DIGITAL CELEBRITIES

By Monika Doshi

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

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

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

ConnectU

• 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

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.

Google Glass

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

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

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

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

Apple Products

iwatch

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

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

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

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

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