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Bebo (/ ˈ b iː b oʊ / BEE-boh) was an American social networking website that originally operated from 2005 until its bankruptcy in 2013 and relaunched in February 2021. The site relaunched several times after its bankruptcy with a number of short-lived offerings, including instant messaging and video streaming, until its acquisition by Amazon in July 2019 when it was shut down.
Birch and Xochi later founded the online social networking website Bebo [5] in January 2005, with a major launch in July 2005. In 2007, Bebo had over 45 million registered users and was the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk. [6] Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million.
Xochi Birch OBE (/ ˈ s oʊ tʃ i /) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur in San Francisco, California.She is the co-founder of several companies since 1999, most notably the online social networking website Bebo, with her husband Michael Birch. [1]
Bebo is purchased from Criterion Capitol Partners for $1 million by Bebo's founders. [72] 2013 Launch Instant messaging and video/voice calling service Google Hangouts launches. [73] 2013 Launch Telegram, launches service for exchange messages, share media, files, live location, hold private and group voice or video calls, as well public ...
Facebook announces that it is shutting down its friends data API, forcing developers to migrate to the Graph API. The company is also allowing for more granular control of data that users may share with apps. [496] [497] [498] 2015: May 12: Product: Facebook launches "Instant Articles" for Publishers. [499]
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.
Bebo's development continued under Shields with the release of Timeline in 2009, the first social network to organise and represent life events in a linear way. [13] Timeline eventually became standard on social networks when Facebook released the feature in 2012.
He subsequently co-founded Playfire, the largest social network for video games. [3] Playfire raised $3.1M in funding from prominent investors including Niklas Zennström (the founder of Skype), Michael Birch (the founder of Bebo), Chris Deering (the former chairman of Sony), William Reeve (the founder of LoveFilm) and others. [4]