SUCCESSFUL ONLINE

BUSINESSES
BY ISAAC VARGAS

1. APPLE
Founded in April 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald
Wayne

Created their first computer 10 days after the company was

founded

Best known for the iPod, iPhone, iMac, iPad, and iWatch.
Link: http://www.apple.com/

2.
Founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Started as a research project by the creators in 1996 while at
Stanford University

Bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion

Largest search engine today
Revenue of $66.001 billion, as of 2014
Link: https://www.google.com/?safe=active&ssui=on

3.
Introduced in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley,
and Jawed Karim

Bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion

Worlds largest video sharing website
Revenue of $1.62 billion, as of 2015
Link: https://www.youtube.com/

4.
Founded in 2004 by Harvard University sophomore Mark
Zuckerberg

Worlds largest social network

Most visited website of 2010
Revenue of $12.466 billion, as of 2014
Link: https://www.facebook.com/

5.
Founded in February 2007 by entrepreneur David Karp
Largest microblogging site
Bought by Yahoo! in 2013 for #1.1 billion
Revenue of $100 million by 2015
Link: https://www.tumblr.com/

6.
Established in August 1997
Largest DVD rental program
Reached 69.17 million subscribers, with 43 million from the
U.S.

Revenue of $5.50 billion, as of 2014

Link: https://www.netflix.com/

7.
Founded in September 1995 by Pierre Omidyar
Largest bidding website
Revenue of $17.90 billion, as of 2014
Link: http://www.ebay.com/

8.
Founded in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz
Stone, and Noah Glass

One of the largest social networking sites, along with

Facebook

Revenue of $1010.8 million as of 2015

Link: https://twitter.com/

9.
Founded in August 2003 by online programmers Priit
Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn

Allows people to video chat with friends or family

Division of Microsoft
Revenue of $740 million, as of 2009
Link: http://www.skype.com/en/

10.
Founded in April 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Specializes in making computers
Creator of the Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Revenue of $93.58 billion, as of 2015
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/