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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