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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Meets with Pope Francis

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday -- and the couple didn't come empty-handed.Zuckerberg [pictured above] wrote in a Facebook post that they gave the pope a model of Aquila, a solar-powered drone designed to beam internet access to remote areas."We told him how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he's found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world," wrote Zuckerberg, who was dressed in a suit instead of his signature gray T-shirt.

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is on a surprise visit to Nigeria, the company's largest African market, to meet with tech entreprenuers — Quartz

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is visiting Nigeria for a few days.Zuckerberg says he'll be "meeting with developers and entrepreneurs, and learning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria" during his time in Lagos.In line with this, Zuckerberg's first notable stop was at Co-Creation Hub (Cc Hub), in Yaba, Lagos' Silicon Valley-style ground zero for start-ups.

Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, but Facebook Is Definitely a Media Company

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently denied that his company is a media company, which no doubt came as a surprise to many people who have gotten used to thinking of it that way."No, we are a tech company, not a media company," he said during an event in Rome.But is that description accurate?