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PayPal has made a revolution in the world of online payments. It is an online financial service and digital payment system that allows individuals and businesses to securely make and receive payments. Launching in 1998, PayPal has revolutionized the way people transfer money, from person-to-person payments to convenient payment processing for merchants. With its global presence, PayPal is a trusted payment provider for people in more than 200 countries. Today, buying stuff and paying online anywhere in the world has become even easier, than paying at the local store. You can make it with a few clicks, without even leaving...
YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, has revolutionized the way people consume and share content. It was founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. This article delves into the fascinating story of YouTube’s founding, the challenges it faced, and its journey to becoming a global phenomenon. Youtube.com is the biggest video-sharing site in the world, it’s really huge! At the beginning of the year 2012, more than 4 billion videos were streamed every single day. Nowadays (2024) the platform boasts over two billion logged-in monthly users, making it one of the...
Today, Groupon.com is the biggest deal of the day site in the world. Its name comes from the words “group” and “coupon” and it is a place where you can buy stuff at really big discounts, reaching 90% for some offers. When the company went public on the 4th of November 2011, it was valued at nearly 13 billion dollars. That made the event the biggest IPO (Initial Public Offering), since Google‘s. Having in mind that at that time Groupon was a relatively new company (only 3 years old) and it had never made even a penny of profits, this...
Ehow.com is one of the biggest content sites nowadays. The site has a couple of millions of high-quality articles on whatever topic you could imagine. There you can also watch thousands of interesting videos, tutorials, research, and many more great materials. Its main business idea is to be a place, where users are able to find the answer to any question beginning with “How to” – from how to mow your lawn, to how to launch a shuttle in the open space. Every month more than 40 million people from around the world visit the site and their number has...
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...
1SaleADay.com How about buying a laptop for 50 bucks? Are you interested? This is an extraordinary story about a guy, who made millions of dollars selling at big discounts! At first sight, you may be thinking that I am kidding, but this is not a laughing matter… This is the real story of Ben Federman, the founder of 1SaleADay.com, where you can buy every day different product at up to 90% discount. Imagine, that you want to buy a digital camera. The best price you have found so far is $300 bucks and occasionally you come across a site, where...
Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) is one of the greatest Internet companies in the world. I can proudly say, that I am very happy to be a client of theirs and many other people would tell you the same. Not surprisingly, Goddady’s first competitor is far behind and its business is 4 times smaller (impressive). Having this in mind, I can say that the Daddy is the king in the domain name business, as in 2014 more than 50 million names are under their supervision. This makes the company the biggest registrar in the world. Except for domain names, you can buy...
Amazon – amazon.com – is a website that even a kid well knows today. Millions of customers, both returning and new visit this online marketplace to find everything they need to buy online. Their mission is to offer any product under the sun, to anyone, anywhere in the world… And they have been doing this really successfully for more than 20 years… Amazon.com Inc. is undoubtedly a pioneer in online retailing. The company offers almost everything – from books, videos, CDs, DVDs, and toys to automotive parts, lab & scientific supplies, power transmission products, and so on. And here in...
Habbo Hotel In the early years of the decade, online multiplayer social games were in fashion. Many sites were made, providing an opportunity for children, teenagers and adults to freely communicate with each other through the given interface. Penguins, bears and rabbits, various other animals, and tiny human-like figurines became known as ‘avatars’ and were available for personalization by the users. This is a whole virtual world, where your avatar lives the life you would like. You can do many real-life’s activities there, but the main reason people go to this site is to meet other avatars (people) in this...
How Google.com Was Started It was a nice, beautiful, and sunny day in 1995 when a young boy named Sergey Brin met for the first time the man, who would later become his business partner – Larry Page. This happened at Standford University and they quickly found that they have many common interests. Sergey had the task to show Larry around, who was a new student there. During their very first meeting, they didn’t stop arguing about every single topic they talked about. They had the opposite opinion on almost everything! Nobody would ever suggest, that these two rumbling guys...
