1) Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company, Accel Partners owns 10%, Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%. Dustin Moskovitz owns 6%, Eduardo Saverin owns 5%, Sean Parker owns 4%, Peter Thiel owns 3%, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners own between 1 to 2% each, Microsoft owns 1.3%, Li Ka-shing owns 0.75%, the Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%, a small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each, including Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, and Owen Van Natta, while Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus have sizable holdings of the company, and the remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors
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4) Facebooks revenue is $4.27 billion, since 2011
5) US$17.5 billion (2011)
6) Five key facts on Facebook:
- About 70 percent of Facebook users are outside the United States
-More than 30 billion pieces of content including links, photos, news stories, are shared each month.
-More than 150 million active users use Facebook on their mobile devices -- using 200 service providers in 60 countries.
-Facebook employs more than 1,700 people.
- Facebook, made in 2003 , In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time
7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Summaries: facebook started very basic, including pictures and just personal information about individuals. Over the years different aspects was included eg 2007, posting attachments on each other walls, 2006 news feed because it was to track people down, Zuckerberg apologised and created privacy accounts.
8) Key info from the homepage,
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