2. Facebook
Web site of social networks created by
Mark Zuckerberg and founded together
with Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and
Dustin Moskovitz. It was originally a site
for students of Harvard University, but
was open to anyone with an e-mail
account.
3. Facebook
Versions in French, German and Spanish
translations by users of non-remunerated
manner, launched in mid-2007 7 mainly
to boost its expansion outside the United
States, since its users are concentrated in
the United States, Canada and United
Kingdom.
4. Twitter
Micro-blogging service, with
headquarters in San Francisco,
California, with branches in San
Antonio Texas and Boston
(Massachusetts) in United States.
Twitter, Inc. was originally created in
California, but is under the jurisdiction
of Delaware since 2007.
5. Twitter
Since Jack Dorsey created it in March
2006, and released it in July of the same
year, the network has gained
popularity worldwide and it is estimated
that it has more than 200 million users,
generating 65 million tweets a day and
manages more than 800,000 daily
search requests.
6. MySpace
Social network owned by Specific
Media LLC and Justin Timberlake pop
star service. MySpace was launched in
August 2003 and its base is located in
Beverly Hills, California. In August,
Myspace had 33.1 million visitors in the
United States.
7. MySpace
From 2005 to 2008, Myspace was the most
visited social network in the world, and in
June 2006 surpassed Google as the most
visited website in the United States. In April
2008, Myspace was surpassed by
Facebook.
8. Hi5
Social network founded by Ramu
Yalamanchi (current CEO of hi5
Networks company) and which was
released in 2003. At the end of the
year 2007 had more than 70 million
registered users, most of them in Latin
America; In addition, it was one of the
40 most visited web sites in the world.
Bill Gossman was appointed CEO in
April 2009, Alex St.
9. Hi5
John joined as President and CTO in
November of the same year. In early
2010, hi5 acquired the company
from Games Big Six company
purchased 20 million dollars in series
of Mohr Davidow Ventures, as well as
15 million dollars in debts of risk in
2007.
10. YaHoo
It has a Web portal, a web directory,
and a series of services, including the
popular Yahoo! e-mail address. Its
mission is to be overall more essential
for consumers and business Internet
service.
It was founded in January 1994 by
two graduate students from Stanford
University, Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Yahoo! was incorporated as a
company on March 2, 1995 and
began trading on the stock
exchange on April 12, 1996.
