Tagged: top internet businesses
Which are the top Internet businesses
Today we will lead you to a new world, the kingdom of Yahoo.com. It is of the most important players in the history of the Internet and possibly one of the largest existing portals which is inspired by the story of two young entrepreneurs. How Yahoo.com Was Started In the spring of 1994, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications. At that time Jerry Yang and David Filo were just two recently graduated electrical engineering students who were looking for a job. In a busy office, located at the campus of Stanford University and not far away from the...
GoDaddy (godaddy.com) was founded in 1997 as a web services company by Bob Parsons under the name Jomax Technologies. Three years earlier Parsons sold his financial software company to Intuit for $64 million. In 1999 Jomax changed its name to GoDaddy. The company started in Scottsdale, Arizona, and grew to several facilities operating in Washington DC, California, Colorado, Iowa, and India. Gaining Momentum Parsons created GoDaddy with an emphasis on security and customer support. He invested in high-tech systems to ensure the satisfaction of customers and prevent any abuses of the system. He also added various other services such as...
Facebook’s Startup Story Facebook (www.facebook.com) was launched in February 2004 as a social network by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard classmates. Within five years it surpassed MySpace as the leading social network website. At first, the site was called “The Facebook” and was created for Harvard students to communicate with each other. It was then expanded to other Ivy League universities. The response was strong, so the site expanded membership to more mainstream schools and colleges. From there Zuckerberg opened up the floodgates to the public and the site’s user base grew exponentially. Zuckerberg’s first attempt at a social network...
When a young man with a childhood habit of collecting things like insects and stamps combined his passion for design with engineering skills, Pinterest was born. Ben Silberman along with his friends and colleagues Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp started the development of Pinterest in December 2009, and launched the site in March 2010, as a closed beta. This is not after Ben graduated from Yale in 2003, worked with Google in the sales organization department, and designed many iPhone apps which were never launched. Ben and his friends wanted to create a social platform that will allow people to...
Alexa.com is a web traffic analysis service that provides comprehensive web analytics and competitive intelligence data. The company was founded back in April 1996. Its vision revolves around the concept of wise web navigation a concept that is ever-evolving still today. Currently, it is owned by Amazon and was acquired in 1999. Alexa tracks over 30 million websites, giving customers in-depth insight into how visitors interact with their sites. It also keeps track of top sites and other categories to measure the online popularity of various web properties. Alexa Internet, Inc. is a successful web information company that has created...
Taobao.Com – The Start Taobao, an e–commerce giant founded by Jack Ma, is one of the world’s leading online marketplaces. It has become an integral part of Chinese society, with over 800 million registered users and 600 million active users. The company is estimated to have an annual turnover of over $40 billion, making it the largest and most popular e–commerce platform in the world. It is also one of the biggest success stories of the digital age, and its success story is one of determination, innovation, and ambition. The company’s origin story began in 2003 when Ma began his...
The world of social networks is really dynamic. Last year we published a list of the top 30 social networks for 2012. This post is a continuation of this, and here you can find a table with the most popular social networking sites for 2013. This year, the leader is Facebook again with around 1 000 000 000 (a billion) registered user accounts. The second place is taken by Twitter, climbing one place higher. It’s registered users in 2013 reached half a billion. The third is Google+, which was on the 13th position the previous year. Today the social site...
You can get rich and very successful even by a complete accident. In fact, many great businesses come to the world totally by fluke. And this is how one of the most popular social publishing platforms – Movable Type was born. It was started by a husband and wife, who created a system with the only ambition to make their own blog and a few years later they were millionaires. Today Movable Type is used by millions of people and by some of the largest companies in the world for their websites. It’s an open-source CMS software for creating sites,...
Google has been one of the greatest companies of our time. It is the perfect example of how one could create a multi-billion business out of nothing, with only a great idea, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit. More than 190 million people visit the sites of the company every single month and this number has been growing year after year. In the following infographic created by Wishpond, you can see some interesting statistics about the popularity of some Google sites. The information is from March 2013 and shows how big the business of the company really is. For example, they pay...
What Is Twitter? Twitter is a very popular social network that allows its users to post short messages (known as “tweets”) of up to 280 characters, which can be read by other users. Tweeting means sending messages. Twitter can be used to connect businesses with customers as well as a personal communication tool. The site was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, like so many big-name websites of the early 21st century. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms in the world with millions of users from all...
