Facebook.com vs Google.com

Facebook, Inc. is an American based techonology company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is currently a top social media platform for sharing stories and memories which currently obtained over 2.38 billion users accross 180+ countries wordwide.

Facebook.com is a popular social networking and communication service launched on 4th February, 2004. It was established by Mark Zuckerberg with his school flat mates and few members of Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The site's participation was at first restricted by the professors of Harvard student, but it was later extended to different schools in the Ivy League, the Boston region, and gradually to most colleges in the United States/Canada corporations. By September 2006 it was issued to everybody with a valid email address including an age requirement of 13 years and above.

Acquisitions

• In August 2009, Facebook gained social media ongoing news aggregator FriendFeed, a startup made by Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit. 
• In February 2010, Facebook purchased Octazen Solutions, a Malaysian contact-fetching startup. 
• On April 2, 2010, Facebook reported securing of a photo sharing assistance called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount. In June 2010, an online commercial center for exchanging private Facebook stock mirrored a valuation of $11.5 billion.
• On April 12, 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram, an image sharing application around $1 billion in real money and stock. 
• On March 8, 2013, Facebook declared that they acquired the group from Storylane, but not the product itself.
• On October 13, 2013, Facebook gained Onavo, an Israeli investigation organization, for roughly $120 million. 
• On February 19, 2014, Facebook declared its acquisition of WhatsApp, a smartphone instant messaging application for $19 billion out of a mix of stock and money. The purchase is the highest ever paid for a funding sponsored startup. 
• On March 25, 2014, Facebook reported they had obtained computer generated reality startup Oculus VR for $2 billion in real money and stock.
• In April 2020, Facebook, Inc. purchased a 9.9% stake in Jio, which was the most highest foreign direct interest in the Indian innovation sector.
• Access to Facebook is free of charge, and the company generates a large portion of its revenue from ads on the website.                

Google​, Inc. is an American multinational technology company that practices in Internet-related services, which include search engine,  online advertising, cloud computing, programming etc. It was considered as one of the Big Five technology organizations in the US IT industries alongside Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. 

Google was established in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were PHD holders at Stanford University in California. Together the two of them own about 14% of its offers and control 56% of the investor casting a ballot power through supervoting stock. They later fused Google as a California private company on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002 . A first sale of stock (IPO) occurred on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its base camp in Mountain View, California which was nicknamed as the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google reported designs to rearrange its different advantages as an aggregate called Alphabet Inc. Google turned into Alphabet's driving auxiliary and will keep on being the umbrella organization for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was later named CEO of Google, supplanting Larry Page, who turned into the CEO of Alphabet. 

The organization develop quickly after the fuse has set off a chain of items, acquisitions and associations past Google's center internet searcher (Google Search). It offers administrations intended for work and usefulness (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), booking and using time productively (Google Calendar), distributed storage (Google Drive), texting and video visit (Duo, Hangouts, Chat, and Meet), language interpretation (Google Translate), planning and route (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View), digital recording facilitating (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), blog distributing (Blogger), note-taking (Google Keep,Google Jamboard), photograph arranging and altering (Google Photos). The organization drives the advancement of the Android mobile working framework, the Google Chromeweb program, and Chrome OS, a lightweight working framework dependent on the Chrome program. Google has moved progressively into equipment; from 2010 to 2015, it joined forces with significant gadgets makers in the creation of itsNexus devices, and it delivered different equipment items in October 2016, including the Google Pixel line of smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh remote switch, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has additionally explored different avenues regarding turning into an Internet transporter (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station) 

Google.com is the most visited site around the world. A few other Google-possessed sites additionally are on the list of most famous sites, including YouTube and Blogger.

 Subsidiary Industry

• Internet Services
• Cloud computing
• Computer software
• Computer hardware
• Artificial intelligence
• Advertising
• Enterprise services

Google Awards

Over the years google has won a lot of awards ranging from different categories. And the company continues to enhance its resources, workforce and relevance to achieve greatness.  Some of their awards received are

• Best Leadership Teams  
• Best CEOs for Diversity  
• Best Product & Design Team  
• Best Engineering Team  
• Best Places to Work in Austin  
• Best Places to Work in Washington DC  
• Best Places to Work in Los Angeles  
• Best Places to Work in Los Angeles  
• Best Places to Work in the Bay Area  
• Best Places to Work in New York  
• Best Global Culture  
• Best Company Outlook