Digital celebrities
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Vint Cerf is known as the "Father of the Internet" for his role in developing TCP/IP. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and has acquired companies like WhatsApp and Instagram. Twitter was co-founded by Jack Dorsey in 2006 as a microblogging service allowing users to post and read short 140-character messages called tweets. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has acquired companies including YouTube.
Digital celebrities
- 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