Zuckerberg

Officials complain about privacy issues amid conflicting reports

The social network strikes a deal to acquire the fast-growing messaging service WhatsApp for $19bn (£11.4bn).

It’s been an incredible journey so far, and I’m so grateful to be a part of it. It’s been amazing to see how people have used Facebook to build a real community and help each other in so many ways. In the next decade, we have the opportunity and responsibility to connect everyone and to keep serving the community as best we can.

The Facebook CEO purchases four residences adjacent to his existing home. He's said to have reacted to a developer's plans to buy one of the houses and sell it as "the one next door to Zuckerberg."

He wants to dispose of 41.1 million shares - but even after the sale he will still have a stake in the firm worth around £80 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister, Arielle, now a member of Team Google, and family jokes that more of their relatives now work there than at Facebook.