Friday, 6 February 2015

Moyce and Moore - Intel

Main founders:  Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce

Company information

  • Current CEO: Brain Krzanich
  • Company name: Intel
  • Year founded: July 18,1968

Headquarters : Santa Clara, CA, United States of America.
  • Company Net Worth: Intel is worth $54 billion.The company restructured in 2005.
  • Individual Founder Net worth : As of January 2015, Gordon Moore is worth $7.2 billion;  Robert Noyce is worth $3.7 billion. 

Experience of the main founders: Moore was working as the director of research and development. In 1968  Noyce and Moore used the name Intel from a company call Interco.
The company started in Livermore, California on North Mines Road.
Why Intel was created:  The product problem that Intel was solving was the fitting of processors into computers.

Some of Intel products name are Bluetooth chip sets, flash memory, motherboard chip sets, network interface cards, mobile phones.


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Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean-Luc Vaillant - LinkedIn

Main Founders:
Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean-Luc Vaillant

Experience: 

Reid Hoffman: Partner of Greylock, online marketing, mobile, social gaming.
Konstantin Guericke: Partner of Earlybird, bachelor and master’s science degree in Engineering.
Jean-Luc Vaillant: Technical Architecture, Engineering management positions in Fujitsu Software Cooperation. 
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Company:
LinkedIn: A business oriented social website. This helps professionals to communicate with each other to explain about their plans in the business life.
Year Founded:
LinkedIn was launched and found in the 5th May 2003.
Where did LinkedIn start: 
Santa Monica, California, USA
Current CEO:
Jeff Wien
Headquarters:
Mountain View, California, USA
How did LinkedIn got started?
Reid Hoffman started LinkedIn in late 2002. He was the one who found it as well as some members of PayPal. In six years, the company became recognized throughout America.
What problem is LinkedIn solving?
Trying to get business people to exchange ideas.
Help to establish business contacts for meetings.
Individual net worth:
Reid Hoffman: $4.2 million
Konstantin Guericke:$10 million
Jean-Luc Vaillant: $1.5 billion 
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook

Influential people in IT: Mark Zuckerberg

This is a blog about Mark Zuckerberg and the website he created. There will be bits of information about himself and the company below.

Company name- Facebook

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Date founded: Facebook was founded on February 4th 2004 Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA, United States of America Current CEO of the company: Mark Zuckerberg How the company started: Facebook is a website that was launched on February 4th 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University. What experience founders had: Mark Zuckerburg had dropped out of Harvard, he taught himself how to program, him and his friend Adam D’Angelo also caught the eye of Microsoft. Where the company started: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States What problem Facebook solved:Facebook made socialising with people a lot easier. It was free to use and it was a solution on how you could stay connected to your friends without having to get phone bills.

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