Category: The Best Companies To Work For
What Is Viber? Viber is a mobile messenger that makes it possible for you to chat, call, and send files to all other users of the app, using your Internet connection. It was created by a company called Viber Media (viber.com) and today is one of the most popular applications offering a free voice-over IP (VoIP) service to its users. This term may be familiar to you as Skype and RingCentral offer a similar service… However, Viber is a bit different. It is specifically created and marketed for mobile platforms and made to be extremely user-friendly and easy to use....
In 2012, there was an announcement from Facebook – they were buying Instagram for the price of $1 billion. A company started just a few years ago by two young entrepreneurs, has brought them to the world of super riches. A company that had no revenue, only 13 employees, and completely no profits by the time of the deal… Who would be so insane to pay a billion for such a business?!? Well, actually Instagram had one thing that was far more valuable – potential. And this is what the managers of the biggest social network spotted there. Here is...
Currently Android is the most popular mobile operating system on Earth. The little green robot has conquered the world in a few years and has almost destroyed many of its rivals. Today, millions of Android devices are activated every single day and there currently are around 1,75 billion devices using Android nowadays (75% of all mobile phones). These are some astonishing numbers, having in mind that the first mobile phone using Android was purchased at the end of 2008. History First, let’s say some words about what Android (www.android.com) actually is. It’s a Linux-based operating system, especially designed and developed...
When social media websites became popular, some rose to prominence and remained at the top of search results. Others plowed steadily down the middle of the road, remaining in the peripheral vision of interested online parties. And still, others fizzled out quickly due to keeping their focus too limited. In the case of LiveJournal, a social media outlet designed specifically for blogging, it has remained important depending on the geographical location. Founded in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick, a programmer born in Iowa and raised in Oregon, the site grew in popularity over the next few years. It wasn’t until the...
Cisco is a leading multinational technology company known for its advanced networking hardware, software, and services. The company was founded in 1984 and currently holds a strong presence in the enterprise mobility, cybersecurity, and Internet of Things markets. The name of the company was derived from the City of San Francisco. Before, engineers used lowercase for ‘cisco’ because it only came from the name of the said city. According to John Morgridge, the first president of the company, the owners got the name and the logo while driving to Sacramento to register the company, and then they saw the Golden Gate...
United Parcel Service, or UPS as it is known by everyone today, is one of the largest messenger and courier services on the planet. Since its beginnings in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle, United Parcel Service (UPS) has become one of the world’s most recognizable delivery companies. It serves an estimated 8 million customers each day and has operations in more than 220 countries. The company was started by James E. Casey when he was still a teenager after he witnessed a disorganized delivery service at a local department store in Seattle. Seeing an opportunity to improve the...
A History of eBay.com eBay‘s origins lie in San Jose, California. On September 5th, 1995, the American computer programmer named Pierre Omidyar founded a personal auction website called – AuctionWeb. One of the first items that were sold on the site was a not working laser pointer, at the price of $14.83. Astonished, Pierre contacted the buyer and asked him if he really understood that the pointer he bought was actually broken. In the email in which the buyer responded, he wrote: “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.” Actually, eBay was just a side work for Pierre. One day...
In the beginning, a tiny garage in Palo Alto, California, where two young and determined men created unique and visionary products while instituting a style of business management that revolutionized business strategies forever. David Packard and William Hewlett graduated from Stanford in 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression era of unemployment. As Packard later reflected, “Bill and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren’t interested in the idea of making money. Our idea was if you couldn’t find a job, you’d make one for yourself.” And, so they did. Starting Up In 1938, Starting in a...
Tencent (www.tencent.com) is one of China’s largest and most popular internet companies. It had its humble beginnings in November 1998 and since then has reached the zenith through years of hard work and client-friendly operating strategies. It was a big day for the company when it went public, as Tencent Holdings Limited was on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Tencent is bounded by its mission to improve the quality of human life through its different Internet services. The company is a one-stop center for mobile, telecom services, online advertising, and value-added Internet. The popular Internet platforms...
A Short Biography On May 14th, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born in a small White Plains town, in New York. He was the fourth child of Karen Kempner and Edward Zuckerberg, who already had three girls. This was how it all began… Currently, Mark is only 32, and his net worth by the year 2019 was estimated at $64 billion. But the fact that he is one of the youngest billionaires is the less interesting one. The cool stuff here is actually his startup story, telling how a kid became the founder and later the CEO of one of the...
