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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. 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.
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]
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.
David Brent Baszucki [1] (/ b ə ˈ z uː k i /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his former Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation.
Former Roblox headquarters, now occupied by Guidewire Software. Roblox Corporation (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006.
Roblox Studio includes multiple premade game templates [16] [17] as well as the Toolbox, which allows access to user-created models, plug-ins, audio, images, meshes, video, and fonts. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Games, officially referred to as "experiences" on the platform, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] are scripted with Luau (stylized as Lua u ), a dialect of the Lua 5.1 ...
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 ...
[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. [6] [7] Following the acquisition, Bebo's business did ...