Type of Business:  Public

Type of Site:  Social networking service

Available in: Multilingual (140)

Founded: February 4, 2004; 13 years ago

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

Area served:      United States (2004–05), worldwide, except blocking countries (2005–present)

Founder(s):    Mark Zuckerberg,    Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes

Website: www.facebook.com

About IN Facebook

Facebook (FB) is an American for-profit corporation and online community media and social networking employ rooted in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

Facebook may be accessed by a major range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones over the Internet and mobile networks. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile indicating their name, business, schools attended and so on. Users can add other users as "friends", swop messages, post status updates and digital photos, share digital videos and links, use multiple software applications ("apps"), and receive notifications when others update their profiles or make posts.  Except, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". In groups, editors can pin posts to top.

Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering (IPO) in February 2012, and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original  spire market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion. Facebook has more than 1.86 billion monthly deedful users as of December 31, 2016. As of April 2016, Facebook was the most popular social networking site in the world, based on the number of active user accounts. Facebook classifies users from the ages of 13 to 18 as pupilage and therefore sets their profiles to share content with friends only.

Features of Facebook:

1. Events: If we are not with their friends and it's says we do Birthday Wish ENJOY may have passed and rejoicing Wish we could have him away from Facebook and your friends Away from the B Event with Facebook we can ENJOY

2. Timeline: With the new Timeline feature, pictures, new friends, and other Material are flowing smoothly in a Comprehensive , double barrel river. Like most re-designs, Presently was met with mixed excoriation. But some people like it better than the old wall which was too cramped

3. Social Plug-ins: Want to exegesis on an article that you read about Barrack Obama or Lebron James? With Facebook social plug-ins, it is now thinkable to make a comment on multiple sites such as the New York Times and Global Grind. All you have to do is log-in to your Facebook account and your comment will be directly deputed on the site where you made the comment.

4. Embed-in-Post: This is where Facebook scores a major advantage More Twitter. When posting articles, videos, and photo on Facebook, the linked content is delivered right in the post. This way, you do not have to make another click.

5. Turn off Push Notifications:  With a minor adjustment on the settings Tab of your Facebook app, you can easily switch off push notifications. After all, you do not have to be always informed about what is going on with your friends and what abidance them busy is. Anyway, it could be an invite to play Candy Crush or Farmville.

6. Relationship Status: With this new feature, it would be much easier to demarcate whether the guy or girl you met recently is single, engaged, married, or in an open connection. All you have to do is invite them to become your Facebook friend. Once confirmed, you can easily look at their profile and check their relationship situation.

7.  Facebook Messenger: For some people, message popping up once in a time can be annoying. Yet, it turns out that others like the parley platform. Today, it is now one of the capitis 75 most downloading apps in the App shops.

8. The "Like" Button: Photo or vaccine that your friend just liked the post? Well, it may be that this kind of "like," "yes," or "Yes" as the word to type approval of a vaccine needs to be used. Now, you just have to click on the Like button.

9.  News Feed: This new update that was one of his opponents was met by opposition. Zuckerberg replied calmly. Now, without using Facebook News Feed in our walls will never be the same.

10. Photos: Undoubtedly, this is Facebook's most popular feature. Launched in October 2005, Photos Napster co-founder Sean Parker was the brainchild, and was engineered by Scott Marlette. Now, this is Instagram a run for their money.

History of Facebook

AcquisitionsIn:

August 2009, the Facebook social media real-time news aggregator FriendFeed, a startup created by Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit acquired is gone. In February 2010, Facebook acquired Malaysian contact import startup Octazen solution. On 2 April 2010, that Facebook acquired photo-sharing service called Divvyshot announced an undisclosed amount. In June 2010, an online marketplace for private Facebook stock trading reflected the assessment of $ 11.5 billion. April 12, 2012, the Facebook almost $ 1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing service Instagram acquired. 8th March 2013, Facebook announced that they acquired Storylane team, but not the product itself. On February 19, 2014 Facebook announced it WhatsApp Inc., in a mix of shares and cash of $ 19 billion is a smartphone instant messaging applications. The most ever for a venture capital-backed startup acquisition is paid. [Ninety]

Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It's Mark Zuckerberg in his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, was established with.  The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States, corporations, and by September 2006, 13 years for everyone of age and with a valid email address is outdated.