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Diesel is fuel for Facebook

HE MAY BE no Hollywood A-lister but at 46 million Facebook fans, ‘Fast and Furious’ actor Vin Diesel is someone Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg should cosy up to and maybe even pay some greenbacks so he does not take himself off the site for whatever reasons.

Such is Diesel’s fan base and influence on the social networking site that when news of his demise went viral last week, there were around a million people who signed an RIP page on the site within just hours and they only died down after there was categorical clarification that he was, in fact, alive and kicking.

In an age where celebs and wannabes hand over their Facebook and twitter accounts to professionals who post or tweet on their behalf, Diesel charms his fans by giving out daily musings on life such as not waiting for a perfect moment but making things perfect by seizing every moment. Now, who does not need some inspiration?

His career might be in great shape just now but we would like to suggest that Diesel can now safely author a book on how to leverage the power of Facebook. If nothing else, he will have Zuckerberg eating out of his hand and dipping into his wallet to fund/promote the book.

Ellison’s pay cheque
is smaller?

ONE MAN WHO will take home a considerably smaller — and we are saying this is very subjective — pay cheque this year is Oracle Corporation founder and CEO Larry Ellison. The third richest man in America, with a personal net worth of $41 billion, has seen an 18 per cent drop in his salary in fiscal year 2013. We are not sure this matters even a bit considering that the reduced salary is now $78.4 million and that is possibly more than an entire town in the country earns in the year. Ellison’s salary took a dip after he and top guns at the company declined the annual cash bonus when the company did not meet its internal financial targets for the year.

The 69-year-old Ellison is one elite club of CEOs in the country who make top dollars for their work, even though he only takes an annual salary of $1. Most of his income comes from stock options and other benefits that leadership teams at large companies rake in. He voluntarily declined a cash bonus that would have come to about $1.2 million, given “growth that did not meet Oracle’s internal expectations,” the company said recently.

That is what we call the tiniest speck of dust on the nose of a fruit fly, if you consider what the man has in his bank….sigh…

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