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Overview of Facebook, Inc.

Facebook is a social media and technology company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students. It operates the popular social networking website Facebook as well as other products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Messenger, Watch and Portal. Headquartered in California, Facebook is a publicly traded company worth over $70 billion in revenue and is considered one of the most valuable technology companies in the world.

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Overview of Facebook, Inc.

Facebook is a social media and technology company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students. It operates the popular social networking website Facebook as well as other products like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Messenger, Watch and Portal. Headquartered in California, Facebook is a publicly traded company worth over $70 billion in revenue and is considered one of the most valuable technology companies in the world.

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This article is about the technology company. For their social media website, see Facebook.

Facebook, Inc.

Type Public

NASDAQ: FB (Class A)
Traded as
NASDAQ-100 component
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component

ISIN US30303M1027 

Industry Social media


Advertising

Founded February 4, 2004; 16 years


ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Founders Mark Zuckerberg


Eduardo Saverin
Andrew McCollum
Dustin Moskovitz
Chris Hughes

Headquarters Menlo Park, California


, 
U.S.

Area served Worldwide (except blocked countries)

Key people Mark Zuckerberg


(Chairman, CEO, Controlling Shareholder)
Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
David Wehner (CFO)
Mike Schroepfer (CTO)

Products Facebook
Instagram
Messenger
WhatsApp
Watch
Portal
Oculus
Calibra

 US$ 70.697 billion (2019)
Revenue

Operating income  US$ 23.986 billion (2019)

Net income  US$ 18.485 billion (2019)

 US$ 133.376 billion (2019)


Total assets
 US$ 101.054 billion (2019)
Total equity

Number of 44,942 (December 31, 2019)


employees

Subsidiaries Reliance Jio (9.9%)[1]

Website [Link]

Footnotes / references
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Facebook, Inc. is an American social media and technology company based in Menlo Park,


California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and
roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, originally as
[Link]—today's Facebook, a popular global social networking website. Facebook is one
of the world's most valuable companies. It is considered one of the Big Five technology companies
along with Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google.
Facebook offers other products and services. It acquired Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, and
has a 9.9% stake in Jio. Facebook independently developed social networking sites Facebook
Messenger, Facebook Watch, and Facebook Portal.

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