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Facebook Founded by Mark Zuckerburg, who is also the CEO Sheryl Sandberg is the COO Headquartered in Menlo Park, California Held its IPO in February of 2012 Membership was originally limited to Harvard students Some stuff they acquired Instagram WhatsApp Oculus VR Private Core WaveGroup Sound Some accounts were hacked in Bangalore The Winklevoss Twins created ConnectU Manipulated news feed to observe affects on posts (more negative newsfeed created more negative user posts) They claimed Zuckerburg stole their idea, so they sued him for 65 million Facebook now owns ConnectU Apple The most famous founder is of course Steve Jobs Other founders include Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne Headquartered in Cupertino California Tim Cook is the CEO Arthur D. Levinson is the chairman The “1984” commercial Ridley Scott directed a commercial for the Macintosh It was aired during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII They own Beats, Siri, and a music streaming App called Swell In September 2014 icloud, a virtual storage device, was hacked, releasing many nude pictures of celebrities New Infinity Loop headquarters Twitter Created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams Headquartered in San Francisco Jack Dorsey is the chairman Dick Costolo is the CEO They own Vine 140 character posts The UK’s GCHQ has services called BIRDSONG and BIRDSTRIKE to utilize twitter Twitterbots are automated twitter accounts Google Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin CEO is Larry Page Chairman is Eric Schmidt Headquartered in Mountain View, California at the Googleplex Its advertising software is AdWords It owns Youtube and Blogger Agreed to censor stuff to meet requirements in China Censors search results at EU users' requests as part of "the right to be forgotten" Chrome project Its search engine works by PageRank (named for Larry Page) Owns Android and Motorola sold to Lenovo Uses DoubleClick Often creates April Fool’s Day jokes has also purchased Waze, Boston Dynamics, Nest Microsoft Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque Currently headquartered in Redmond, Washington CEO is Satya Nadella John W. Thompson is the Chairman Steve Ballmer was former CEO Owns Bing, Xbox, MSN, Skype, Nokia, Bungie, and Hotmail This past july Microsoft announced its largest layoff ever, at 18,000 employees Boeing Founded by William Boeing in Seattle Currently headquartered in Chicago W. James McNerney is the CEO and Chairman Produces a bunch of 7 something 7s Phantom Works is a division of Boeing’s defense program Chevron John S. Watson is the CEO and Chairman Headquartered in San Ramon, California Merged with Texaco They have had some gas explosions, such as one in Pennsylvania After the explosion they gave residents coupons to a local pizza place Exxon Mobil Rex W. Tillerson is the CEO and Chairman Headquartered in Irving, Texas Direct descendant of Standard Oil Caused the Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1989 Intel Founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce Brian Krzanich is the CEO Andy Bryant is the Chairman Headquartered in Santa Clara, California Tick Tock development cycle Goldman Sachs Founded by Goldman and Sachs Lloyd C. Blankfein is the CEO and Chairman Gary D. Cohn is the President and COO Headquartered in New York AT&T Randall Stephenson is the CEO and Chairman Headquartered in Dallas, Texas General Motors Mary Barra is CEO replaced DAn Ackerson Recalled 800,000 cars due to ignition switch issue in April 2014 Investigated by the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Charles Wilson said: “What’s good for GM is good for America Their subsidiary Chevrolet sponsors the English Football Team Manchester United Ikea Peter Agnefjall is CEO and president sells easy to assemble furniture products name is an acronym of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, and Agunnaryd in 2013, it was exposed that the meatballs sold by the company locations in Europe contained horsemeat .