Category: Social Media Marketing
Zynga Inc Zinga (zynga.com) is a games-developing company that was incorporated in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, with its main headquarter based in San Francisco, California. Just a few years after it was started, Zynga began generating billions of dollars in revenue from its social games. Originally, the project was named Presidio Media but the name was changed, in July of 2007, in honor of Mark’s dog – an American bulldog “Zynga”. This is also where the dog on the logo of the company derives from. In its humble beginnings, the entire production team included just nine people to run...
History Reddit.com is amongst the biggest social networking sites nowadays. It has more than a billion page views monthly, which makes it one of the most popular websites in the world. “The front page of the Internet” was started back in 2005, by two guys in their twenties – Alexis Ohanian and his friend Steve Huffman. They created a social site, where people were able to share links with a short description and vote for them. According to the number of votes, the publications were ranked and shown on the site. The young entrepreneurs initially created some fake accounts themselves...
LinkedIn’s Startup Story The story of the world’s biggest business social site LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com – has a very similar beginning, to many other high-tech and highly successful ventures. Only it was not started in a garage and not by a college dropout :). The founder of the popular site and its CEO – Reid Hoffman launched the site from his living room ;)… The idea for a professional social network was born back in 2002, when Hoffman and some friends of his, the other four founders – Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Eric Ly, and Konstantin Guericke, decided to start...
