FACEBOOK HISTORY

Facebook site was first coined by Mark Zuckerberg. The history of the development of Facebook to reach 60 million active users of creativity Mark Zuckerberg started in college at Harvard. The following summary of the trip until now the birth of Facebook.

Elliot Mark Zuckerberg or Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York, United Serikat.Dia like to busy themselves with tinkering with electronic equipment or computer programs. At that time, she attended Exeter High School in New Hampshire. In school that he first became acquainted with Adam D'Angelo, who now becomes Chief of the Technical Officer or a Director of Facebook. Zuckerberg and D'Angelo had made the MP3 music player software that can detect behaviors and habits of its users listen to music and never want to be bought by Synapse but rejected by them.

After that Zuckerberg graduated and entered Harvard University. Originally made Coursematch program that allows students in the same class can view a list of friends next sekelas.Proyek make facemash.com. This is a rating site photos of students at Harvard. The visitors could give seals "cool" or "bad" photo of a student, and make Zuckerberg popular on campus and was called by the Administrative Board of Harvard University because it is considered breaking into the campus computer security systems, break the rules on Internet privacy, and violate the rights cipta.Karena This naughty student terterik to make Facebook and the launch in 2004. Only in a short time two-thirds of Harvard students has been a Facebook user.

Roommates, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hugh, succeeded in disseminating Facebook to Stanford University, Columbia, Yale, Ivy College, and several other schools in the Boston area. In a short time, they launched a Facebook into 30 schools. Moskovitz and Zuckerberg along with some other friends moved to Palo Alto, California, summer holidays in 2004 rented a small house to be used as an office. The plan they are on vacation while working, but because it was too cool to take care on facebook, they both decided not to return to Harvard to continue in college, so they settled there. In the office's Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, which gives fresh funds amounting to U.S. $ 500,000, and is the first investor, and so they can move to a bigger office at the University Avenue which was named as the office "Urban Campus."

In September 2004, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, the owner of social networking site Facebook sued Harvard Connection. They accuse Zuckerberg had used the program code that had been prepared for the site that was called UConnect, however, are ilegal.Pada end of 2004, the number of Facebook users has exceeded one million users, In May 2005, he took Accel Partners. Accel provides funding of U.S. $ 12.8 million for Facebook. On August 23, 2005 Zuckerberg buy the domain facebook.com from Aboutface Corporation worth U.S. $ 200,000 or approximately USD 1.86 billion. After that, they make an appearance to be a better facebook profile. On September 2, 2005, Zuckerberg launched a special Facebook site for kids high school. In only 15 days since its launch, most schools in the U.S. already a member. At the end of 2005, Facebook has covered about 2,000 campuses and 25,000 high schools in the U.S., Canada, UK, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. On February 27, 2006, Mark began to allow the students to use this site to add high school students as friends.

There is a word that Zuckerberg was negotiating with potential buyers Facebook. But, finally, he rejected the offer which allegedly worth U.S. $ 750 million or around Rp 6.97 trillion. The reason Zuckerberg thinks that price is too cheap. At that time, he estimates the value of Facebook for U.S. $ 2 billion. In April 2006, the first investor of this site, namely Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners, increase investment in Facebook by depositing funds of U.S. $ 25 million. Facebook went into India through the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management. Two months ago, Facebook was forced to spend money of U.S. $ 100,000 to settle a copyright issue with quizsender.com.

In July 2006, Facebook introduced a new service that can provide additional revenue for the company. By recruiting the giant computer company, Apple Inc, they work together to promote iTunes. Each week, iTunes will send 25 sample songs for free to Facebook users who are members of the Apple Student Group.Pada mid 2006, this site has been penetrated Europe and the Middle East. Facebook Notes, this new feature is a blogging feature that allows users to tagging, inserting images, and other features. In addition, users can import a blog from the site Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger and other blogging sites. Thanks to these new features, readers can comment on the published writings of Facebook users. September 2006, Zuckerberg opened Facebook services to all Internet users. However, this step precisely drawn protests from the users and loyal customers. As a result, two weeks ago Facebook was forced to fix it by opening a new service for the registration of internet users who have a mailing address or e-mail that clear.

Yahoo! Acquisition bid worth U.S. $ 1 billion. However, later realized the plan was canceled due to the financial performance of Yahoo! In late 2006 plunged. Peter Thiel, predicts revenue this site later in 2015 could reach U.S. $ 1 billion. At that time, the company will participate rocketed to about U.S. $ 8 billion. Free classifieds in Facebook, a feature that is named Facebook Marketplace was launched on May 14, 2007. This new service immediately became a competitor of other online companies. Craigslist is already placing classified advertisements on its website. Business Zuckerberg also increasingly flowing smoothly. In fact, Apple is willing to extend cooperation with Facebook to display examples of iTunes music.

Facebook Parakey Inc. bought the company., From Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, in July 2007. Parakey is a manufacturer of computer applications that facilitate data transfer text, images, and videos to a site on the internet. Gideon Yu, former Director of Finance of You Tube, Facebook became the Finance Director. Bill Gates, in October 2007 to buy 1.6% stake in Facebook worth U.S. $ 240 million. The reason, Zuckerberg did not intend to sell all shares of Facebook altogether. The reason is simple and really noble, he wants to keep Facebook independent.

On 7 November 2007, the site launched its latest service in the form of advertising with a system called Facebook Beacon. The squillionaires Hong Kong, Li Ka-shing, is interested to invest shares worth U.S. $ 60 million in Facebook, on November 30, 2007. Approximately 60 million active users by the end of last year. Total own employees has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a unique company. their top executives and young, between 24 years-37 years.

Facebook's headquarters looks more like a dormitory mahasiswa.Para employees, who every day get free food rations, working while doing her favorite activity. There are playing guitar, bicycling, playing the control plane, or swaying accompanied by a disc jockey (DJ). They also do not need to dress neatly. Shorts and flip-flops is their favorite costumes in the office. Zuckerberg admitted reluctantly that the office atmosphere is too formal. Although able to collect their assets to U.S. $ 3 billion, or around Rp 27.9 trillion, Zuckerberg continue to appear as it is, like most young men who like casual wear. He also still lives in a studio type apartment with makeshift furniture: a mattress that is placed just above the floor and two chairs.