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e. Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [ 1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [ 2]
Facebook provides a development platform for many social gaming, communication, feedback, review, and other applications related to online activities. This platform spawned many businesses and added thousands of jobs to the global economy. Zynga Inc., a leader in social gaming, is an example of such a business.
Facebook ended its third full week at $27.10, slightly lower than a week previous. [45] The stock stayed below the $38 mark for months and finally bottomed out in September 2012 below $18. [46] The shares did not get back to the initial $38 again until August the following year, a full 16 months later. [46]
Zuckerberg noted that he believes a big part of this eventual success was the fact that the company started out with relatively small ambitions — starting out only at Harvard, expanding slowly ...
Justin Sullivan via Getty Images. It’s been 20 years since Mark Zuckerberg first brought thefacebook.com online from his dorm room. What happened next has been endlessly documented: the Harvard ...
He revealed that, early on, the team did not intend for the TheFacebook.com (as it was called) to become a business. In fact, being at Harvard and all, Facebook had no cash to run the business and ...
Facebook Platform in 2007 was very much the Wild West. It was a fun time to explore the social graph and build. It was the first time a big company, albeit with a few hiccups, successfully opened ...
Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]