digital celebrities

DIGITAL CELEBRITIES

Father Of Internet

 Vinton Thurston Cerf

Famous Digital Celebs

Facebook• Facebook is an online social networking service founded

in February 4, 2004.•  Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardi

Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes• CEO: Mark Zuckerberg

Twitter• Twitter is an online social networking and micro blogging

service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets".

• Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone

• CEO: Dick Costolo

Google• Google is an American multinational corporation

specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing,

and software, founded in

September 4, 1998• Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin• CEO: Larry Page

LinkedIn• LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service.

Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

• Founders: Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, Eric Ly

• CEO: Jeff Weiner

Slideshare• Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or

privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.

• Founders: Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle, Amit Ranjan• CEO: Rashmi Sinha

Whatsapp• WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile

messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.

• Founders: Jan Koum,

Brian Acton• CEO: Jan Koum

Rediff• Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment

and shopping web portal, founded in 1996.• Founder: Ajit Balakrishnan• CEO: Ajit Balakrishnan

Apple• Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation

headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers.

• Founders: Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak• CEO: Tim Cook

Microsoft• Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational

corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.

• Founders: Bill Gates, Paul Allen• CEO:  Satya Nadella

Youtube• YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San

Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006.

• Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim• CEO: Susan Wojcicki

Instagram• Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-

sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.

• Founders: Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger• CEO: Kevin Systrom

Pinterest• Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find

ideas for all your projects and interests.• Founder: Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra • CEO: Ben Silbermann

Foursquare• Foursquare helps you find the perfect places to go with

friends. Discover the best food, nightlife, and entertainment in your area.

• Founder: Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai.• CEO: Dennis Crowley

Yahoo• Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet

corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California founded on 1994.

• Founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo• CEO: Marissa Mayer

RedBus• RedBus, also known as redBus.in, is India's biggest online

bus ticketing company.• Founder: Phanindra Reddy Sama, Sudhakar

Pasupunuri and Charan Padmaraju• CEO: Phanindra Reddy Sama

MakeMyTrip• It provides online travel services including flight tickets,

domestic and international holiday packages, hotel reservations, rail and bus tickets.

• Founder: Deep Kalra• CEO: Deep Kalra

Flipkart • Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company founded in

2007.• Founders: Sachin and Binny Bansal• CEO: Sachin Bansal

Snapdeal• Snapdeal.com is an online marketplace, headquartered in

New Delhi, India. Great range, best prices, free shipping and COD options.

• CEO: Kunal Bahl

Happily Unmarried• Happily Unmarried is a fun lifestyle brand from India. The

company is known for its fun and quirky India-centric designs across gifting categories such as apparel, glassware, travel accessories, office and stationery.

• Founder: Rajat Tuli and

Rahul Anand

Who acquired?• Whatsapp: Facebook• Youtube: Google• Instagram: Facebook• Pinterest: Facebook• Flickr: Yahoo• Picassa: Google• Myntra: Flipkart• Slideshare: LinkedIn

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