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This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Googol. Page semi-protected Google Inc. Google Logo Type Public Traded as NASDAQ: GOOG NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component Industry Internet Computer software Telecoms equipment Founded Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)[1][2] Founder(s) Larry Page, Sergey Brin Headquarters Googleplex, California, United States Area served Worldwide Key people Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman) Larry Page (Co-founder & CEO) Sergey Brin (Co-founder) Products See list of Google products Revenue Increase US$ 50.18 billion (2012)[3] Operating income Increase US$ 12.76 billion (2012)[3] Profit Increase US$ 10.74 billion (2012)[3] Total assets Increase US$ 93.80 billion (2012)[3] Total equity Increase US$ 71.72 billion (2012)[3] Employees 44,777 (Q2 2013)[4] Subsidiaries AdMob, DoubleClick, Motorola Mobility, On2 Technologies, Picnik, YouTube, Zagat, Waze Website google.com References: [5] Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies.[6] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.[7][8] Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[9] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[10][11] In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), an office suite (Google Drive), and social networking (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Google Chrome OS[12] for a specialized type of netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its high-end Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.[13] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.[14] The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world[15] and to process over one billion search requests[16] and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data each day.[17][18][19][20] In December 2012 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger.[21] Its market dominance has led to criticism over issues including copyright, censorship, and privacy.[22][23]

For other uses, see Twitter (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Twitter, Inc. Twitter bird logo 2012.svg Twitter homepage.png Current homepage of Twitter. Type Private Foundation date March 21, 2006[1] Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States[2] Area served Worldwide Founder(s) Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone Key people Jack Dorsey (Chairman) Dick Costolo (CEO) Industry Internet Revenue Increase US$140 million (2010 est.)[3] Employees 900+ (2012)[4] Subsidiaries Vine Website twitter.com Written in JavaScript,[5] Ruby,[5] Scala,[5] Java[5][6] Alexa rank negative increase 11 (August 2013)[7] Type of site Social network service, microblogging Registration Required to post, follow, or be followed Users 200 million (active February 2013)[8] Available in Multilingual Launched July 15, 2006[9] Current status Active Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.[10][11][12] Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."[7][13] Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.[14] Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.

Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.[5] A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio now typically used by mobile device cameras. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012.[6][7] Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play.[8] Support was originally available for only the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; in April 2012, support was added for Android camera phones running 2.2 Froyo. Originally a purely photo-sharing service, Instagram incorporated video sharing in June 2013, allowing its users to record and share videos lasting for up to 15 seconds.[9] This venture has been seen by some as Facebook's attempt at competing with Twitter's Vine video-sharing application. [10][11][12][13

Paper Toss is set in an office. The player's objective is to flick a piece of paper into a bin. To make the game more challenging, there is a fan running in the space, thus the wind direction and speed are displayed, as they need to be accounted for when flicking the piece of paper. Players are scored on how many times they manage to toss the paper into the bin before missing. There are online leaderboards and 8 different levelstoss world tour announced][6] a dimly lit basement level, and a restroom level, which are all in the office. There is also a pub level and a street level, both of which occur away from the office.

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.[1] A 'documentary film' was originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[2]

This article is about the website and its owner Facebook, Inc. For the photographic directory, see face book. Page semi-protected Facebook, Inc. Facebook.svg Facebookhomedecember2012.png Screenshot of Facebook main page on August 1 2013 Type Public Traded as NASDAQ: FB Foundation date Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. (February 4, 2004) Headquarters Menlo Park, California, U.S. Area served United States (2004–05) Worldwide (2005–present) Founder(s) Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes Key people Mark Zuckerberg (Chairman and CEO) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) Industry Internet Revenue Increase $5.1 billion (2012)[1] Operating income Decrease US$ 538 million (2012)[2] Net income Increase US$ 53 million (2012)[2] Total assets Increase US$ 15.10 billion (2012)[2] Total equity Increase US$ 11.75 billion (2012)[2] Employees 5,299 (June,2013)[3] Subsidiaries Instagram Website facebook.com Written in C++ and PHP[4] Alexa rank positive decrease 1 (August 2013)[5] Type of site Social networking service Registration Required Users 1.15 billion (active March 2013)[6] Available in Multilingual (70) Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active Facebook History Timeline Statistics Acquisitions Criticism Features Facebook is an online social networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other.[7] It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.[9] Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,[10] of which 8.7% are fake.[11] According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.[12] Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data a year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours. [13] In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer[14] added $1 million of his own money to the pot. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.[15] Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[16] Facebook eventually filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[2] Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012.[17] Based on its 2012 income of USD 5.1 Billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time, being placed at position of 462 on the list published in May 2013.[18]