8 Successful Companies That Weren't The Same When They Started

By siliconindia | Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 12:57 Hrs

6. Instagram

Nowadays trends also include a social networking site called Instagram which helps people to take images or videos apply some digital filters to them and share them on the other social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and more. One of the distinctive and main features of Instagram is that it can enclose the photos into square shape which is one of the features available in cameras. However, Instagram was launched in 2010, it grew rapidly in 2012 with around 100 million users who were active users.

7. YouTube

Have you missed any of your shows on television or do you want to download some music or videos? For all this the best option is YouTube. This website will provide you with watching, sharing and uploading videos. The technologies used to display videos are Adobe Flash videos and HTML5. This video sharing website was created by three PayPal employees in 2005 and Google tookoverit in 2006. It was earlier a video-dating site and now as it is owned by Google with around $1.6 billion in stock.

8. PANDORA

Pandora is an internet radio or can be called as an automated music recommendation service. Their service includes playing different artists songs based on user’s artist selection and then the user will provide a positive or negative feedbacks. Pandora was earlier known as Savage Best Technologies where their idea was to bring together different styles of music and around 400 specifications where created for each single song according to listener’s preferences. This company was renamed as Pandora Radio in 2005 and currently there are about 35 million listeners and most of the smartphone have this as an app.