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Founded in 2008 in San Francisco by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia – valued in March 2015 at $20 billion: allows you to list, find and book temporary lodgings Click to show or hide the answer
Launched in 1995 by Yahoo!: probably the most popular web search engine, until the arrival of Google; discontinued in 2011 Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos – who overtook Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in 2018 to become the world's richest person (with a net wealth of $112 billion) Click to show or hide the answer
Owner of the internet domain name aa.com Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Yahoo!'s translation website – named after a creature in Douglas Adams's Hitch–Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; replaced in 2012 by Microsoft's Bing Translator Click to show or hide the answer
The BBC's audio streaming service (for podcasts and radio programmes): replaced the iPlayer Radio service for UK users in October 2018 Click to show or hide the answer
Owner of the internet domain name diy.com Click to show or hide the answer
Described by its founder, Whitney Wolfe Herde, as a "feminist dating app": in hetero–sexual matches, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 1995 by the French–born Iranian–American Pierre Omidyar Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 2004 by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg; 64 million users by 2008 Click to show or hide the answer
Social networking site: founded in 1999 by Steve and Julia Pankhurst of Barnet, Hertfordshire; bought by ITV for £120 million in 2005, and sold for £25 million in 2009 (after losing critical market share to other sites such as Facebook) Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, by Sergey Brin and Larry Page Click to show or hide the answer
Combination of two words, found in a dictionary, that return only one hit on Google. Term coined in 2001, popularised in the UK by comedian Dave Gorman from 2003 Click to show or hide the answer
Social media platform, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 1998 by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox Click to show or hide the answer
Non–profit social network, founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko and named after a prehistoric mammal: gained 30,000 users in April 2022 following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter Click to show or hide the answer
Massachusetts–based employment website, founded in 1994 by Jeff Taylor Click to show or hide the answer
Music streaming service, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker; closed in 2001 by a Californian court; bought by Californian software company Roxio, which relaunched it as an online music store; bought in 2011 by streaming rival Rhapsody, which is now known by this name Click to show or hide the answer
Streaming and video–on–demand company: founded in Scotts Valley, California in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph; website launched April 1998 Click to show or hide the answer
Film review website, founded in 1998 by Senh Duong: awards films a "freshness" rating Click to show or hide the answer
Best–selling mobile phone 'app' that recognises songs: its name is also the magic word used by Billy Batson to transform into Captain America Click to show or hide the answer
Started as a Twitter feed in 2009 by Julian Halpern; spawned a TV sitcom starring William Shatner, and a New York Times No. 1 bestselling book Click to show or hide the answer
Virtual assistant on Apple devices (including iPhones, iPads, Mac PCs, Apple Watch, Apple TV and smart speakers) Click to show or hide the answer
Mobile app created by three students at Stanford University, launched in 2010: for sending pictures that don't get stored on the recipient's device; originally (before launch) named Picaboo Click to show or hide the answer
Music, podcast, and video streaming service, founded in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, in 2006; officially launched on 7 October 2008 Click to show or hide the answer
Video–sharing app launched in China in 2017 (but only available outside China): by 2019 it was the seventh most downloaded mobile app of the 2010sClick for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Social media platform founded in October 2021 by Donald Trump (and named without irony); launched in February 2022 Click to show or hide the answer
Online news and social networking service, launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams; had over 100 million users by 2012, and over 300 million by 2016 Click to show or hide the answer
Mobile app created in 2009, by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick in San Francisco, for booking taxis Click to show or hide the answer
London–based, proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of the Earth with a resolution of about 3 metres (9.8 ft) – founded in 2013; founders include quizzer and Only Connect question–setter Jack Waley–Cohen Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 2006 by the Sunshine Press; Julian Assange is editor–in–chief and one of its directors Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in January 1994, by Jerry Yang and David Filo, as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"; renamed three months later, after a race of primitive humanoid creatures in Gulliver's Travels Click to show or hide the answer
Founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees; first posting was Me at the Zoo (19 seconds), featuring and uploaded by Jawed Karim, one of the founders; bought by Google in November 2006 (i.e. 21 months later) for $1.65 billion Click to show or hide the answer

www.gosh.nhs.uk Click to show or hide the answer
www.thedogsdoodahs.com sells Click to show or hide the answer

Minimum age at which you can use Facebook Click to show or hide the answer
Number of characters allowed in a tweet (increased from 140 in November 2017) Click to show or hide the answer

@ABCJustin is the Twitter name of Click to show or hide the answer

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