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Facebook
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is a company created by Mark Zuckerberg founded by Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg consisting of a socialnetworking website. Originally a site for students at Harvard University, but is now open to anyone who has an email account. Users can participate in one or more social networks, inrelation to their academic status, workplace or geographic region.
Has received much attention in the blogosphere and in the media to become a platform on which third parties can developapplications and do business from the social network.
In mid-2007 launched versions in French, German and Spanish translated by users as unpaid, 6 primarily to boost its expansionoutside the United States, since its users are concentrated in the United States, Canada and the UK. Facebook has over 900 million members, and translations into 70 idiomas.7 8 In October2012, Facebook reached 1,000 million users, of which there are over 600 million mobile users. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States are the countries with the highestnumber of usuarios.
Its main infrastructure consists of a network of over 50,000 servers using distributions of GNU / Linux using LAMP.10
On April 9, 2012, it was announced thatFacebook acquired by Instagram billion.

Facebook |
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Tipo | Privada |
Género | Red social |
Fundador(es) | Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Chris Hughes
Dustin Moskovitz |Sede |  Silicon Valley, San Francisco,1 |
Ámbito | Global |
Industria | Tecnologías de la información |
Ingresos | 3.771 Millones USD2 |
Beneficio de explotación |  1.756millones de USD(2011)3 |
Beneficio neto |  668 millones de USD(2011)4 |
Presidente y fundador | Mark Zuckerberg |
Empleados | sobre 1.000 en 20105 |
Sitio web | www.facebook.com |