Facebook

== =[|Facebook]=

== Facebook was launched in 2004, by Marc Zuckerburg and his room mates as well as friends including, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Huges. At present Facebook ownership percentages are as follows; Mark Zuckerberg still owns 24% of the company and shares the company with, [|Accel Partners] : 10%, [|Digital Sky Technologies] : 10%, [|Dustin Moskovitz] : 6%, [|Eduardo Saverin] : 5%, [|Sean Parker] : 4%, [|Peter Thiel] : 3%, [|Greylock Partners] and [|Meritech Capital Partners] : between 1 to 2% each. Microsoft has increased its ownership since its initial purchase to 1.3%, [|Li Ka-shing] : 0.75%, the [|Interpublic Group] : less than 0.5%. A small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each. The remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors.



Worldwide Facebook.com has over 800 million active users, with more than 50% of these members logging on in any given day. This statistic was taken after it was reported in March 2011, that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost, cyber security [|[52]]. Facebook is globally used, which has led to there being more than 70 languages used on the site, with 75% of the users being outside of the US. In addtion to employment of over 3000 members of staff.

Facebook is becoming more and more reachable with, increased accessibilities. With more than 350 million active Facebook users, making use of the site through accessing profiles through mobile technologies such as, smartphone devices. Facebook mobile, along with other applications (at present 7 million) are becoming integrated with the site itself. Every month, more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or have some kind of Facebook experience on other sites.

The Facebook platform is a developmental platform that allows companies and engineers to connect with the facebook site and through integration gain access to millions of users via, the social graph. Facebook has now become part of millions of peoples lives providing distribution potential. In addtion to having the oppurtunity to build a business in relavance to people's lives.

Facebook headquaters are based internationally and can be seen listed below:
Headquartered in, Palo Alto, Calif. U.S. offices: Atlanta; Birmingham, Michigan; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; New York; Venice Beach, Calif.; Washington, DC; Austin International offices: Dublin; Hamburg; Hong Kong; Hyderabad; London; Madrid; Milan; Paris; Selangor; Singapore; Stockholm; Sydney; Tokyo; Toronto;

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