Category: Economy
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Twitter
Twitter is a microblogging social network managed by Twitter Inc. It allows a user to send free micro messages, called tweets or tweets, over the internet, by instant messaging or SMS. These messages are limited to 280 characters. Creation March 21, 2006 Founders Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams Key figures Jack…
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Dogecoin
Dogecoin (code: DOGE, symbol: Ð and D) is a cryptocurrency with an image of the Shiba Inu dog from the meme “Doge” as its logo. Introduced as a joke on December 6, 2013, Dogecoin quickly developed its own online community and reached a capitalization of $60 million in January 2014. Date of creation December 6,…
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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos or Jeff Bezos (born in Albuquerque, on January 12, 1964) is an American businessman known for founding, and being the president and CEO of Amazon, an important and famous e-commerce company in the United States. Full name Jeffrey Preston Bezos Known as Found and direct the Amazon.com Birth date January 12, 1964…
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first and world’s strongest cryptocurrency on the market based on a decentralized accounting system. Payments are cryptographically legitimized (digital signature) and processed via a computer network of equal computers (peer-to-peer). Unlike in the classic banking system, a transaction with Bitcoin corresponds to the settlement between the parties involved. Proof of ownership of…
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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III, known as Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and billionaire. He is known for being the co-founder of Microsoft in 1975 and its main shareholder until 2014. Function Microsoft General Manager April 1975 – January 2000 Biography Birth date October 28,…
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WhatsApp
WhatsApp (or WhatsApp Messenger) is a cross-platform mobile application that provides an end-to-end encrypted instant messaging system both via mobile phone networks and the Internet. The application was created in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, two former employees of the American company Yahoo! with the aim of replacing SMS. It is used by…
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YouTube
YouTube is an American site dedicated to sharing videos. It offers a variety of movie clips, TV shows, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogs and YouTube Gaming. The people who create content for this platform are generally known as YouTubers. It was created by three former employees of PayPal…
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria) is an American businessman, investor and tycoon. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; Angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of about $252…
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Google
Google LLC is an American technology services company founded in Silicon Valley, California, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, creators of the Google search engine. It has been a subsidiary of Alphabet since August 2015. The company has mainly made itself known through the monopolistic situation of its search engine, historically competing with AltaVista and…