digital celebrities
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a little brief about various social media websites.......like the founders and CEOTRANSCRIPT
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DIGITAL CELEBRITIES
By Monika Doshi
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Vint Cerf • Father of Internet• Known for TCP/IP, Internet Society• Vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google• Responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on
the internet
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Facebook• An online social networking service headquartered in Menlo park,
California.• Founders: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes• Born on 1984,White plains, New York….• Launched from his Harvard dormitory on February 2004• Current CEO :Mark Zuckerberg• Net worth: $29.7 billion
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Facebook acquisitions• Facebook has over 47 acquisitions• Some of them are WhatsApp, Instagram, Face.com, FriendFeed and
ConnectU
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• Online social networking and microblogging service which enables users to send and read short 140 character messages known as tweets.
• Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey• Twitter’s origins lie in a daylong brainstorming sessions held by the board
members of the podcasting company “Odeo”.• Founded and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States on March
21st ,2006• Current CEO: Dick Costolo• Net worth: US $664 million (2013)
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Google• Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin• Current CEO: Larry Page• Net worth: $59.825 billion• Founded: Menlo Park, California on September 4th 1998• Headquarters: Mountain view, California• Partnership with NASA research center, Sun microsystems, Fox interactive
media, Global IP solutions and Geoeye• Some of the few companies Google acquired are YouTube, Deja, Outride,• Picassa, Keyhole.Inc and Spark Buy.
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Google Glass
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LinkedIn• Founders: Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean Luc- Vaillant, Allen
Blue and Eric Ly• CEO : Jeff Weiner• Founded: may 5TH 2003• Headquarters: Mountain view, CA, United States• Acquired Slideshare, Pulse, Bright, Connected and Card Munch• Net worth: $7.5 billion
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Slideshare• Founders: Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle & Amit Ranjan• CEO : Rashmi Sinha• Founded in October 2006 and acquired by LinkedIn in May 2012• Has 85 million unique visitors a month• Notable users of Slideshare The White House, NASA, World Economic
Forum, IBM and Hewlett Packard
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WhatsApp• Is a cross – platform mobile messaging application which allows to
exchange messages without having to pay for SMS• Founders: Jan Koum and Brian Acton• CEO : Jan Koum
• Based in Mountain View, California• Founded in 2009• Acquired by Facebook on February 2014
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Apple• Founders: Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak• CEO: Steve Cook• Founded April 1st 1976, Cupertino , California, United States• Acquired Quattro Wireless, Siri, HotSpot.com , Broad Maps and Beats.• Has a net worth of over $500 billion
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Apple Products
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iwatch
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Microsoft• Founders: Bill Gates and Paul Allen• CEO: Satya Nadella• Founded : April 4, 1975 Albuquerque, New Mexico , United States• Best software known products include internet explorer, XBOX and
Microsoft Office Suite• Acquired Skype technologies in May 2011• Took official control over Nokia on April 25th 2014
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• A visual discovery tool that helps people to find ideas for their projects and interest
• Founders: Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann• Launched March 2010• CEO: Ben Silbermann
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YouTube• Video sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California
• Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
• CEO: Susan Wojcicki
• Founded February 14,2005 , California, United States
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Instagram• Founders: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger• CEO: Kevin Systrom• Acquired by Facebook on April 12,2012
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Foursquare• Helps you to find the perfect places that one could go with their friends
• Founders: Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai
• CEO : Dennis Crowley
• Launched March 11, 2009