Kings Of Digi-WorldDigital Celebrities

IntroductionSocial Sites have become a daily habit for anyone aging 10-50 years.. but do we even know who brought these sites to us? Here is a list of famous social websitE, Internet Giants and their founders.

Facebook Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered

in Menlo Park, California. Its name comes from a colloquialism

for the directory given to students at some American

universities.

Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo

Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes

Founded:  February 4, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts,

United States

CEO: Mark Zuckerberg

Twitter Inc. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging

service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. 

Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone

Founded: March 21, 2006, San Francisco, California, United States

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA, United States of America

CEO: Dick Costolo

LinkedIn CorporationLinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

Founders: Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, Eric Ly

Founded: May 5, 2003

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA, United States of America

CEO: Jeff Weiner

InstagramInstagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.  The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock.

Founders: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger 

Founded: October 6, 2010

Headquarters: South Park -San Francisco, CA

CEO:  Kevin Systrom

PinterestPinterest is a visual discovery tool that people use to collect ideas for their different projects and interests.

Founders: Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silberman

Founded: March, 2010

Headquarters: South Park -San Francisco, CA

CEO:  Ben Silberman

WhatsappWhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging subscription service for smartphones and selected feature phones that uses the internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video, and audio media messages as well as their location using integrated mapping features. company is currently in the process of takeover after Facebook Inc. announced its acquisition of WhatsApp Inc. on February 19, 2014, for US$19 billion.

Founders:  Brian Acton and Jan Koum 

Founded:  2009

Headquarters:  Mountain View, CA

CEO: Gopal Kshirsagar

Web Giants

GoogleGoogle is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin 

Founded: Menlo park, California September 4, 1998

Headquarters:  Mountain View, CA

CEO:  Larry Page

Microsoft CorporationMicrosoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.

Founders: Paul Allen and Bill Gates

Founded:  Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. April 4, 1975

Headquarters:  Redmond, Washington, U.S.

CEO:  Satya Nadella

Apple Inc.Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers

Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne

Founded: October 6, 2010

Headquarters:  Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop,Cupertino, CA, U.S.

CEO:  Tim Cook

Yahoo! Yahoo is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News,Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website

Founders: Jerry Yang and David Filo

Founded: March, 1994

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, U.S

CEO: Marissa Mayer

You TubeYouTube is a video-sharing website that allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video.

Founders: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim

Founded: February 14, 2005

Headquarters: South Park -San Francisco, CA

CEO:  Susan Wojcicki 

Foursquare

Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones

Founders: Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai

Founded: 2009, New York City, New York, US

Headquarters: New York City, New York, US

CEO:  Dennis Crowley

SlideshareSlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats:PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenDocument presentation. It acquired by LinkedIn in May 2012

Founders: Rashmi Sinha

Founded: October 4, 2009

CEO: Rashmi Sinha

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