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101-Year-Old Florence Detlor Is Facebook’s Oldest User

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:03 pm, August 28th, 2012

My mom isn’t on Facebook, and for that I’m grateful, but boy do I think it’s cool that this other lady is a registered user. Florence Detlor is 101-years-old and recently got the VIP treatment at Facebook headquarters. She also met with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Girl Scouts of America and Geek Squad Team Up To Inspire Geeky Girls

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:02 pm, August 2nd, 2012

In an effort to bolster girls’ interest in science and technology, Girl Scouts of America has invited the Geek Squad summer academy to New Orleans this August, where 200 girls aged 10 to 14 will pull apart and rebuild computers and learn about the technology behind digital photography and music.

Meet Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s New CEO and Silicon Valley’s Newest Female Executive

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:05 am, July 17th, 2012

After a year-long search for their next top executive, Yahoo has finally settled on a new CEO — Marissa Mayer, former Google engineer and self-proclaimed geek, will take the helm of the Internet giant this week, establishing her as one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley.

And Then There Was One: Facebook Appoints Sheryl Sandberg to Its Executive Board

by Jamie Frevele | 11:49 am, June 26th, 2012

Following months, perhaps years, of complaints about how the “highest-ups” at Facebook are all men, Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s COO since 2008, has finally become the first woman appointed to the board of directors. It won’t be the first board she’s been on, but it’s probably fair to say that it’s about darn time Facebook made this change. We’ll go ahead and say it: The Mary Sue “likes” this.

UltraViolet Begins Campaign to Get at Least One Woman on the Executive Board of Facebook

by Susana Polo | 3:06 pm, April 25th, 2012

UltraViolet, an online women’s rights advocacy and activist organization that’s previously waged campaigns against a number of political appointments and legislative pushes, as well as advertisers of, ah, radio commentators who are fond of misunderstanding basic concepts like how birth control works and throwing gendered slurs around based on those misconceptions. But today they’re taking their case to a slightly different arena: the tech world, namely the New York offices of Facebook. They plan to deliver a petition, fifty eight thousand signatures long, asking Facebook to change the line up on its executive board so that when it goes public in a few months, it will be with at least one woman in that board room.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Says Women Would Benefit From Marrying Other Women

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:16 pm, April 9th, 2012

Feel free to put this down in the column of things you don’t normally hear every day. Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, recently stated in an interview that women would probably be better off if they married other women instead of men. Read on for her thought process and her advice for female geeks.

Facebook, Women, And Breastfeeding: Which Of These Don’t Belong?

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:02 pm, February 6th, 2012

According to two recent articles about the social networking site Facebook, the answer would be both women and breastfeeding. Facebook’s move to public offering shed light on the fact that the company has no women on its board. They’re also facing backlash from mothers who’ve had photos of themselves breastfeeding their babies removed from the website. What gives?