First person to upload a YouTube video, and one of the company's three founders, Jawed Karim previously worked for which internet company?
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YouTube YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
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Jawed Karim Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German-American (of Bangladeshi descent) Internet entrepreneur, who worked at PayPal, and co-founded YouTube. He is the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named 'Me at the zoo' and as of 30th September 2017 has reached over 42 million views. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-internet fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
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HighQ (software) HighQ is a privately owned software as a service (SaaS) company providing cloud-based secure file sharing, team collaboration and social networking software for enterprise customers. It has customers in the legal, banking and corporate sectors as well as government and life sciences. HighQ was founded in London in 2001 by university friends Ajay Patel and Veenay Shah. The company has offices in the UK (London), Australia (Sydney), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), USA (New York) and an R&D operation in India (Ahmedabad).
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HOOQ HOOQ (pronounced as "hook") is a video on demand streaming service. It is a joint-venture of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Singtel. HOOQ is Asia's first premium video-on-demand service to launch across the South East Asia and India.
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Christopher Knight (filmmaker) Robert Christopher Knight is a blogger and filmmaker based in North Carolina who gained some notoriety for a video he uploaded to YouTube and a subsequent copyright infringement clash with Viacom.
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TheWineKone Tony Huynh, known by his username thewinekone on YouTube, is a Canadian comedian and video blogger. Since the creation of his account in 2005, he has become one of the most viewed users on YouTube, as well as one of YouTube's first online personalities. In his video "'The Wine Kone' Revealed" he says that his user name "TheWineKone" is actually an anagram for "Toe Knee Hwin," which is a phonetic spelling for his actual name. Huynh is known for his long rant-like video blogs which often stray from the primary topic and contain somewhat perverse humour to varying degrees. Although he often acts hyperactive and strange in his videos, it was stated in "About Her/Their Videos" that he is simply acting for the purpose of entertainment.
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Taras Kulakov Taras Kulakov (Russian: Тара́с Кулако́в ; ] ), better known as CrazyRussianHacker, is a Russian YouTuber best known for his "life hacks", scientific experiments (or in other terms: science experiment demonstration, science demonstrations), testing videos and his motto "Safety is number one priority." His YouTube channel, "CrazyRussianHacker", created on May 18, 2012, has over 2.7 billion views and 10 million subscribers (as of August 2017) and is one of the medium's top 200 channels. He has an estimated net worth of around $5 million. He owns two huskies, Hugo and Luke, and is an avid beekeeper. Recently (Mid-2017), Taras has acquired a white bird, which he has named 'Gamma.' He also has a second YouTube channel "Taras Kul" with over 2.8 million subscribers.
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Max Telecom Max Telecom is a mobile telecommunications company and internet service provider (ISP) in Bulgaria. It was launched in October 2007 by Krasimir Stoychev, the founder of Bulgaria's first GSM operator MobilTel (in 1994), as Max Telecom. Max Telecom has license for operating the telecommunication services through a network of "point-to-multipoint" with national coverage, the service is also known as WiMAX. This type of network allows the building of high-speed and reliable connection. Also it gives opportunity to offer a wide range of fixed and mobile services, including Internet access, virtual private networks (VPN), voice services, video services and IPTV. The company is the first to launch commercial LTE network in Bulgaria. In May the company rebranded with new logo and began promoting itself simply as "Max".
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Darian Shirazi Darian Shirazi (Persian: داریان شیرازی‎ ‎ , born December 23, 1986) is an engineer, entrepreneur, angel investor, and founder of Radius. At age 19, he became the first intern hired by Facebook.
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MTV Channel MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd is a Sri Lankan media company which owns three national television channels - Shakthi TV, Sirasa TV and TV 1. It also owns the Hit TV, News First and Ethalaya.com. The company was established in 1992 as joint venture between Capital Maharaja and Singapore Telecommunications. Singapore Telecommunications sold its share in the company to Gregson Holdings Ltd in 1998. Later International Media Management invested in the company.
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Somali Faces Somali Faces is an online project that shares everyday stories of ordinary Somali people from around the world. It was founded by Mohammed Ibrahim Shire, a storyteller, author and history enthusiast and Donia Jamal Adam, a storyteller, human rights advocate and campaigner. The blog had over 70,000 followers on Facebook and around 21,600 followers on Instagram as of June 2017.
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MulticoreWare MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, offering products and services related to (i) HEVC video compression, (ii) machine learning (specifically, Convolutional Neural Networks), (iii) compilers for Heterogeneous Computing, and (iv) software performance optimization. MulticoreWare's customers include AMD, ARM, Microsoft, Google, Telestream and BBright Technologies. MulticoreWare was founded in 2009 and today has offices in 3 countries – USA, China and India.
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Faisal Farooqui Faisal I. Farooqui (born 23 April) is an entrepreneur and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MouthShut.com, Farooqui is an advocate of freedom of expression on the Internet- he challenged India's restrictive IT Rules in the Supreme Court which resulted in the Honorable Supreme Court striking down India's draconian Section 66A and reading down of many other sections of the Information Technology Act of India (MouthShut.com & Faisal Farooqui v/s Union of India)
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Marques Brownlee Marques Brownlee, also known by his YouTube username, MKBHD, is an American vlogger, best known for his technology-focussed YouTube channel. The channel, whose name is a concatenation of MKB (Brownlee's initials) and HD (for High Definition), has over 5 million subscribers and over 619 million total video views. In August 2013, Vic Gundotra, former Senior Vice President, Social for Google, called Brownlee "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now". During one of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary debates that was cosponsored by YouTube, Brownlee asked the candidates, by video, whether tech companies and the government can find a middle ground over encryption while considering rights to privacy and national security.
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Melody Oliveria Melody Oliveria, also known by her handle bowiechick, is a video blog contributor, most popularly to YouTube. She was listed as a notable contributor to YouTube in 2006.
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Omar Hussein Omar Hussein (Arabic: عمر حسين‎ ‎ ; born May 21, 1986) is a comedian who found his stage on YouTube. He was the CEO of UTURN entertainment and then he left to continue his studies. His show Al-Tayer, based on local humor, has drawn hundreds of thousands of hits. He's part of a growing trend where comedians and citizen journalists are using social media as a platform to address the two-thirds of the Saudi population under 30. These online celebrities are pushing the barriers of society through their popular, but sometimes controversial talk shows.
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Keek Keek was a free online social networking service that allowed its users to upload video status updates, which were called "keeks". Users could post keeks to the Keek website using a webcam or via the Keek mobile apps for iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, or Android. Users could also reply back with text or video comments, known as "keekbacks", and share content to other major social media networks. There was also an embed option so users could embed their keeks into a blog or website.
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ARY Digital ARY Digital (Urdu: ‎ ), a subsidiary of the ARY Group, is a popular Pakistani television network available in Pakistan, the Middle East, North America and Europe. The ARY Group of companies is a Dubai-based holding company founded by a Pakistani businessman, Abdul Razzak Yaqoob (ARY). The network caters to the needs of South Asians, particularly the Pakistani diaspora. The channel is considered to be a pioneer in Pakistani media and broadcasting industry, and has an expanding network of channels, each with an independent focus.
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Dipdive Dipdive was a social networking website created by will.i.am. It was best known for the original source site of the "Yes We Can" music video. The site allowed users to upload images, videos and audio files, post blog entries and create playlists. Dipdive was home to variety of creative content and social causes.
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Syed B. Ali Syed Basharat Ali, usually referred to as "Syed Ali", is the founding chairman, president, and CEO of Cavium Networks, a San Jose, California-based company specializing in MIPS-based network and security processors. Cavium Networks develops and manufactures processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and business applications.
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Qsoft Qsoft is a media company, specializing in producing some of the biggest online and TV content in the Middle East’s. Originally specialized in digital media management, Qsoft holds its place as the biggest YouTube partner in the MENA region. The company’s mission is to enable talents with compelling content to be professionally produced and distributed through the latest online and digital entertainment channels.
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Idesktop.tv iDesktop.tv is a website whose main purpose is the searching, watching, organizing and downloading and creating Custom Players for YouTube videos. The website's interface attempts to emulate that of a normal desktop application.