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– Facebook goes public. In May 2012, Facebook went public, marking one of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) in US history. The company announced 421,233,615 shares priced at 38 dollars ...
Facebook is now 20 years old, but don’t expect a big party. The company hit a historic milestone Sunday, marking the day in 2004 when a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg went live with a new website.
February 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM. On February 4, 2004, a Harvard University undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg introduced TheFacebook.com, a social networking site for his fellow students. Twenty years ...
January 20: Product (news feed) Facebook announces that it will show fewer hoaxes in the news feed, and mark items it identifies as potential hoaxes so that readers can view them more critically. 2015: March 17: Product: Facebook introduces a free friend-to-friend payment service within its Messenger app.
On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a cleaner look. Facebook began migrating users to the new version in September 2008.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born () May 14, 1984) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded the social media service Facebook, along with his Harvard roommates in 2004, and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.
How the world's most popular social network has altered society, business and politics
Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]