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1. In 2013, more than 1/5 of American adults used Pinterest, up 15% from a year earlier. This makes Pinterest slightly more popular than Twitter or Instagram, though all three are still far behind Facebook.
2. Pinterest was valued at nearly $4 billion as of October 2013
In 2007, Forbes magazine ranked Google as the best place in the U.S. to work.
3. In 2010, Apple annual sales were $65.23 billion. If Apple were a country, it would rank as the world’s 68th biggest country.
4. Apple Corp, the Beatles’ record company, has repeatedly taken Apple Computer to court over trademark infringement. The first time was in 1978, shortly after Apple Computer was founded in 1976. The parties settled in 1981, on the contingency that Apple Computer would never enter the music industry. However, Apple Corp again took the computer giant to court in 1989 when Apple Computer introduced computers capable of music playback, and then again in 2003 after the iPod and iTunes hit the market in 2001 and 2002, respectively. The companies ultimately reached an agreement concerning the use of the word “Apple” in 2007.
5. During the 2011-2012 Egyptian crisis, Google launched a special service that allows people without the Internet to send Twitter messages by dialling a phone number and leaving a voicemail. The voicemail is automatically translated into messages on Twitter.
6. Apple's iPhone consumes US$0.25 worth of electricity per year if it's fully charged once a day.
7. In June 2000, Google became the world’s largest search engine.
8. A survey from PriceGrabber stated that 21% of Pinterest users bought something they saw on a pinboard.
9. A 14-minute trailer for an obscure film mocking a Muslim prophet sparked anti-U.S. protests in Egypt and Libya in Sept 2012. While YouTube did not remove the clip, it blocked access to it in Egypt and Libya. This highlights the difficulties of balancing free speech with legal and ethical concerns in an age when social media can impact world events.
10. Fellow graduate student Sean Anderson suggested Google creators Page and Brin name their site “googolplex.” Page suggested they shorten it to “googol,” which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Anderson mistyped “googol” as “google,” which was an available name. The name reflects Google’s mission to organize the massive amounts of information on the Web.
11. What makes a video go viral on YouTube is not exactly known. Humour, genuineness of emotion, and the human experience seem most appealing. One researcher notes that “going viral is not a strategy; it’s an outcome.'
12. At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL(America Online).
13. The average YouTube visitor accesses the site 14 times per month.
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14. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
15. In 2007, it was estimated that YouTube used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000.
16. As of 2013, the most viewed video on YouTube is “Gangnam Style,” which was added in 2012. It was the first video to get over 1 billion hits. It overtook the previous record-holder, Justin Bieber’s music video “Baby,” on November 24, 2012.
17. In October 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stocks, just18 months after YouTube’s creation. Karim received $66 million in Google stock, Chen received $310 million, and Hurley received $334 million.
18. Although Pinterest CEO Silbermann thought Google was a special place because its founders “dreamed big,” he was frustrated there because Google wouldn’t let him build things. Finally, he quit—a decision he felt good about, but “a week later, the entire economy collapsed.'
19. iPhones account for 39% of Apple’s overall revenue
20. Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
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21. Approximately 50% of Pinterest users have children.
22. The “Google Guys,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin, first met at Stanford University in 1995 when Sergey (21) was assigned to show Larry (22) around the school. Google was first incorporated as a private company on September 4, 1998, and held its initial public offering on August 19, 2004.
23. On November 22, 1985, Apple signed an agreement to let Bill Gates use Mac GUI (graphical user interface) technology in Windows 1.0 if Microsoft continued to produce products for the Mac. However, when Windows 2 showed features of Mac technology, Apple sued. The lawsuit was decided in Microsoft's favour on August 24, 1993.
24. YouTube has become such a cultural phenomenon that a college course was devoted to it. In 2007, Pitzer College in California offered a course called “Learning from YouTube.” The teacher wanted students to think about YouTube’s place in society.
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25. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim was born in May 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany, and later moved to West Germany. The Karims moved to the U.S. in 1992 to Maplewood, a suburb of St. Paul, MN.
26. On September 30, 2013, a San Francisco judge awarded Pinterest $7.2 million in damages and legal fees against a Chinese cyber squatter Qian Jin over 100 domain names, including pinterests.com, pimterest.com, and pinterost.com. Pinterest.com was also awarded the domain names.
27. Pinterest has been called “Digital Crack” for women.
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28. In 2005, East Asia’s richest man, Li Hu Shing, invested $120 million dollars in Facebook.
29. The program that detects duplicate content on YouTube to prevent copyright infringement (Automated Content ID) scans over 100 years’ worth of video - each day.
30. In 2007, British Prime leader Tony Blair became the first world leader with a YouTube channel.
31. In 2011, 30% of videos on YouTube made up 99% of views on the site.
32. Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.
33. When Facebook changed its privacy setting in December 2009, Zuckerberg’s previously private photos—in which he was seen shirtless, holding a teddy bear, and looking “plastered”—became public.
34. Pinterest was initially launched in 2009 as a closed-beta, invitation-only site. By January 2012, Pinterest had become a household name and boasted more than 10 million unique monthly visitors.
35. In May 2008, L.A. police arrested Cyrus Yazdani for vandalism. He had published many of his graffiti adventures on YouTube with a rap soundtrack. His YouTube publications helped police find and arrest him.
36. Apple sold 340,000 iPhones per day in 2012.
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37. Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their idea after they hired him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled for an undisclosed sum. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook.
38. While Microsoft spent $8.7 billion on research development in 2009, Apple spent only $1.7 billion. Additionally, Apple spent $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses in 2009, while Microsoft spent $17 billion. Despite spending more money, however, Microsoft had smaller sales and vastly slower growth.
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39. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “the Facebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.'
40. On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.
41. In 2012, Pinterest users spent 1,255,225,000 minutes on the site.
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42. Several companies have sued YouTube because they believe YouTube hasn’t done enough to prevent copyright infringement. In 2008, Viacom - which owns MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon - won a court ruling that required YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. In 2010, Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuits was rejected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. While the case was reinstated in 2012, in 2013, YouTube defeated Viacom once again under the “safe harbour” provisions of the DMCA.
43. In 2009, Apple sold 40 million iPhones. That’s 4,583 sold per hour, 76 per minute, or 1.27 per second. The iPhone is sold in 89 countries.
44. Privacy International in 2007 ranked Google as not only “Hostile to Privacy” but as also having the worst privacy policies among popular net firms. It criticized Google for the mass amounts of data it gathers about users and their activities.
45. Eleven per cent of Facebook’s 100 million U.S. users are African-American, 9% are Latino, and 6% are Asian, which is a fairly accurate reflection of the U.S. general population.
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