Companies Which Call The Shots In the Tech World


# eBay: eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace found in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is headquartered in California. The Company manages the online auction on its shopping website where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. eBay’s notable success as a bidding site has taken the company’s business to a multibillion dollar one with operations in over thirty 30 countries across the world.

# Twitter:Twitter is an online micro blogging and social networking site, which allows its users to send and read short 140-character text messages called ‘Tweets’. The site maintains its uniqueness by keeping its messages short compared to the other social networking sites which encourages the twitter users to tweet more. Twitter is one of the most visited web pages with users tweeting about 340 million times a day and has close to half a million registered users on it. It was found in 2006 by a group of five people and is based in San Francisco.

# Facebook: Facebook is the most popular social networking site which has gained worldwide recognition from over a billion people. It is the most preferred platform for companies to connect with their customers and it makes close to $1.5 million dollars a year as advertising revenues. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and headquartered in California, Facebook enables its users a modern way of socializing and communicating with anyone in the world with internet access.

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