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Facebook was launched
Facebook was founded Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.In August 26,2008 it got 100 mllion users. -
Domain Name
On August 23, 2005,The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. -
Facebook added Universities
On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to more than 2,000 colleges and more than 25,000 high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. -
Allowing.
Facebook began allowing college students to add high school students as friends due to requests from users. -
Facebook New Services.
On July 25, new services were offered in the site that would potentially produce additional revenue. A promotion was arranged between Facebook and iTunes. -
Facebook API (application programming interface)
On May 10, 2007, Facebook announced a plan to add free classified advertisements to its website, making it a competitor with established online companies.Facebook launched an API (application programming interface) that allows the development of applications to be used on the site. -
Facebook Ads
On November 7, 2007, Facebook announced Facebook Ads; Facebook Beacon, a marketing initiative which includes a system for websites to allow users to share chosen information about their activities on the sites with their Facebook friends ; the capability of businesses to host pages on Facebook for various brands, products and services (Facebook Pages) -
Global Social Network
Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009 and 67% of global social media users visited the site during the month.” Facebook had reported 350 million monthly active users worldwide at the beginning of December and 400 million at the beginning of February. -
Users. 400million
Facebook reaches 400 million active users. -
Facebook Removes.
In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security. -
Facebook App
Facebook announced App Center, an online mobile store which sells applications that connect to Facebook. The store will be available to iPhone, Android and mobile web users. -
iOS app
On August 23rd, 2012 Facebook released the much anticipated update to its iOS app, version 5.0.
