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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 ­Other founders include and ­Headquartered in Cupertino California ­ is the CEO ­Arthur D. Levinson is the chairman ­The “1984” commercial ­Ridley Scott directed a commercial for the ­It was aired during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII ­They own Beats, , and a streaming App called Swell ­ In September 2014 , 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 and ­CEO is Larry Page ­Chairman is ­Headquartered in Mountain View, California at the ­Its advertising software is AdWords ­It owns Youtube and ­Agreed to censor stuff to meet requirements in China ­Censors search results at EU users' requests as part of "the " ­Chrome project ­Its works by PageRank (named for Larry Page) ­Owns Android and sold to Lenovo ­Uses DoubleClick ­Often creates April Fool’s Day jokes ­has also purchased , Dynamics, Nest

Microsoft ­Founded by and Paul Allen in Albuquerque ­Currently headquartered in Redmond, Washington ­CEO is Satya Nadella ­John W. Thompson is the Chairman ­ was former CEO ­Owns Bing, Xbox, MSN, Skype, Nokia, Bungie, and Hotmail ­This past july 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 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