a little brief about various social media websites.......like the founders and CEO

1. DIGITAL CELEBRITIES
By Monika Doshi

2. 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

3. 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

4. Facebook acquisitions
• Facebook has over 47 acquisitions
• Some of them are WhatsApp, Instagram, Face.com, FriendFeed and
ConnectU

5. • 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)
Twitter

6. 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.

7. Google Glass

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Apple Products

13. iwatch

14. 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

15. Pinterest
• 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

16. 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

17. Instagram
• Founders: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
• CEO: Kevin Systrom
• Acquired by Facebook on April 12,2012

18. 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