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Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook
The earlier stage of Facebook, Facemash has basically matched two girls pictures. Named Hot or Not -
Received first investment
Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000 -
Facebook launched
Mark Zuckerberg and his friend wrote Facebook and launched it as a Harvard Social Network. -
First million users
Facebook achieves its one millionth registered user -
Facebook for High school kids
Facebook launches a high school version of the website -
Bought facebook.com domain
Facebook acquires Facebook.com domain for $200,000 -
Yahoo wants to buy facebook
Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion. -
Microsoft added
Microsoft announces that it will purchase a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. However, Microsoft also gained ad exclusivity in this deal, so the $15 billion valuation figure is disputed -
The like button
Facebook activates the Facebook like button -
The Social Network movie
The Social Network, a film about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened. -
Messenger
Facebook Messenger is launched for Android and IOS. October 19, 2011, the update makes the app available to Blackberry os -
facebook & instagram
Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion -
Billion users
Facebook reaches 1 billion active users -
Facebook bought whats app
Facebook announces that it is acquiring the Sequoia Capital-backed multi-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $16 billion USD ($4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares) plus an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing. -
Face directed
Facebook's face recognition algorithm (DeepFace) reaches near-human accuracy in identifying faces -
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and data mining
More than 50 million user data was compromised, that was used for machine learning, which had a great influence on last US election. also responsible for fake news.
