Computer Project On Companies
YOUTUBE
Inventor – YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
Launched Year – The website was launched in February 2005
Current Owner – Google is the current owner of YouTube.
Google takeover YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion in stock.
Currently YouTube has billions of users and millions of hours of content uploaded every day.
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SKYPE
Skype was developed by a team of Estonian developers led by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström.
The first version of Skype was released in 2003
In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion.
This is used to make free voice and video calls over the internet.
WhatsApp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, who were former employees of Yahoo.
launched the app in 2009.
In 2014, Facebook takeover  WhatsApp for $19 billion.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging app that allows users to send text messages, photos, and other media to each other over the internet.
Developed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
It was launched in October 2010.
In 2012, Facebook takeover  Instagram for $1 billion.
Instagram is a social media platform that allows users to take photos, apply filters to them, and share them on the app or on other social media platforms.
Original Founder – Larry Page and Sergey Brin .
“Google,” and they launched the company in 1998.
