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History of Facebook
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Facebook is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004.[1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[2] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,[3] and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada,[4][5] corporations,[6] and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older.[7][8]
FaceMash[edit]
FaceMash, Facebook's predecessor, opened in 2003, developed by Mark Zuckerberg; he wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of "hot or not" game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two female student pictures side by side and let them decide who was more attractive.[9]
While writing the software, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries:[10]
I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.[10]
Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm animals ...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.
According to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash used "photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the "hotter" person".[9] Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.[12]
The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy. Ultimately, the charges were dropped.[9] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final exam. He uploaded art images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section, then shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes.[13]
On October 25, 2010, entrepreneur and banker Rahul Jain auctioned off FaceMash.com to an unknown buyer for $30,201.[14][15]
Facebook[edit]
A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and basic information.[12] In 2003, there were no universal online facebooks at Harvard, with only paper sheets distributed[16] and private online directories.[9][17] Zuckerberg told the Crimson that "Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. ... I think it's kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week."[17] In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website, known as "TheFacebook", with the inspiration coming from an editorial in the Crimson about Facemash, stating that "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website is readily available ... the benefits are many." Zuckerberg met with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin, and each of them agreed to invest $1,000 in the site.[10] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched it under the name of "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.[18]
Zuckerberg also stated his intention to create a universal website that could connect people around the university. According to his roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, "When Mark finished the site, he told a couple of friends ... then one of them suggested putting it on the Kirkland House online mailing list, which was ... three hundred people." Moskovitz continued to say that, "By the end of the night, we were ... actively watching the registration process. Within twenty-four hours, we had somewhere between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred registrants."[19]
Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.[20] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Zuckerberg tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled.[20][21]
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard University. Within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.[22] Zuckerberg was joined in the promotion of the site by Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[3] This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston-area schools. It gradually reached most universities in the United States and Canada.[23][24][25] Facebook was incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[26] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[3] The company dropped 'The' from its name after purchasing the domain namefacebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[27]
By December 2005, Facebook had 6 million users.[28]
On October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom and others around the world. Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[44] At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join.[45] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[46] On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 2,000+ colleges and 25,000+ high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone aged 13 and older with a valid email address.[7][8]
Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract potential customers and tell about themselves. These started as group pages, but a new concept called company pages was planned.[47]
In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[48]
In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process,[49] and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve computational problems which gave them an opportunity to be hired by Facebook.[50]
As of February 2011, Facebook had become the largest online photo host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have 100 billion photos by summer 2011.[51] As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic.[52]
On March 12, 2012, Yahoo! filed suit in a U.S. federal court against Facebook weeks before the scheduled Facebook initial public offering. In its court filing, Yahoo! said that Facebook had infringed on ten of its patents covering advertising, privacy controls and social networking. Yahoo! had threatened to sue Facebook a month before the filing, insisting that the social network license its patents. A spokesperson for Facebook issued a statement saying "We're disappointed that Yahoo, a long-time business partner of Facebook and a company that has substantially benefited from its association with Facebook, has decided to resort to litigation".[53] The lawsuit claims that Yahoo!'s patents cover basic social networking ideas such as customizing website users' experiences to their needs, adding that the patents cover ways of targeting ads to individual users.[54] In 2012, Facebook App Center, an online mobile store, was rolled out. The store initially had 500 Facebook apps which were mostly games.[55]
On April 24, 2014, Facebook and Storyful announced a new feature called FB Newswire.[56]
Financials[edit]
Initial funding[edit]
Facebook was initially incorporated as a Florida LLC. For the first few months after its launch in February 2004, the costs for the website operations for thefacebook.com were paid for by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, who had taken equity stakes in the company. The website also ran a few advertisements to meet its operating costs.[57]
First angel investment[edit]
In the summer of 2004, venture capitalistPeter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2% of the company and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside investment in Facebook.[58][59][60]
In his book The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick outlines the story of how Thiel came to make his investment: former Napster and Plaxo employee Sean Parker, who at the time had assumed the title of "President" of Facebook, was seeking investors for Facebook. Parker approached Reid Hoffman, the CEO of work-based social network LinkedIn. Hoffman liked Facebook but declined to be the lead investor because of the potential for conflict of interest with his duties as LinkedIn CEO. He redirected Parker to Peter Thiel, whom he knew from their PayPal days (both Hoffman and Thiel are considered members of the PayPal Mafia). Thiel met Parker and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard college student who had founded Facebook and controlled it. Thiel and Zuckerberg got along well and Thiel agreed to lead Facebook's seed round with $500,000 for 10.2% of the company. Hoffman and Mark Pincus also participated in the round, along with Maurice Werdegar who led the investment on behalf of Western Technology Investment. The investment was originally in the form of a convertible note, to be converted to equity if Facebook reached 1.5 million users by the end of 2004. Although Facebook narrowly missed the target, Thiel allowed the loan to be converted to equity anyway.[61] Thiel said of his investment:
I was comfortable with them pursuing their original vision. And it was a very reasonable valuation. I thought it was going to be a pretty safe investment."[61]
Accel investment (Series A)[edit]
In April 2005, Accel Partners agreed to make a $12.7 million venture capital investment in a deal that valued Facebook at $98 million. Accel joined Facebook's board, and the board was expanded to five seats, with Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Breyer in three of the seats, and the other two seats currently being empty but with Zuckerberg free to nominate anybody to those seats.[62]
Greylock investment (Series B)[edit]
In April 2006, Facebook closed its Series B funding round. This included $27.5 million from a number of venture capitalists, including Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital, plus additional investments from Peter Thiel and Accel Partners. The valuation for this round was about $500 million.[60][63][64]
A leaked cash flow statement showed that during the 2005 fiscal year, Facebook had a net gain of $5.66 million.[65]
Sales negotiations[edit]
With the sale of social networking website MySpace to News Corp on July 19, 2005, rumours surfaced about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.[66] Zuckerberg had already stated that he did not want to sell the company, and denied rumors to the contrary.[67] On March 28, 2006, BusinessWeek reported that a potential acquisition of Facebook was under negotiation. Facebook reportedly declined an offer of $750 million from an unknown bidder, and it was rumored the asking price rose as high as $2 billion.[68]
In September 2006, serious talks between Facebook and Yahoo! took place concerning acquisition of Facebook, with prices reaching as high as $1 billion.[69][70] Thiel, by then a board member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook's internal valuation was around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015, comparable to Viacom's MTV brand, a company with a shared target demographic audience.[71]
On July 17, 2007, Zuckerberg said that selling Facebook was unlikely because he wanted to keep it independent, saying "We're not really looking to sell the company ... We're not looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."[72] In September 2007, Microsoft approached Facebook, proposing an investment in return for a 5% stake in the company, offering an estimated $300–500 million.[73] That month, other companies, including Google, expressed interest in buying a portion of Facebook.[74]
Microsoft investment (Series C)[edit]
On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[75] However, Microsoft bought preferred stock that carried special rights, such as "liquidation preferences" that meant Microsoft would get paid before common stockholders if the company were sold. Microsoft's purchase also included the right to place international ads on Facebook.[76] In November 2007, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested $60 million in Facebook.[77]
Switch to profitability[edit]
In August 2008, BusinessWeek reported that private sales by employees, as well as purchases by venture capital firms, were being done at share prices that put the company's total valuation at between $3.75 billion and $5 billion.[76] In October 2008, Zuckerberg said "I don't think social networks can be monetized in the same way that search did ... In three years from now we have to figure out what the optimum model is. But that is not our primary focus today."[78]
Facebook hired Sheryl Sandberg as its Chief Operating Officer in March 2008. Sandberg is reported to have held a number of brainstorming sessions with Facebook employees on their long-term monetization strategy, which led to the conclusion that advertising would be the main source of monetization. Under Sandberg's leadership, Facebook made a number of changes to its advertising model with the aim of achieving profitability. In September 2009, Facebook stated that it had turned cash flow positive for the first time.[79]
In early 2012, Facebook disclosed that its profits had jumped 65% to $1 billion in the previous year when its revenue, which is mainly from advertising, had jumped almost 90% to $3.71 billion.[80] Facebook also reported that 56% of its advertising revenue comes from the U.S. alone, and that 12% of its revenue comes from Zynga, the social network game development company. Payments and other fees were $557 million up from $106 million the previous year.[81]
Acquisitions[edit]
In August 2009, Facebook acquired social media real-time news aggregatorFriendFeed,[82] a startup created by Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit.[83][84][85]
In February 2010, Facebook acquired Malaysian contact-importing startup Octazen Solutions.[86] On April 2, 2010, Facebook announced acquisition of a photo-sharing service called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount.[87] In June 2010, an online marketplace for trading private Facebook stock reflected a valuation of $11.5 billion.[88]
On April 12, 2012, Facebook acquired photo sharing service Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock.[89][90]
On March 8, 2013, Facebook announced that they acquired the team from Storylane, but not the product itself.[91] On October 13, 2013, Facebook acquired Onavo, an Israeli analytics company, for approximately $120 million.[92][93][94]
On February 19, 2014, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp, a smartphone instant messaging application for $19 billion in a mix of stock and cash. The acquisition is the most ever paid for a venture-capital backed startup.[95]
On March 25, 2014, Facebook announced they had acquired virtual reality startup Oculus VR for $2 billion in cash and stock.[96]
In April 2020, Facebook, Inc. bought a 9.9% stake in Jio, which was the highest foreign direct investment in the Indian technology sector.[97][98]
Initial public offering[edit]
Facebook filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on February 1, 2012.[99] The preliminary prospectus stated that the company was seeking to raise $5 billion. The document announced that the company had 845 million active monthly users and its website featured 2.7 billion daily likes and comments.[100] After the IPO, Zuckerberg retains a 22% ownership share in Facebook and owns 57% of the voting shares.[101]
Underwriters valued the shares at $38 each, pricing the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly public company.[102] On May 16, one day before the IPO, Facebook announced that it would sell 25% more shares than originally planned due to high demand.[103] The IPO raised $16 billion, making it the third largest in U.S. history (just ahead of AT&T Wireless and behind only General Motors and Visa Inc.).[104][105] The stock price left the company with a higher market capitalization than all but a few U.S. corporations – surpassing heavyweights such as Amazon.com, McDonald's, Disney, and Kraft Foods – and made Zuckerberg's stock worth $19 billion.[104][105]The New York Times stated that the offering overcame questions about Facebook's difficulties in attracting advertisers to transform the company into a "must-own stock". Jimmy Lee of JPMorgan Chase described it as "the next great blue-chip".[104] Writers at TechCrunch, on the other hand, expressed skepticism, stating, "That's a big multiple to live up to, and [Facebook] will likely need to add bold new revenue streams to justify the mammoth valuation".[106]
Trading in the stock, which began on May 18, was delayed that day due to technical problems with the NASDAQ exchange.[107] The stock struggled to stay above the IPO price for most of the day, forcing underwriters to buy back shares to support the price.[108] At closing bell, shares were valued at $38.23,[109] only $0.23 above the IPO price and down $3.82 from the opening bell value. The opening was widely described by the financial press as a disappointment.[110] The stock nonetheless set a new record for trading volume of an IPO.[111] On May 25, 2012, the stock ended its first full week of trading at $31.91, a 16.5% decline.[112]
On 22 May, regulators from Wall Street's Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that they had begun to investigate whether banks underwriting Facebook had improperly shared information only with select clients, rather than the general public. Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin subpoenaed Morgan Stanley over the same issue.[113] The allegations sparked "fury" among some investors and led to the immediate filing of several lawsuits, one of them a class action suit claiming more than $2.5 billion in losses due to the IPO.[114]Bloomberg estimated that retail investors may have lost approximately $630 million on Facebook stock since its debut.[115]
Timeline[edit]
| Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | October 28 | Prelude | Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook. It is described as a Harvard University version of Hot or Not.[116] |
| 2004 | January | Creation | Mark Zuckerberg begins with his fellow co-founders writing Facebook.[117] |
| 2004 | February 4 | Creation | Zuckerberg launches Facebook as a Harvard-only social network.[118][119] |
| 2004 | April 13 | Financial/legal | Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership.[120] |
| 2004 | June | Funding | Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000.[60] |
| 2004 | July 29 | Financial/legal | Facebook incorporates into a new company,[121] and Sean Parker (early employee of Napster) becomes its president.[26] |
| 2004 | August | Product | To compete with growing campus-only service i2hub, Zuckerberg launches Wirehog. It is a precursor to Facebook Platform applications.[122] |
| 2004 | September | Financial/legal | ConnectU files a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and other Facebook founders.[120] |
| 2004 | December 30 | Userbase | Facebook achieves its one millionth registered user.[123] |
| 2005 | May 26 | Funding | Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook.[120] |
| 2005 | July 19 | Acquisition talks | News Corp acquires MySpace, spurring rumors about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.[124] |
| 2005 | August 23 | Product | Facebook acquires Facebook.com domain for $200,000.[120] |
| 2005 | September | Product | Facebook launches a high school version of the website.[125] |
| 2005 | October | Userbase | Facebook expands to UK universities. Cambridge, Oxford and the University of the West of England are the first three UK universities on the platform. |
| 2005 | October | Product | Facebook launches its photos feature with no restrictions on storage (but without the ability to tag friends).[126] |
| 2005 | December | Product | Facebook introduces the ability to tag friends in photos.[126] |
| 2006 | March 28 | Acquisition talks | A potential acquisition of Facebook is reportedly under negotiations, for $750 million first, then later $2 billion.[68] |
| 2006 | April | Userbase | Facebook expands its membership requirements to include corporate employees.[127] |
| 2006 | August 22 | Product | Facebook launches a blogging feature known as "Facebook Notes".[128] |
| 2006 | September 26 | Userbase | Membership is opened to anyone.[129] |
| 2006 | September 6 | Product (news feed) | Facebook launches News Feed.[130] The original news feed is an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. The concept was relatively new at the time, with Twitter having launched only a few months in advance. |
| 2006 | September | Acquisition talks | Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion.[68] |
| 2007 | January 10 | Product | Facebook launches m.facebook.com and officially announces mobile support.[131] |
| 2007 | May 24 | Product | Facebook announces Facebook Platform for developers to build applications on top of Facebook's social graph.[132][133] |
| 2007 | October 24 | Funding | Microsoft announces that it will purchase a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. However, Microsoft also gained ad exclusivity in this deal, so the $15 billion valuation figure is disputed.[75] |
| 2007 | November 6 | Product (news feed) | Facebook launches Facebook Beacon with 44 partner sites at the time of launch. Beacon is part of Facebook's advertisement system that sends data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends. Certain activities on partner sites are published to a user's News Feed.[134] On the same day, Facebook launched Facebook Pages.[135] |
| 2007 | November 19 | Product | Facebook removes "is" from status updates, allowing users to adopt a more free-form version of status updates.[136] |
| 2008 | May | Team | Adam D'Angelo, an early employee and chief technology officer, leaves Facebook.[137] |
| 2008 | June | Financial/legal | Facebook settles both lawsuits, ConnectU vs Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg et al. and intellectual property theft, Wayne Chang et al. over The Winklevoss Chang Group's Social Butterfly project. The settlement effectively had Facebook acquiring ConnectU for $20 million in cash and over $1.2 million in shares, valued at $45 million based on $15 billion company valuation.[138] |
| 2008 | July 21 | Product | Facebook launches a complete site redesign with options for tabbed redesign, and allows users to opt into it.[139][140] By September 2008, it forces all users to opt-in.[141] |
| 2008 | August | Financial/legal | Employees reportedly privately sell their shares to venture capital firms, at a company valuation of between $3.75 billion to $5 billion.[76] |
| 2008 | October | Physical location | Facebook sets up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[142] |
| 2008 | November | Product | Facebook launches Facebook Credits in order to help users purchase Facebook gifts.[143] |
| 2009 | February 9 | Product | Facebook activates the Facebook like button.[144] |
| 2009 | August | Acquisition | Facebook acquires FriendFeed.[145] |
| 2009 | September | Financial/legal | Facebook claims that it has turned cash flow positive for the first time.[146] |
| 2009 | September 10 | Product | Facebook announces a feature whereby people can @-tag friends in their status updates and comments.[147][148] |
| 2009 | September | Product | Facebook shuts down Beacon. |
| 2010 | February | Acquisition | Facebook acquires Malaysian contact-importing startup Octazen Solutions.[149] |
| 2010 | April 2 | Acquisition | Facebook announces the acquisition of photo-sharing service called Divvy-shot for an undisclosed amount.[150] |
| 2010 | April 19 | Product | Facebook introduces Community Pages, which are Pages that are populated with articles from Wikipedia.[151] |
| 2010 | June | Financial/legal | Facebook employees sell shares of the company on SecondMarket at a company valuation of $11.5 billion.[152] |
| 2010 | June | Product | Facebook introduces the option to Like individual comments. |
| 2010 | October 1 | Popular culture | The Social Network, a film about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher & stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened. |
| 2010 | December | Product | Facebook launches a redesign that emphasizes the most important parts of someone's life, including one's biographic information, photos, education, work experience, and important relationships. It replaces the tabs at the top of each profile page with links on the left side of the page.[153] |
| 2011 | January | Funding | $500 million is invested into Facebook for 1% of the company, placing its worth at $50 billion.[154] |
| 2011 | February | Product | Facebook application and content aggregator Pixable estimates that Facebook will host 100 billion photos by summer 2011.[155] |
| 2011 | June 28 | Competition | Google launches Google+, widely perceived as a competitor to Facebook. Commentators believe that Facebook's subsequent rapid release of new features and improvements may have in part been hastened due to competition from Google+.[156][157] |
| 2011 | July 6 | Product | Facebook partners with Skype to add video chat and updates its website interface.[158] |
| 2011 | August 9, then October 19 | Product | Facebook Messenger is launched for Android and IOS. October 19, 2011 update makes the app available to Blackberry os.[159] |
| 2011 | September, then November 30 | Product | Facebook increases the character limit for status update posts from 500 to 5,000 in September and to 63,206 on November 30.[157] |
| 2011 | September 14 | Product | Facebook allows people to subscribe to non-friends and to set the extent to which they receive updates from their existing friends and people they are subscribing to.[160] |
| 2011 | September 15 | Product | Facebook partners with Heroku for Facebook application development using the Facebook Platform.[161] |
| 2011 | September 22 | Product | Facebook launches new UI Timeline in F8 Convention. |
| 2011 | October 6 | Accessibility | Facebook for SIM, a client/server SIM application developed by international digital security company Gemalto that enables people to access Facebook using the SMS protocol on their mobile phones, without needing a data plan, is released in partnership with select carriers.[162] |
| 2011 | October 10 | Accessibility | Facebook launches iPad app.[163] |
| 2011 | December 21 | Product | Facebook login page changes due to Facebook Timeline addition. |
| 2012 | January 10 | Product (news feed) | Facebook starts showing advertisements (called Featured Posts) in the news feed. The advertisements are generally for pages that one's Facebook friends have engaged with.[164][165] |
| 2012 | April | Acquisition | Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion.[166] |
| 2012 | May 12 | Financial/legal | Facebook IPO: Facebook goes public, negotiating a share price of $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company.[167] |
| 2012 | June 13 | Product | Facebook launches Facebook Exchange (FBX), a real-time bidding ad system where advertisers can bid on users based on third-party websites visited by the users (as tracked by a cookie on the third-party website).[168][169] |
| 2012 | October | Userbase | Facebook reaches 1 billion active users.[170] |
| 2013 | January 15 | Product | Facebook announces and begins rolling out Facebook Graph Search.[171] |
| 2013 | January 30, then April 9 | Product | Facebook rolls out detailed and fine-grained emoticons to express different actions and emotional states in one's status updates (experimental launch January 30, official launch with universal availability April 9).[172][173] |
| 2013 | March 7 | Product (news feed) | Facebook announces major planned changes to the News Feed.[174] However, it is later revealed that Facebook abandoned these changes after getting negative feedback from users.[175] |
| 2013 | March 8 | Acquisition | Facebook announces that they acquired the team from Storylane, but not the product itself.[176] |
| 2013 | April 4, then April 12 | Product (mobile-only) | Facebook launches Facebook Home, a user interface layer for Android-compatible phones that provides a replacement home screen that makes it easier for users to browse and post.[177][178] |
| 2013 | April 15 | Product | Facebook launches a new timeline with Video Autoplay. |
| 2013 | April–July | Product | Facebook launches Stickers, initially only for its iOS apps in April,[179][180] but later expanding to its web version in July.[181] |
| 2013 | June 12, then June 27 | Product | Facebook announces support for hashtags, initially only for the web (June 12).[182][183] Later (June 27), more functionality is added and hashtags are extended to the mobile site and apps.[184] |
| 2013 | June 30 | Political activism | Zuckerberg joins 700 Facebook employees for the June 2013 Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration march in San Francisco, U.S. The 2013 Pride celebration was especially significant, as it followed a Supreme Court of the United States ruling that deemed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.[185][186] |
| 2013 | August 20 | Userbase/accessibility | Facebook launches Internet.org in collaboration with six cellphone companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera Software, and Qualcomm). Internet.org aims to bring affordable Internet access to everybody by increasing affordability, increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.[187][188][189][190] |
| 2013 | September 26 | Product | Facebook begins letting people edit their posts and comments after publishing.[191][192] |
| 2013 | September 29 | Product | Facebook announces that it will begin rolling out Graph Search for posts and comments.[193][194] |
| 2013 | October 13 | Acquisition | Facebook acquires Onavo, an Israeli analytics company, for approximately $120 million.[195][196][197] |
| 2013 | November 13 | Acquisition talks | A number of news outlets reports that Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion USD but was spurned.[198][199] |
| 2013 | December 18 | Financial/legal | Facebook, Zuckerberg, & banks face IPO lawsuit.[200] |
| 2014 | January 13 | Acquisition | Facebook acquires Branch Media, and it is announced that the team working on the startup will join Facebook to work on conversations products for Facebook that builds on similar ideas as Branch Media's products, while Branch Media's existing products will continue to operate separately. Facebook confirms that the acquisition is a talent acquisition.[201][202] |
| 2014 | January 16 | Product | Facebook launches Trending Topics for its web version in the US, UK, Canada, India, and Australia.[203][204] This is based on feedback to a pilot version tested both on the web and mobile starting August 2013.[205][206] |
| 2014 | January 30, then February 3 | Product (mobile-only) | On January 30, Facebook announces Facebook Paper, a separate iOS app that provides a newspaper-like or magazine-like experience for reading on the phone, scheduled for launch on February 3.[207] Facebook also announces Facebook Creative Labs, an intra-company effort to have separate teams working on separate mobile apps that specialize in different facets related to the Facebook experience, rather than trying to make changes to Facebook's main web version, mobile version, or its iOS and Android apps, and says that Facebook Paper is the first product of Facebook Creative Labs.[175][208][209] Facebook Paper receives mixed reviews, and some commentators note its similarity with Flipboard.[210][211] |
| 2014 | February 4 | Milestone | Facebook marks the ten-year anniversary of its launch (February 4, 2004), and Mark Zuckerberg writes a public post about why he is proud of Facebook so far.[212][213][214] The Pew Research Center releases a report about increasing Facebook usage by adults to mark the occasion.[215] Many other commentators write articles about Facebook to honor the occasion.[175][216][217][218] |
| 2014 | February 4–7 | Product | On February 4, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Facebook introduces its Look Back feature that creates an automated video for each person looking back on the person's life as recorded on Facebook.[219] On February 7, Facebook adds the ability to edit the Look Back videos.[220] |
| 2014 | February 13 | Political activism | Facebook opens up many new LGBTQ-friendly gender identity and pronoun options.[221][222][223][224] |
| 2014 | February 19 | Acquisition | Facebook announces that it is acquiring the Sequoia Capital-backed multi-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $16 billion USD ($4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares) plus an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing.[225][226][227][228][229][230] According to the announcement, WhatsApp will continue to operate independently, Facebook will continue developing Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum will join the Facebook Board of Directors.[225] On February 24, in a keynote address to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Zuckerberg says that the WhatsApp acquisition is part of the Internet.org vision.[231] |
| 2014 | March 3 | Acquisition | Rumors are circulated that Facebook is buying drone maker Titan Aerospace for $60 million. It is believed that the acquisition will help bolster Facebook's vision with Internet.org.[232][233] Later, on April 14, 2014, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is acquiring Titan Aerospace.[234] |
| 2014 | March 6 | Product (news feed) | Facebook announces that it will begin rollout of a somewhat modified news feed. The changes are along the same lines as those announced in the planned revamp announced March 7, 2013 (that was halted), but are more minor and focused.[235][236][237] |
| 2014 | March 17 | Product | Facebook's face recognition algorithm (DeepFace) reaches near-human accuracy in identifying faces.[238][239] |
| 2014 | March 25 | Acquisition | Facebook announces that it is acquiring Oculus VR, Inc., a leading virtual reality company.[240][241] The amount is reported to be $2 billion in cash and stock.[242][243][244] |
| 2014 | March 27 | Accessibility | Facebook announces a Connectivity Lab as part of the Internet.org initiative, with the goal of bringing the Internet to everybody via drones, using acqhires from Ascenta.[245][246][247][248] |
| 2014 | April 24 | Product | Facebook announces FB Newswire to help journalists find news on its website.[249] |
| 2014 | April 30 | Product, accessibility | Facebook launches anonymous login so that people can use apps without giving them their data.[250] |
| 2014 | June 18 | Product (mobile-only) | Facebook releases Facebook Slingshot, an instant messaging software application for sharing photos and videos with friends, for Android and iOS devices.[251][252][253][254][255] |
| 2014 | July 21 | Product | Facebook launches Save, a read-it-later feature that allows users to save links, places, and media pages for later perusal.[256] |
| 2014 | September 15 onward | Userbase/controversy | Facebook cracks down on the Facebook profiles of drag queens in San Francisco, asking them to switch to using their real names, and shutting down the accounts of those who refuse to comply.[257] There is considerable pushback, including a planned protest at Facebook headquarters, that is delayed for a meeting with Facebook, but Facebook refuses to budge on its policy.[258] Many people, particularly those in or sympathetic to the LGBTQ community, sign up for competing social network Ello |
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How To Upgrade To Windows 10 For ‘Free’ In 2020 [Updated]
Windows 10 still has problems but Windows 7 is about to hit the scrap heap (and Windows 8 is a pointless sideways move). As such, millions of users must soon jump to Windows 10 for the safety of their data and Microsoft charges $139 for the standard edition. But what if I told you there’s a legal way you can still upgrade for free?
02/04 Update: Now Windows 7 has now reached end of life it is no longer safe to store your data on the platform because all new vulnerabilities will be left exposed. Consequently. I’ve received a lot of updates asking if this free upgrade hack for Windows 10 still works. I've just retested it and it does. I will continue to check this monthly due to high demand.
Yes, this is no joke. Despite Microsoft ending its free Windows 10 upgrade offer to all users on July 30, 2016, the company has (in my opinion, knowingly) left open a loophole. There’s just one snag: you will need a legal copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 to do this.
Tip: if you don’t have one, you can buy a legal copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 at third part retailers for a fraction of the cost of a Windows 10 licence. Home licences update to Windows 10 Home, Pro licences update to Windows 10 Pro, so choose carefully.
With that caveat out the way, here’s how you get your Windows 10 free upgrade:
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- Choose: 'Upgrade this PC now' then click ‘Next’
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Note: a Windows 10 licence is tied to your hardware. As such, if you need to format your computer for any reason Windows 10 will reactivate automatically.
Tip: if you change multiple components in your PC as part of a device upgrade, Windows 10 may mistakenly think you’ve bought a new PC and refuse to register the licence automatically. Thankfully, Microsoft has a simple process you can follow if that happens.
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- Xbox One Wireless Controller - (typically $59.99) - Amazon: Offers from $32.99 / Target: $46.49 / Walmart: $46.88
- XBOX VIDEO GAME SALE - up to $30 off titles like FIFA 20, Gears 5 ($60 to $35), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ($60 to $38), Marvel's Spiderman ($40 to $19), Red Dead Redemption 2 ($60 to $39), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order ($60 to $45) and more - Amazon / Best Buy / Costco (members only) / Target / Walmart
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