Facebook. The company.

Facebook is a Palo Alto, CA-based social-networking site, that was created on February 2nd, 2004 by three Harvard roomates. This popular site now enables anyone with common affiliations to connect with one another (co-workers, classmates, friends).

September 04

• First important investment of $500,000 from Peter Thiel

2005

• Venture capital investment of $12.70M from Accel Partners
• +11.1 million users worldwide
•  Universities in New Zealand and Australia joined the Facebook network, after Canada, UK, New Mexico and Ireland

2006

• +5.5 billion pages viewed in February
• Wuckerberg turns down a $1 billion bid for its web site, hoping a $2 billion sale
• Venture capital investments of $25.00M from Silicon Valley firms Peter Thiel, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock
• Facebook opens to anyone with a valid e-mail address
• + $50M in annual revenue

2007

• May:  Launch of Facebook Platform allowing anyone to create applications that  interact with core Facebook features
• June: +8.5M photos updated daily, #1 web site for photo in the United States
• July:  +30M members registered worldwide
  • First publicly announced acquisition: Parakey (created by co-founders of Firefox)
  • 1700 new applications developed for the web site on July 12th
  •  200 employees
  • Daily new user average: 150,000
  • Monthly page view: 150 billion
• October 24th: $240.00M investment from Microsoft Corp for a 1.6 percent stake

Watch the following videos where Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder of Facebook, introduces his company at the CTIA in San Francisco, CA, this Wednesday.

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What Facebook has created for the past 4 years

By Mathieu Ramage,
Media and Editorial Manager of Atelier

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