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Samsung
Lee Byung-chul created Samsung and was South Korea's most successful businessmen. https://successstory.com/companies/samsung-group -
Apple
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell personal computers.
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Cisco
Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner are the founders of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services.
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Microsoft
Microsoft was created by Bill Gates in 1984. As of 2016, Microsoft has a revenue of 85.32 billion USD.
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Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. https://home.cern/topics/birth-web -
The Creation of Google
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
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Linkedin
The site has an Alexa Internet ranking as the 14th most popular website (October 2016)On June 13, 2016, Microsoft announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. The acquisition was completed on December 8, 2016. The transaction resulted in the payment of approximately $26.4 billion in cash merger consideration.
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Facebook
Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
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Youtube
In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.[4] YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos as well as do other things too.
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Spotify
Spotify is a music, podcast, and video streaming service launched in October 2008, developed by startup Spotify AB in Stockholm, Sweden. It provides digital rights management-protected content from record labels and media companies.
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Instagram
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Snapchat
Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO, and Bobby Murphy, co-founder and CTO created Snapchat. As of right now, they're turning down a $3 billion offer from Facebook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
