Which internet company was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001?
"Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker , is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school. Later, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance from Auburn University and the University of Alabama respectively. While in graduate school, Wales taught at two universities; however, he departed before completing a PhD to take a job in finance and later worked as the Research Director"
"2001. Wales first stated, in October 2001, that ""Larry had the idea to use Wiki software"", though he later stated in December 2005 that Jeremy Rosenfeld, a Bomis employee, introduced him to the concept. Sanger thought a wiki would be a good platform to use, and proposed on the Nupedia mailing list that a wiki based upon UseModWiki (then v. 0.90) be set up as a ""feeder"" project for Nupedia. Under the subject ""Let's make a wiki"", he wrote: Wales set one up and put it online on Wednesday 10 January 2001. There was considerable resistance on the part of"
"which had been acquired by MFS shortly before the merger with WorldCom. In February 1998, WorldCom purchased—by a complex transaction—online pioneer company CompuServe from its parent company H&R Block. WorldCom then retained the CompuServe Network Services Division, sold its online service to America Online, and received AOL's network division, ANS. The acquisition of Digex (DIGX) during June 2001 was also complex; WorldCom acquired Digex's corporate parent, Intermedia Communications, and then sold all of Intermedia's non-Digex assets to Allegiance Telecom. On November 4, 1997, WorldCom and MCI Communications announced their US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, making it the largest"
"2001, Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a ""feeder"" project for Nupedia. The domains wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org were registered on January 12, 2001 and January 13, 2001 respectively, and Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. Wikipedia's policy of ""neutral point-of-view"" was codified in its first months. Otherwise, there were relatively few rules initially and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia. Originally, Bomis intended to make Wikipedia a business for profit. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings,"
"discussions, optimistic about Wikipedia's future success. After Sanger's departure, Wikipedia was managed by Wales and a burgeoning online community; although he thought advertising a possibility, the Wikipedia community was opposed to business development and Internet marketing was difficult at the end of 2002. Wikipedia remained a for-profit venture (under the auspices of Bomis) through the end of 2002. By then it had moved from a .com domain name to .org, and Wales said that the site would not accept advertising. Material from Nupedia was folded into Wikipedia, and by 2003 the former was discontinued. By 2003 Wikipedia had grown to"
"""He used to work for me [...] I don't agree with calling him a co-founder, but he likes the title""; nonetheless, before January 2004, Wales did not dispute Sanger's status as co-founder and, indeed, identified himself as ""co-founder"" as late as August 2002. In Sanger's introductory message to the Nupedia mailing list, he said that ""Jimmy Wales contacted me and asked me to apply as editor-in-chief of Nupedia. Apparently, Bomis, Inc. (which owns Nupedia)... who could manage this sort of long-term project, he thought I would be perfect for the job. This is indeed my dream job"". Sanger said ""He"
"from 2000-2005. In 2005, he left Lehman to start eTwine Inc and launched an online dating site IamFreeTonight.com. Lerner served as president, chairman, and CEO of Snap Interactive from 2005 – 2016 before merging with AVM Software (owners of Paltalk). Under his leadership, SNAP's revenue grew 4,412 percent from 2007 to 2011. In 2007, Lerner launched the AreYouInterested (AYI) application on the Facebook Platform. The website surpassed 10 million users within a year and became the Top Grossing App on iTunes App Store. In 2007, eTwine Holdings, Inc., changed its name to Snap Interactive. In 2010, AreYouInterested surpassed was over"
"Internet Group, he oversaw all of Disney’s Internet businesses, including Disney.com, ABCNews.com and ESPN.com. Winebaum left Disney in 1999 to co-found eCompanies, an Internet incubator and venture fund, with EarthLink founder Sky Dayton. It is a privately held company, and while it reportedly struggled for a time when the dot-com bubble burst, it ultimately launched and funded several successful companies. The businesses that came out of eCompanies include LowerMyBills.com, which was purchased by Experian in 2005, JAMDAT Mobile, which went public and was then purchased by Electronic Arts, Boingo Wireless, which went public in 2011, USBX which was purchased by"
"In May 2001, the company was dissolved. USWeb USWeb was an Internet marketing company founded in 1995 by former Novell executives Joe Firmage, Toby Corey, and Sheldon Laube during the dot com bubble. In 1999, the company merged with CKS, then later in 2001 became MarchFirst, before eventually going bankrupt. USWeb's business model was to acquire small, independent web consulting firms with a franchise model and then merge them and their customer bases into its conglomerate, allowing these smaller franchises to use the USWeb brand for their services in exchange for public stock as payment, with USWeb progressively growing its"
"GroupSpaces GroupSpaces (styled groupspaces) is a London-based online company that provides technology to help real-world clubs, societies, associations and other groups manage their membership and activities, and promote themselves online. Founded by Oxford University students David Langer and Andy Young, the company was launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 and has since expanded into the United States and over 30 other countries. As of November 2010, its software is used to host over 1 million memberships. GroupSpaces generates revenue via a combination of premium accounts, targeted advertising and transaction commission from payments made through the site. GroupSpaces has also"
"by Bomis to provide content for Nupedia, and was a for-profit venture (a Bomis subsidiary) through the end of 2002. As the costs of Wikipedia rose with its popularity, Bomis' revenues declined as result of the dot-com crash. Since Wikipedia was a drain on Bomis' resources, Wales and philosophy graduate student Larry Sanger decided to fund the project as a charity; Sanger was laid off from Bomis in 2002. Nupedia content was merged into Wikipedia, and it ceased in 2003. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation began in 2003 with a Board of Trustees composed of Bomis' three founders (Wales, Davis and"
"services company specializing in text-based data analysis. David Langer and Andy Young founded GroupSpaces, an Oxford-based company that provides free web-based tools for groups to operate efficiently. GroupSpaces secured six-figure investment from angel investors in January 2008 and has attracted over 70 blue-chip advertisers. The site, which has half a million memberships registered across sports clubs, charities, university societies, national associations and other groups, has secured $1.3m from Index Ventures's seed fund and leading Silicon Valley angels in 2010. Thomas Whitfield founded ""Oxford BioLabs"", an Oxford-based company focusing on the research and development of novel health & beauty therapies. Their"
"more than seven years working together in the internet space founding software development company Cromwell Media (sold to InterX for £850m in 2000) and IT industry news site Silicon.com (sold to NASDAQ-listed CNET Networks, part of CBS in 2001). The trio founded Omnifone to enable the next generation of digital content services to be delivered globally. The company spent four years developing its unlimited music service platform before announcing MusicStation in February 2007. Omnifone has won a number of awards for its unlimited music services including: Omnifone was headquartered in Brook Green, London, with offices in Asia Pacific and the"
"place in the 2007 UK Graduate of the Year competition. Langer previously worked at JP Morgan, McKinsey & Company and Lehman Brothers. Andy Young serves as cofounder and CTO of GroupSpaces. He is the creator of Selective Tweets, the most popular third-party app to link Twitter and Facebook, with over 500,000 users and 1.5m status updates per month. On April 13, 2011, GroupSpaces was named the winner of the Social Networking and Collaboration category of the Startup 100 awards. GroupSpaces GroupSpaces (styled groupspaces) is a London-based online company that provides technology to help real-world clubs, societies, associations and other groups"
"USWeb USWeb was an Internet marketing company founded in 1995 by former Novell executives Joe Firmage, Toby Corey, and Sheldon Laube during the dot com bubble. In 1999, the company merged with CKS, then later in 2001 became MarchFirst, before eventually going bankrupt. USWeb's business model was to acquire small, independent web consulting firms with a franchise model and then merge them and their customer bases into its conglomerate, allowing these smaller franchises to use the USWeb brand for their services in exchange for public stock as payment, with USWeb progressively growing its customer base. Critics, including competitors and analysts,"
"report based on 18 billion postings over twelve months on the most loved tech companies. Salesforce.com, Cisco Systems and Netflix were among the top three. Also in 2011, NetBase found that the news of Osama Bin Laden eclipsed the royal wedding and the Japan earthquake in online activity. NetBase Solutions NetBase Solutions, Inc. is a Santa Clara, CA based developer of natural language processing technology used to analyze social media and other web content. It was founded by two engineers from Ariba (now SAP Ariba) in 2004 as Accelovation, before changing name to NetBase in 2008. It has raised a"
"a round that was led primarily by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Other investors included Jawed Karim (co-founder, YouTube) and Pradeep Sindhu (co-founder, Juniper Networks). Institutional investors included Lerer Media Ventures, Tugboat Ventures and Contour Venture Partners. The individual investor syndicate was arranged by New York City-based Felix Investments. On January 24, 2011, Qwiki launched its public alpha. In March 2011, Qwiki raised an additional $1 million from Groupon and Lightbank co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, bringing the total raised to date to $10.5 million. In April 2011 Qwiki released an iPad App version of its service. The application has"
"material about Nike on Twitter. The ASA found that the content of certain tweets from two footballers had been ""agreed with the help of a member of the Nike marketing team."" The tweets were not clearly identified as Nike marketing communications, and were therefore in breach of the ASA's code. In December 2005, it was noticed that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales had edited his own Wikipedia entry. According to public logs, he has edited his biography 19 times, as of 9 September 2013, seven times altering information about whether Larry Sanger was a co-founder of Wikipedia. It was also revealed"
"and changed the way users engage with the Internet. 1999: The Netscape has been bought by AOL. 2000: The dot-com bubble bursted. 2001: A federal judge shouted down Napster. 2003. The SQL Slammer worm has spread worldwide in just 10 minutes. 2004: Facebook went online and the era of social networking began. 2005: YouTube.com has been launched. 2006: AOL changed its business model and offered the most services for free and relyied on advertising in order to generate revenue. 2009: 40th anniversary of the Internet. 2010: 400 million active users have been reached in Facebook. 2011: Twitter and Facebook played"
"those practices. The company has since adopted privacy reforms and changed its invitation processes. Owned by Ifwe, Inc., it is an Inc. 500 company ranking #476 on the 2010 ""Inc."" list of fastest-growing independent U.S. private companies and #80 on ""Forbes"" 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies. Tagged Inc. was co-founded in mid-2004 by entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith, who wanted to build a ""Teen Yahoo! or the next MTV"". The pair had formerly co-founded internet incubator Jumpstart Technologies, which was later fined $900,000 for alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, then the largest-ever penalty for spam. In"
"Gavin Wheeldon Gavin Wheeldon (born 12 May 1976) is a British businessman and entrepreneur from the Manchester area who is best known for his appearances on the reality television shows Dragon's Den and Secret millionaire; and a controversial contract his former company, Applied Language Solutions (ALS), signed with the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice. After selling it to Capita, he founded Purple WiFi, a company to provide free WiFi platform to the businesses for customer relationship management. Wheeldon founded ALS in 2003. In 2007, Wheeldon appeared on the British version of ""Dragons' Den"" offering 4% of the company in return"
"reported £61m, with Michael owning a 75% share in the company. In 2008, Michael founded UK-based cloud storage and cloud backup company Livedrive, which offered customers unlimited online storage. Nicholas Cowell was also an investor in the company. In 2009, only three months after the company launched, Michael turned down an offer of £100m for the business, and in late 2009 he launched the company in the US. In 2014 Michael sold Livedrive to J2 Global. In 2014 Andrew co-founded Bark.com with Kai Feller. The company enables customers to easily contact local service professionals, avoiding the need to make multiple"
"[Wales] had had the idea for Nupedia since at least last fall"". As of March 2007: Wales emphasized this employer–employee relationship and his ultimate authority, terming himself Wikipedia's sole founder; and Sanger emphasized their statuses as co-founders, referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages (2004, 2006), press releases (2002–2004), and media coverage from the time of his involvement routinely terming them in this manner. The goals which led to GNUpedia were published at least as early as 18 December 2000, and these exact goals were finalized on the 12th and 13th of January 2001, albeit with a copyright of 1999, from"
"investments include Google, Yahoo!, Skyscanner, PayPal, Webvan, YouTube, eToys, and Zappos. He currently sits on the boards of; 24/7 Customer, Earth Networks, Gamefly, HealthCentral, Green Dot Corporation, Klarna, Kayak.com, LinkedIn, Stripe and PopSugar. Moritz previously served on the boards of A123 Systems, Aricent Group, Atom Entertainment, CenterRun, eGroups, Flextronics, Google, ITA Software, Luxim, PayPal, Plaxo, Pure Digital, Saba Software, Yahoo!, and Zappos. Google was one of several co-investments with John Doerr of rival venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and the initial public offering of the company in 2004 made him one of Wales' richest men. His investment"
"One of those ISP's was Webpass, a company founded in 2003 in San Francisco as a wireless ISP focusing on buildings in big cities. Since then, Webpass had been increasing the speeds along with improved wireless technologies. By 2015, Webpass offered 1 Gbit/s connections to commercial customers, however, the residential customers were limited to speeds of up to 500 Mbit/s to share the 1 Gbit/s wireless link among many residents in the same building. The company utilized a combination of various licensed and unlicensed bands. In January 2016, a startup company Starry from Boston introduced Starry Point with the goal"
"the funding to pursue his greater passion, an online encyclopedia. While moderating an online discussion group devoted to the philosophy of Objectivism in the early 1990s, Wales had encountered Larry Sanger, a skeptic of the philosophy. The two had engaged in detailed debate on the subject on Wales's list and then on Sanger's, eventually meeting offline to continue the debate and becoming friends. Years later, after deciding to pursue his encyclopedia project and seeking a credentialed academic to lead it, Wales hired Sanger—who at that time was a doctoral student in philosophy at Ohio State University—to be its editor-in-chief, and"
"like LimeWire, Scour, Grokster, Madster, and eDonkey2000, were brought down or changed due to copyright issues. Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. Initially, Napster was envisioned as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service by Shawn Fanning. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. Its technology allowed people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants. Although the original service was shut down by court order, the Napster brand survived after the company's assets were liquidated and purchased by other companies through bankruptcy proceedings. Although there were already networks that facilitated the distribution of files"
"Co-founders were John F. McHale, Kent A. Savage (first chief executive), and Kenneth A. Kalinoski. Its business was to develop and sell Internet appliances. In May 1999, the company changed its name to Netpliance and in November released the I-Opener, a low-cost computer intended to be used for browsing the World Wide Web. In 2000 a Las Vegas engineer, Ken Segler, discovered a method to install an alternative operating system on the device. In 2001, the company was fined by the Federal Trade Commission for $100,000 for sales and billing practices. In 2002, the company discontinued operations of its internet"
"a free WiFi platform for businesses to surveil their customer's shopping patterns and habits, and communicate through their social IDs with these clients through targeted messaging. In May 2013, So Purple sold its Broadband division for £800,000 to Coms to focus on Wifi. Until 2015, Purple was funded by Wheeldon, before receiving its first outside funding of $5 million from Terry Leahy, Bill Currie, Iain MacDonald, Bob Willett and Juno Capital. Wheeldon currently lives in Uppermill, Oldham with his wife and two daughters. Gavin Wheeldon Gavin Wheeldon (born 12 May 1976) is a British businessman and entrepreneur from the Manchester"
"calls. In March 2015 Nick Hewer signed on as brand ambassador. Andrew Michael (entrepreneur) Andrew Michael (born 10 January 1980) is a British tech entrepreneur and founder of Fasthosts, Livedrive and Bark.com. Andrew Michael was born in Cyprus , and grew up in Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, United Kingdom. Aged 17, and as part of an A-level project, Michael started web hosting company, Fasthosts. In 2002, Fasthosts was listed in the ""Sunday Times"" as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, and by 2005 reported a turnover of £20m and a profit of £5m. In 2006 the"
"Metallica, among others. Lawsuits by various industry associations eventually shut down the service. Napster has been called the fastest-growing business of all time, is credited with revolutionizing the music industry, and is considered by some to be a precursor to iTunes. In November 2002, Parker launched Plaxo, an online address book and social networking service that integrated with Microsoft Outlook. Plaxo was an early social networking tool, which would later influence the growth of companies like LinkedIn, Zynga, and Facebook. Plaxo was one of the first products to build virality into its launch, and that earned it 20 million users."
"Ginkgotree, NewsBasis, Katchall, Nuzzel, Ouya, Permanent, Kiip, SOAK, SiiTV, Urban Airship, August, LoveBook, Graphic.ly, Fflick (sold to Google/YouTube in 2011), RoqBot, Plex, and Attachments.me. Jay Adelson Jay Adelson (born Jay Steven Adelson, September 7, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur. In 2014 Jay co-founded Center Electric with Andy Smith. In 2013 he founded Opsmatic, a technology company that improves productivity on operations teams. In 2015 Opsmatic was bought by New Relic. Adelson's Internet career includes Netcom, DEC's Palo Alto Internet Exchange, co-founder of Equinix, Revision3 and Digg, and CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc. In 2008, Adelson was named a member of"
"by adding 1,972 additional satellites that it has priority rights to. With the original capital raise of $500 million in 2015, plus the $1 billion investment of SoftBank in 2016, previous ""investors committed to an additional $200 million, bringing OneWeb’s total capital raised to $1.7 billion."" A merger arrangement with Intelsat that had been in negotiations during May 2017 collapsed in June and did not go forward. OneWeb OneWeb, formerly known as WorldVu Satellites, is a global communications company founded by Greg Wyler. The company is based in Arlington, Virginia and plans to launch the OneWeb satellite constellation, a network"