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2 Founded in December 2002 and launched in May

2003
2 Created by Reid Hoffman in Mountain View, CA,
USA
2 LinkedIn's CEO is Dan Nye, previously a Yahoo!
Inc. executive.
2 Has around 75mn members spread in around 200
countries
2 Executives from all Fortune 500 cos are linkedin
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2 User Subscriptions
2 Advertising Sales
2 Software Licencing
 

 
2 Dain Capital Ventures invests $53M
2 LinkedIn raises $22.7 million from Goldman
Sachs, Dessemer, The McGraw Hill Companies,
and SAP Ventures
2 LinkedIn launches Survey Dusiness
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2 Linkedin establishes operations to connect
India͛s professionals.
2 LinkedIn works with twitter and vice versa
2 LinkedIn is also coming for blackberry
2 CNDC & LinkedIn announces strategic alliance
2 Acquisition of mspoke.
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2 Family Oriented social networking service.
2 Privately held company found in year 2003
2 Headquarters at Dnei Atarot, Israel (near Tel
Aviv)
2 Founder & CEO Gilad Japhet
 
2 51 mn members with more then 600 million
online profiles.
2 More thn 15 mn family trees & 91 mn photos
on the website.
2 Available in 35 langusges.
2 World͛s 2nd largest genealogy company in the
world.
2 Aquired Kindo & Germany online social
networking.
  
2 Family pages
2 Celebrity Look Alike
2 Timeline & Timebook
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2 It͛s a subsidiary of News Corporation.
2 Founded 2003 in Santa Monica, CA (USA)
2 Headquarters Deverly Hills, CA(USA)
2 The 100 millionth account was created on
August 9, 2006 in the Netherlands.
2 After the launch of Friendster within 10 days
1st version of Myspace was launched.
  



2 Myspace music revamped in 208 09.
2 Few classic features were abolished
2 Navigation Dar has been made simpler to find
features quickly.
2 Cos such as youtube, rockyou were all
launched on myspace thereby providing
additional functionality
2 All this was to gain a larger share of youth͛s
attention.
 
 
2 Color scheme has been made similar.
2 Homepage as also been revamped.
2 In 2009 status update feature was also added.
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2 Revenue is generated solely through
Advertising .(No paid features)
2 Collaboration with GOOGLE
2 Politics-in 2008 presidential election of US ,
the candidates used myspace for their
campaigns.