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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]
Christopher Lord co-founded the company in 2002. [3] [4] Criterion acquired social networking service Bebo in 2010. Bebo was previously owned by AOL, who originally purchased the service for $850 million in 2008. [5] The acquisition had failed as Bebo's business was declining. AOL sold the company for less than $10 million to Criterion.
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. Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits regarding the creation ...
The story of Facebook's beginnings are well known. As anyone who has seen "The Social Network" knows, a few Harvard undergrads, led by Mark Zuckerberg, created a student social networking site ...
In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,001 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. [249] [250] [251]
For example, a Facebook user can link their email account to their Facebook to find friends on the site, allowing the company to collect the email addresses of users and non-users alike. [216] Over time, countless data points about an individual are collected; any single data point perhaps cannot identify an individual, but together allows the ...