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Born
Born May 14, 1984
Is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. -
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Facemash
Mark Zuckerberg launches Facemash, the predecessor of Facebook, and it was described as a version of Hot or Not of Harvard University -
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Changes in the social network
Mark Zuckerberg starts to write codes to create Facebook, registers the domain thefacebook.com through Network Solutions.
Mark has the idea to add 'Relationship status' and 'Interest' in your page, and the same day puts online TheFacebook.
Facebook Expands to Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University and Yale University. -
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2005
May 26, 2005: Accel Partners invests $ 13,000,000 in Facebook.
July 19, 2005: News Corp MySpace acquires, stimulating rumors about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.
August 23, 2005: Facebook acquires the Facebook.com domain for $ 200,000.
September 2005: Acquires Secondary School Networks
October 2005: Adds international school networks and the option to upload photos on the page. -
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2006
2006: A cash flow statement that shows that Facebook had a loss of $ 3.63 million for the fiscal year 2005.
March 28, 2006: A possible acquisition of Facebook, under the negotiations, is reported for $ 750 million first, then $ 2 billion.
September 2006: Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about acquiring it for $ 1 billion.
September 2006: Facebook launches a version on the website for high schools. September 26 Facebook is open to all people over 13 years, and with a valid email address. -
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2008
June 2008: Facebook installs both trials, ConnectU vs. Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg vs. Eduardo Saverin. On theft of intellectual property, Wayne Chang et al. on the social butterfly project of The Winklevoss Chang Group. Indeed the agreement was that Facebook acquired ConnectU 20 million dollars in cash and more than $ 1.2 million in shares, worth $ 45 million based on $ 15 billion valuation of companies.
October Facebook establishes its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. -
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2009
August 2009: Facebook acquires FriendFeed.
September 2009: Facebook claims that it has become positive cash flow for the first time. -
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2010
February 2010: Facebook acquires Malaysia by contacting importers of Octazen So0lutions startup.
April 2, 2010: Facebook has announced the acquisition of the photo sharing service called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount.
April 19, 2010: Facebook presents Community Pages, which are pages that are filled with articles from Wikipedia.
April 21, 2010: Facebook Introduces Instant Personalization, from Microsoft Docs, Yelp and Pandora. -
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2011
January 2011: $ 500 million is invested in Facebook in 1% of the company, putting its value in $ 50 billion.
February 2011: Facebook adds the option of "civil union" for gay associations.
September 22, 2011: Facebook shows the biography for the users of the page in the F8 Agreement.
October 10, 2011: Facebook launches application for iPad.
December 21, 2011: Facebook records the biography
December 22, 2011: Facebook launches its new profile user interface, called Biography (Timeline).