Dr Prannoy L Roy:-

Name:- Dr Prannoy L Roy
Born:- born on October 15, 1949
Founder:-He is founder and the president of New Delhi Television (NDTV). He is one of the pioneers of Indian television journalism.

Early life:-

Roy attended The Doon School, Dehradun and went to Haileybury (UK) for his A-levels. He graduated in Economics from the University of London's Queen Mary College in 1973. Then he got his Ph.D from the Delhi School of Economics where he also taught for a year. He worked as a Chartered Accountant for some time and later joined Price Waterhouse, India before moving over to television.

Career:-

He rose to fame with the program The World This Week and the election coverage with Vinod Dua on Doordarshan. He has also worked for the STAR TV. He specializes in covering elections. He is also a well-known economist and has served as an economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance.
He is married to Radhika Roy (sister of Brinda Karat), who was a speech therapist and is the Director of NDTV. He is the uncle of the prize winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy.
He is also a member of International Advisory Board a neo conservative globalist think tank council on foreign relations.
Dr. Prannoy Roy, Chairman and Wholetime Director, age 54 years, is one of the leading psephologists and political analysts in India. He is the recipient of the prestigious Leverhulme fellowship for his Doctorate and a scholarship to study at the Haileybury, a leading public school in England. Dr. Roy has a doctorate in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, bachelors in Economics from the Queen Mary College, London University and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from London.During 1985-1987, Dr. Roy was associated with the Ministry of Finance, Government of India as Economic Advisor. He has been involved with the television media since 1980 as a commentator on elections and from 1984 as one of the premier anchorpersons in India in terms of credibility, analytical depth and presentational quality. He has been adjudged the television personality of the millennium by the Indian Express poll and has contributed to various national and international publications. He has been felicitated by many organizations. Some of the key awards received by him are:
 Priyadarshini Academy Bombay, Felicitations Award for explicit coverage of world news on TV and analysis of trends in elections awarded in 1990
 Dynasty Culture Club Hall of Fame award for Best Anchor Person in 1991
 TV & Video Award for Best Anchor Person in 1993
 B. D. Goenka Award for excellence in Journalism in 1994 and 1995
 Maharana Mewar Foundation Award for contribution to Journalism in 1996
 Runner-up for Best News Presenter / Anchor in the Asian television Awards in 1997
 Goodwill Tour Award from Habib Public School, Karachi awarded in 1997
 Indian Dance theatre “Best Personality of the Year” awarded in 1998
 Screen Videocon Award for “Lifetime Achievement” awarded in 1998
 Limca Book of Records – “Person of the year” awarded in 1998
 Ernst & Young - Entrepreneur of the year award (Media)
The 50-something president of NDTV, Prannoy Roy, is not only his competitors' envy and the idol of millions of Indian youngsters aspiring to make it as TV journalists and news presenters in an industry that is slowly throwing up newer opportunities, but also a heart-throb of sorts. His female fan following is said to be legion as the man sporting a salt-n-pepper beard still retains his handsome looks even as his charm off-screen is infectious. But Roy remains elusive to the prying media and shy of the limelight, unlike some of his counterparts in the industry. His oft-repeated defence being `let my work speak for me and the organisation' or `when the time comes, I'll speak to you.'
But in recent times, Roy has shed some of his inhibitions and made a few public appearances - one of the rare occasions being Indiantelevision's Indian Telly Awards in November 2002, where he was bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement honour.Repeated requests for interviews have been politely turned down by Roy, who is now poised to convert his TV software company into a broadcasting company. A trained economist, Roy dabbled in psephology before hitting the big time in Indian television towards the latter half of the last decade when the country's TV viewing choice was more or less limited to Doordarshan.If New Delhi Television today claims in promos and audiovisuals that `if it's news, it must be NDTV' (as an A/V did during a press conference today to announce a distribution tie-up for NDTV's two proposed news channels with One Alliance), it is not much off the mark.Through its 15 year history, NDTV has striven to better its quality and the technology used. From the revolutionary The World This Week (nominated one of India's five best TV programmes since Independence) on Doordarshan to the first privately produced nightly news bulletins on DD, The News Tonight, NDTV has always been in the forefront, setting industry standards. No wonder then, that TV personality Vinod Dua, who has worked closely with Roy during his earlier days, feels that NDTV is a true "blue chip TV company." Though, some critics also maintain that a large portion of the success of Roy and NDTV should also be reserved for influential persons in the government and elsewhere who have, in times of need, given that necessary push, the lack of which has sounded the death knell for many an organization in an increasingly competitive world. Still, there is no denying the fact that Roy and his colleagues run one of India's best news and current affairs outfit.Today, as NDTV stands almost at the fag end of its five-year old - at times tumultuous - association with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star (NDTV was contracted for producing content for Star News channel), Roy remains as enigmatic as before. In this piece, indiantelevision has attempted to collate the replies to various questions that Roy fielded from the media, including us, during a press conference and on the sidelines. The piece also gives some insight into the mind of a person who is gracious when faced with awkward questions (`how would you describe the association with Star now that you two are parting?'), alive to competition and ready to write another chapter in the history of Indian television.

IPI honour for Prannoy Roy
By Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, presenting the IPI-India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2004 to Prannoy Roy in New Delhi on Monday. Philip Mathew, vice-chairman of the international board of the IPI and Managing Editor of Malayala Manorama, is at left. — Photo: Shanker Chakravarty.
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. Prannoy Roy, the distinguished media personality and president of NDTV, was today presented with the Award for Excellence in Journalism, by the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. At a function held at Vigyan Bhavan here, Dr. Roy received it for investigative stories run by the news and current affairs television channel on the stamp paper scam masterminded by Abdul Karim Telgi and a baby-swapping racket.
The award, comprising a memento and a cash component of Rs. 2 lakhs, is instituted by the India chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI). A jury headed by the former Chief Justice of India and Chairman of National Human Rights Commission, A.S. Anand, made the choice.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg:-

Full name:- Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
Born:- May 14, 1984.
Country:- New York, America.
Status - Founder:- CEO – Facebook.com (Social Networkingsite)
Education:- Harvard College (computer science)

Lifestlye:-

Zuckerberg was born to a Jewish-American family and raised in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York. He began programming computers in sixth grade. Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School and transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy in his junior year.
In 2003, Zuckerberg and his friend Adam D'Angelo launched the Synapse Media Player. The player received high acclaim in its ability to predict songs to play based on the user's previous selections. Several software companies, including Microsoft, expressed interest in the player, though no formal deals were made.

College Years:-

Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006. He was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. At Harvard, Zuckerberg continued creating his projects. An early project, Coursematch, allowed students to view lists of other students enrolled in the same classes. A later project, Facemash.com, was a Harvard-specific image rating site similar to Hot or Not. A version of the site was online for four hours before Zuckerberg's Internet access was revoked by administration officials. The computer services department brought Zuckerberg before the Harvard University Administrative Board, where he was charged with breaching computer security and violating rules on Internet privacy and intellectual property.
The school alleged that Zuckerberg had hacked into Harvard house websites to harvest images of students without their permission, for profit Zuckerberg stated that he thought that information should be free and publicly available. The action taken by the board, if any, was not made public. In 2004, Zuckerberg created Facebook and took a leave of absence from the college. A year later he dropped out.

Initiative as an entrepreneur:-

Mark Zuckerberg founded "The Facebook" in February 2004, while attending Harvard University, with support from Andrew McCollum and Eduardo Saverin. By the end of the month, more than half of the undergraduate population at Harvard were registered on the service. At that time, Zuckerberg was joined by Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes for site promotion and Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. This expansion continued in April of 2004 when it expanded to the rest of Ivy League and a few other schools. The following month, Zuckerberg, McCollum and Moskovitz moved to Palo Alto, California, to continue work on Facebook's development with additional help from Adam D'Angelo and Sean Parker. In September, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, the owners of the social networking website ConnectU, filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that Zuckerberg had illegally used source code intended for a website they asked him to build for them. Also at that time, Facebook received approximately $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel in an angel round. By December, Facebook's user base had exceeded one million.

Facebook Legal Challenges:-

Founder of Facebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg, has been accused of illegally using both the concept and source code from competing site Connectu.com. In November 2003, ConnectU engaged Mark Zuckerberg, then a sophomore at Harvard, to complete the computer programming for their website. Upon joining the ConnectU team, Zuckerberg was given full access to the website source code. Allegedly, Zuckerberg intentionally hampered the development of ConnectU while using code originally intended for ConnectU in the development of Facebook.
Since its original filing in Massachusetts the lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice due to technicality on March 28, 2007, but was never ruled on. It was refiled soon thereafter in U.S. District Court in Boston, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 25, 2007. Facebook asked the district court to dismiss the case. The attorneys representing Facebook referred to the allegations as "broad brush", "false" and that they are unsubstantiated with evidence.

Facebook Sale Rumors:-

In 2006, with the sale of social networking site MySpace to NewsCorp, rumors surfaced about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company. Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, has said that he does not want to sell the company and denies rumors to the contrary. He has already rejected outright offers in the range of $975 million, and it is not clear who might be willing to pay a higher premium for the site. Steve Rosenbush, a technology business analyst, suspects Viacom.
In September 2006, serious talks between Facebook and Yahoo! took place for the acquisition of the social network, with prices reaching as high as $1 billion. In October, after Google purchased video-sharing site YouTube, rumors circulated that Google had offered $2.3 billion to outbid Yahoo! Peter Thiel, a board member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook's internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015, comparable to that of Viacom's MTV brand and based on shared target demographic audience.
In September 2007, Microsoft approached Facebook, proposing an investment in return for a 5% stake in the company. Microsoft would pay an estimated 300 to 500 million dollars for the share. Other companies such as Google had also expressed interest in buying a portion of Facebook. On October 24th, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had bought a 1.6% share of Facebook for $246 million, which values the site at around $15 billion.