Top 5 Publicly Traded Internet Companies By Revenue

The top five biggest publicly traded internet companies by revenue are:

• Amazon
• Google
• eBay
• Facebook
• Tencent

Amazon.com, Inc.

 

• is an American International e-commerce company with HQ in Seattle,Washington 

• Jeff Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994 and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995

• started as an online bookstore but soon diversified

• is the largest online retailer

• has separate retail websites for -

1. USA
2. UK
3. France
4. Canada
5. Germany
6. Italy
7. Spain
8. Australia
9. Brazil
10. Japan
11. China
12. India and
13. Mexico

Google

• Google is an American MNC  specializing in Internet-related services and products which include search,cloud computing,software andonline advertising technologies

• Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D students at Stanford University as a privately held company on September 4, 1998

• Google's initial IPO took place on August 19, 2004 which offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt  agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024

• In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountainview,California, nicknamed the Googleplex

• Google has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world (as of 2007) and to process over one billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day (as of 2009)

• By January 2014, Google's market capitalization had grown to $397 billion

eBay

• was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995

•  is an AmericanMNC Internet Consumer-to-Consumer Corporation, headquartered in San Jose,California 

• manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide

• As of January 2014, eBay's market capitalization stood at roughly $69 billion

Facebook

• is an online social networking service

• allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website

• founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harward University students Eduardo Saverin,Andrew McCollum,DustinMoskovitz and Chris Hughes

• its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities

• filed for an IPO offering on February 1, 2012 and began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012

• joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time on the list published in May 2013, being placed at position 462

• considered the 5th most successful startup company of all time, by market capitalization, revenue, and growth

• In 2012, Facebook was valued at $104 billion, and by January 2014 its market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion

Tencent Holdings Limited

• is a Chinese Investment Holding Company  whose Subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone Value added services  and operate online advertising services in China 

• was founded by Ma Huateng  and Zhang Zhidong in November 1998 as Tencent Inc.Incorporated in Cayman Islands

• headquarters are located at the lost city of Alantis in Nanshan District, Shenzhen 

• In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to US$101 billion, nine years after going public

• is the 4th largest internet company in the world after -Google,Amazon and eBay