Facebook, Inc.

Name:	Facebook, Inc.
Industries:	Internet
Headquarters:	1601 S California Ave Palo Alto, California 94304 United States
Website:
www.facebook.com

About Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

Product
Facebook’s simplified navigation gives users easy access to core site functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox – pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have a prominent place at the top of the user’s profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are displayed on the left side bar, along with any third-party applications a user has added to their account.

Technology
Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.

Platform
Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to deeply integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users through the social graph. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. More information can be found at .

Privacy
Facebook has led the industry in giving people tools to control the information they share and with whom they choose to share it. User privacy has always been a top priority for the company, which has worked with such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and WiredSafety. Facebook is TrustE certified. Users also have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists.

Funding
Round one: $500,000 from Peter Thiel, Summer 2004; Round two: $12.7 million from Accel Partners, April 2005; Round three: $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners participating, and Accel Partners and Peter Thiel increasing their investment in the company.

Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Will Facebook Ever Be Replaced?

Much to its credit, Facebook (which may not even qualify as a start-up any longer) has stood firm in the rapid river that is the modern social web and has grown into one of the most powerful web properties online. Could it be that Facebook has found a unique formula that protects them from obsolescence ... - read more at Digg - Tech news

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Private Facebook Data Becomes Big Business

When a security researcher made personal profile information of more than 170 million Facebook users available to the public on BitTorrent--a peer-to-peer file sharing site--many questioned why he did not attempt to sell that information to an interested party. Names and profile data on that many Facebook ... - read more at NetworkWorld

tags: BitTorrent

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Disney throws $763m at social gaming

Getting animated about Facebook Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping ... - read more at The Register

tags: Disney Playdom

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Facebook's orbit may start to rival Google's

Social media: Is it the new search? San Francisco Business Times - by Patrick Hoge Send this story to a friend Spencer Brown Gigya's Yovanno pushes "social optimization." View Larger Facebook hitting 500 million members this month, as rumors swirl that Google is readying its own social networking venture, ... - read more at Topix

tags: Google

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'Top Secret America'—A Bust

In late July the Washington Post published an ambitious report on U.S. national security intelligence that we are told had taken the Post's staff two years to complete. The project was led by two competent and experienced reporters, Dana Priest and William Arkin, and the report has received an enthusiastic ... - read more at The New Republic - latest stories

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Waiting for 2012

Facebook isn't yet ready to deactivate its own privacy controls. The social-networking giant is likely to put off an initial public offering until 2012 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces a slew of pitfalls in the coming year that he would rather navigate out of the public eye, according to... - read more at New York Post

tags: CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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10 Things We Learned Today

Here's today's roundup of tech news in case you missed 'em: Facebook doesn't have any current IPO plans and may not ever happen, according to SAI. Google Earth has expanded to include real-time rain and snow. Oracle is accused of overcharging the U.S. government for software. The porn industry has expanded ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: Google Steve Jobs Microsoft Yahoo

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DENVER, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Animal Foundation (MAF), a nonprofit organization that promotes longer, healthier lives for animals through humane research, recently funded a study to determine how educated veterinarians and physicians are about dog bite prevention techniques. Only 21 percent ... - read more at RedOrbit

tags: Twitter

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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Mythology Edition

Hello there, weary travelers, winding your way — LOTR-like — toward the glimmering horizon that is the weekend. Isn't this is thing we call life one, big adventure? Nah, we didn't think so. That's why we've decided to make this week's YouTube roundup theme Mythology — so as to inject ... - read more at Mashable.com

tags: YouTube

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