Tagged: top internet businesses
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...
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...
Baidu (www.baidu.com) is a company that provides public web services. It was established in January of 2000 and its headquarters are currently housed in the Haidian District of Bejing in China, on the Baidu Campus. The company offers a huge range of internet-related services, including a search engine that uses Chinese as its main language, for images, videos, and websites. It also provides a discussion forum for keywords, and an extensive online encyclopedia, like Wikipedia for the Chinese-speaking world. Baidu Inc. was created by two guys, named Eric Xu and Robin Li. Robin is the current chief executive and chairman...
What Is WordPress? A simple, powerful, and elegant solution for writing online – this was the main idea that gave birth to the most popular free blogging platform today – WordPress. It is an open-source content management system (CMS), making the creation of professional websites a kid’s game. Based on the PHP programming language and the MySQL database engine, WordPress is a very powerful tool in the hands of the webmaster. With tens of thousands of different plugins (add-ons) and themes, you can easily create whatever site you may like with this free platform. And this can be done literally...
Craigslist.org is the biggest classifieds site in the world today, receiving millions of visits per day and more than 20 billion page views per month. It’s in the group of the top 10 most popular sites in the US and number 35 in the world. Every single month, more than 70 million new classifieds are published there. The site is used for almost anything, from buying and selling stuff to personal ads and offers. This online empire was started with no money, and no experience, by a single guy as his hobby. Here is how it all happened… The History...
There are hundreds of millions of sites on the Internet today. Some of these web assets are something like online real estate – they generate passive revenue (rent) for their owners, and others are big online businesses making millions of dollars. It’s completely natural for these properties to be traded and this need has been growing fast for the last few years. This is what a group of entrepreneurs took advantage of and this was the idea behind the number one site marketplace – Flippa.com. What Is Flippa? Flippa is simply a website marketplace, where buyers and sellers of online...
What Is Fiverr Fiverr is the ultimate micro-jobs platform on the Internet. It’s a place where millions of buyers and sellers meet and exchange services, products, goods, and whatever else that you can imagine, and that costs $5. These are the so-called gigs, each gig will cost you five bucks, and it is the universal name for every offer there. Having more than 500 000 different gigs published, Fiverr has become a great place for individuals and businesses from around the world for outsourcing small tasks for relatively small amounts of cash. Imagine that you are a marketing company from...
What Is Blogger? Blogger.com (also known as blogspot.com) is the ultimate microblogging platform on the Internet. Not only has it been the most popular place for a free blog for the last several years, but also it is the most powerful tool one could use for this purpose. There you can start and develop a professional blog for free and even earn money from it. You have everything you may need to do this, and you can make it literally in minutes. This makes Blogger the perfect place for zounds of people, companies, organizations, and others to create their own...
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...
Wikipedia.org is the biggest and the most popular free online encyclopedia today. Its knowledge database has been created by millions of people from all over the world. Currently, (2019) the site has more than 40 million articles in more than 293 different languages. That makes around 3.7 billion words which are 85 times more than all of the words in all 120 volumes of “Encyclopædia Britannica“. and what’s even more amazing is that all of this content was created by the 27 million registered users (voluntarily) and it’s available for free use, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Monthly, more...
