Sunday, February 5, 2012

Happy Birthday To Facebook, Facebook Turns 8

Happy Birthday Facebook, Happy Birtday To Facebook.com, Facebook Celebrate It's 8th Birthday Today ::



    I wish to Facebook a very happy b'day and also would like to congratulate them for being one of the best social networking website of our generation. Never did they know how important they are to our daily lives, Facebook re-connects people to their relatives and friends. Cheers to Facebook ..!!




Background ::

    Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.

Launched :: February 4, 2004
Founded :: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (2004)
Founder(s) :: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Headquarters :: Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Key people :: Mark Zuckerberg (CEO), Sheryl Sandberg (COO), David Ebersman (CFO), Donald Graham (Chairman)
Revenue :: US$ 3.71 billion (2011), up from $1.97b (2010)
Employees :: 3000+ (As on 2011)
Website :: Facebook.com
IPv6 support :: www.v6.facebook.com
Advertising :: Banner ads, Referral Marketing, Casual Games
Users :: 845 million (Active At December 31, 2011)


Ownership ::

    The ownership percentages of the company are as follows. Mark Zuckerberg: 24%, Accel Partners: 10%, Digital Sky Technologies: 10%, Dustin Moskovitz: 6%, Eduardo Saverin: 5%, Sean Parker: 4%, Peter Thiel: 3%, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners: between 1 to 2% each, Microsoft: 1.3%, Li Ka-shing: 0.75%, the Interpublic Group: less than 0.5%. A small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each, including Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Adam D’Angelo, Chris Hughes, and Owen Van Natta, while Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus have sizable holdings of the company. The remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors. Adam D’Angelo, chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longer interested in partial ownership of the company.


Initial Public Offering (IPO) ::

    Facebook filed their S1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2012. The company filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO), making it one of the biggest in tech history and the biggest in internet history. The IPO will value Facebook between $75 and $100 billion.

Source :: Wiki



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