Tuesday 25 September 2012

                                       FACEBOOK


who owns it?

Facebook is owned by the 28 year old Mark Zuckerberg, the worlds 2nd youngest billionaire worth just under 17.5 billion dollars. He launched Facebook of February the 4th 2004 from his Harvard dorm room now used by over 955 million people world wide.

Other Traditional Companies?

Facebook of course being a social networking site doesn't really own other companies however the current on the rise social networking site 'Instagram' officially was taken over by Facebook on September 6th 2012 for 1 billion dollars cash and is now apart of the Facebook company.

Revenue & overall worth?

Facebooks revenue currently stands at 3.71 billion dollars. The overall worth of Facebook also currently stands at juat over 100 billion dollars.

Facts and figures?

1) Current country most active on Facebook is USA with 155.6 Million users
2) It is the number one most used social networking site in every country other than six
3) It has an average of 526 million users every day.
4) Facebook market value of 104 billion dollars has vowed to take over Google's 203 billion and the leader Apple's 495 billion dollars
5) 

Inforgraphic?


Quotes?

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.


I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. 


The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?' 
Mark Zuckerberg 




Friday 21 September 2012

TOP TEN MEDIA COMPANIES


10) Viacom-
Closing price 7/21/11: $57.40

9) CBS-
Closing price 8/3/11: $26.70

8) Time Warner-
Closing price 7/21/11: $36.32

7) Google-
Closing price 7/21/11: $606.99

6) News Corp-
Closing price 7/21/11: $16.48

5) Amazon-
Closing price 7/21/11: $213.21

4) Walt Disney- Closing price 7/21/11: $40.74

3) Microsoft-
Closing price 7/21/11: $27.095

2) Apple-
Closing price 7/21/11: $387.29

1) General Electric-