Mark Zuckerberg, who built Facebook into an online powerhouse with nearly 600 million users and was the subject of this year's hit film "The Social Network," has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year. The Facebook CEO beat out The Tea Party, The Chilean miners and WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange. He joins an elite list of high-tech entrepreneurs and business leaders who have been selected by Time. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was named Person of the Year at the peak of the dot-com boom in 1999, while Bill and Melinda Gates received the honor (along with Bono) for their philanthropic work in 2005. Intel's Andy Grove was selected in 1997.
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