Facebook has become so popular that it is no longer only is a way to connect with your friends but also has become the platform to promote your business. People are addicted to Facebook and it is very hard to not use it for your social media needs.

Here is the list of 3 things that you don’t know about Facebook:

1. History about Domain Name:
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and his four college roommates.. The service was started as Facemash and was limited to only the students of Harvard in its early days.
The great social networking site was registered as “Thefacebook.com” in 2003 and after some time word “the” was removed from domain name and “Facebook.com” was purchased for about $200,000. Recently Facebook had purchased “fb.com” $8.5 million.

2. Popularity
Facebook has a huge network of about 800 million registered users which is 11 percent of World’s population. Facebook is based in America but the majority users are not from this country. Facebook is found to be popular among the users of other countries as well.
Popular Than Google in Many Countries:
Alexa is a web information company which provides rank to all the websites according to their popularity. Facebook is number 2 according to Alexa and comes after the Google.com. But it is more popular than Google in many countries. Countries such as Argentina, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Egypt, Colombia, Greece are the countries in which Google is behind Facebook.

3. Part of your Life:
Facebook is no longer only the way to connect with your friends but it has become the part of your life as well. Many people are not using it as just a Social Site but also as measurement of relationships. If one forgets to like one’s friend status or photo then it results in making them upset with each other. Many important decisions are made on Facebook and Political parties are using it as a resource to connect with their constituency.

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Hitachi and Western Digital will soon be one company. The European Union regulators have given a conditional green light to Western Digital’s plans to buy Hitachi’s storage division for $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the second largest hard drive manufacturer and Hitachi is the third largest manufacturer of hard drives in the world. Seems like all of the hard drive manufacturers are consolidating. Seagate is the largest manufacturer of hard drives and it just purchased Samsung’s hard drive division in April. Regulators only approved the Western Digital’s purchase after assurances that the company would sell off some its plant assets, which includes a manufacturing plant as well as they need to transfer some intellectual property to the new division being put on the auction block. The final purchase will take place after Western Digital sells the necessary assets.

So basically we went from 4 to 2 hard drive manufacturers in under a year. This can only mean that competition will diminish and prices will go up even further. The floods earlier this year already caused manufacturing issues and created shortages of hard drives. This will only compound the problem.

Bill Gates is the Richest man in the World Again.

As of last year Mr Gates sat at the number three in the chart dropping behind last year’s number one Warren Buffet and second place Mexican Carlos Slim Helu. All three men have lost money, but Bill seems to have lost the least. Bill Gates lost $18 billion of his fortune, but Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim Helu lost $25 billion of their fortunes.

Other interesting facts about the list include:

* The number of billionaires has declined 30%
* 373 people left the list with this breakdown, 355 lost enough money to make them not billionaires anymore and 18 died.
* 38 new billionaires are on the list and 3 people are on the list again after passing the billion-dollar mark again.
* The overall value of the list has almost dropped to half from $4.4 trillion to $2.4 trillion
* The average billionaire is worth is worth 3 billion dollars.
* 45% of the people on the list are Americans
* Russia was lost the most billionaires this year, they lost 55 billionaires
* Anil Ambani was the biggest loser, he lost 76% of his wealth, $32 billion

Via:Geek

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Circuit City is the largest retailer to close due to the expanding financial crisis. They announced it will shut down its remaining 567 U.S. stores at the cost of 34,000 more jobs after failing to sell the business.

The closure adds to the nation’s retail woes and spells more trouble for the nations malls, and is the latest casualty of the severe decline in consumer spending that has claimed KB Toys, Mervyns LLC and Linens ’N Things.

Circuit City had been avidly seeking a last minute buyer or a refinancing deal for its debt, but the troubled credit market proved impossible to work with. Negotiations with potential buysers for an acquisition extended past midnight Thursday before finally falling through.