{"id":42609,"date":"2012-02-02T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42609"},"modified":"2012-02-02T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:42:52","slug":"interesting-facebook-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/42609-interesting-facebook-facts.html","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facebook facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> filed on Wednesday to raise a targeted $5 billion in a hotly anticipated initial public offering, setting the stage for Silicon Valley&#8217;s biggest-ever IPO. Here are some key facts about the company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Founded: 2004<\/li>\n<li>Original name: thefacebook.com<\/li>\n<li>Headquarters: Menlo Park<\/li>\n<li>Employees: 3,200 as of December 31, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Revenue: $3.71 billion in 2011<\/li>\n<li>Founder and CEO: <a title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362086-Mark-Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Earliest investors: <a title=\"PayPal\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/222867-PayPal\">PayPal<\/a> co-founder <a title=\"Peter Thiel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400959-Peter-Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a> invested $500,000 in 2004, followed by Accel Partners, which invested $12.7 million in 2005<\/li>\n<li>Biggest stakeholder: Mark Zuckerberg, who holds a 56.9 pre-IPO voting stake Other top stakeholders: Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, DigitalSky Technologies; entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, Sean Parker<\/li>\n<li>Number of users: 845 million active monthly users worldwide, including 161 million active monthly users in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Average time spent on Facebook: Worldwide users spend about 6 hours a month; 7 hours in United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some key facts about social media giant Facebook as they file for an Initial Public Offering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":25911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8559,36,161,169,8557],"class_list":["post-42609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-accel-partners","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-paypal","tag-peter-thiel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42611,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions\/42611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}