should delete references to this scam from their wall, to avoid sharing it further with their online friends.

Read more: Facebook is not closing down on March 15 - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Facebook-is-not-closing-down-on-March-15/articleshow/7258265.cms#ixzz1AoqolQZR

FACEBOOK WILL END ON MARCH 15th!

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.
“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.
“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”
Zuckerberg said that the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset.
“I personally don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said in a private phone interview. “And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.”
Some Facebook users were furious upon hearing the shocking news.
“What am I going to do without Facebook?” said Denise Bradshaw, a high school student from Indiana. “My life revolves around it. I’m on Facebook at least 10 hours a day. Now what am I going to do with all that free time?”
However, parents across the country have been experiencing a long anticipated sense of relief.
“I’m glad the Facebook nightmare is over,” said Jon Guttari, a single parent from Detroit. “Now my teenager’s face won’t be glued to a computer screen all day. Maybe I can even have a conversation with her.”
Those in the financial circuit are criticizing Zuckerberg for walking away from a multibillion dollar franchise. Facebook is currently ranked as one of the wealthiest businesses in the world, with economists estimating its value at around 7.9 billion.
But Zuckerberg remains unruffled by these accusations. He says he will stand by his decision to give Facebook the axe.
“I don’t care about the money,” said Zuckerberg. “I just want my old life back.”
The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased.