A Compilation of Founders and short information about Web Giants.

1. Kings Of Digi-World
Digital Celebrities

2. Introduction
Social 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. LinkedIn Corporation
LinkedIn 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

6. Instagram
Instagram 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

7. Pinterest
Pinterest 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

8. Whatsapp
WhatsApp 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

9. Web Giants

10. Google
Google 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

11. Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. You Tube
YouTube 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

15. 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

16. Slideshare
SlideShare 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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