Facebook started when Mark Zuckerberg
(one student at Harvard University)
created a dating site. Zuckerberg is
inspired from the site Hot or Not naming
this site with the nickname Facemash.com
Homemade method of this website that is displaying
two photographs the couple man and
woman, then two pairs will be chosen by
the members of the site where the hottest
couples and what does not. to display
photos of the couple on this site, Zuckerberg tried by all means look for the
photo- photo by colleagues around the other
door to door to ask for a photo.
In 2004, Zuckerberg created a new site
called The Facebook URL address: http://
www.thefacebook.com.
for this new site, Zuckerberg commented:
"In my opinion, the efforts of college who
want to create a medium of exchange of information between the academic
community that takes many years was a
stupid thing.
with my site, I can do it
within a week".
When first launched The Facebook is
limited in the Harvard campus only.
it's
amazing!
in one month alone, its users have covered
more than half of Harvard students at the
time.
then, a number of Zuckerberg's friends joined the team
thefacebook.com
they are Eduardo Saverin (business
analyst), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer),
Andrew McCollum (graphic designer) and
Chris Hughes.
In March 2004, thefacebook.com began to
spread to several other campuses in the city
of Boston, USA and also to a number of
famous campus such as Stanford,
Columbia, Yale and the Ivy League.
does
not take long, this site has spread its use in almost every campus in America and
Canada.
month of June 2004.
Zuckerberg, McCollum and Moskovitz
moved its headquarters to Palo Alto,
California. Here they also aided also by Adam D'Angelo and Sean Parker.
mid-2004,
thefacebook.com gets its first
investment from PayPal cofounder, Pieter
Thiel. In May 2005, received an injection of
fresh funds thefacebook.com the joint
venture with Accel Partners dated 23
August 2005.
thefacebook.com officially
buying their domain name from
Aboutface.com for USD 200,000 and since then a fragment of the phrase "the" is not
used again so that their name officially
became
facebook.com in 2005 it, too, has
expanded the reach of facebook users to
teenagers. still in the same year, a number
of universities in Mexico, England, Australia and New Zealand can enjoy the
Facebook network. In 2006, Facebook was rumored to be
acquired by a company at a price of USD
750 million.
even offer jumped to $ 2
billion, but the news is not proven.
in April
2006, Facebook received an injection of
fresh funds USD 25 million investment from Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners and
Meritech Capital Partners. in May the
same year Facebook started to spread to the
continent of Asia through India.di
mid-2006,turn Israel and Germany. end on
11 September 2006, Facebook changed the registration status to be
"free to join" for
all owners of valid email addresses
worldwide.
In September 2007, Microsoft announced it
had bought 1.6% stake in Facebook valued
at USD 15 billion. share in decision also
included an agreement that Microsoft has
the right to put their ads on Facebook. seen
this a number of other giant players like Google, Viacom and Friendster also
expressed their interest to invest in
Facebook. earlier in the year 2006, Yahoo
has offered a bid of U.S. $ 1 billion
acquisition. november 2007, a Hong Kong
billionaire Li Ka-shing invested $ 60 million worth of Facebook. In August 2008, the magazine Business
Week has reported a number of other
parties involved implanting a stake in
Facebook so that the estimated values
ranging up to USD 3.75 billion USD 5
billion.
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