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In 1913, American Messenger merged with McCabe's Motorcycle Delivery Service to become Merchants' Delivery Service, and they bought their first car, a 1913 Model T Ford.
About Messenger Messenger LLC, headquartered in Auburn, Indiana, was founded in 1913 by Frank Messenger who started in the religious calendar business and has since become the leading provider of stationery, funeral service items and personalization services.
By 1918 he reached the one-million mark for the first time, followed by the sale of over two-and-a-half million calendars the next year.
In 1919, the company made its first expansion beyond Seattle to Oakland, California, where the name United Parcel Service debuted.
The company also reintroduced air service (there was a badly-timed two-year venture started in 1929) offering two-day delivery to major East and West Coast cities.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation was established in 1948 by Jim Casey, one of the founders of United Parcel Service, and his siblings, George, Harry, and Marguerite, who named the philanthropy in honor of their mother.
In 1953, UPS began common carrier operations, serving commercial and residential shippers in some cities including Chicago - the first city outside of California in which UPS offered this.
The original site of American Messenger Service is marked by Waterfall Park (downtown Seattle at 2nd Avenue and Main Street), constructed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 1977 to honor UPS employees worldwide.
Fleetfoot was founded in 1980 as an independent locally owned company to fill a void in the downtown delivery market.
By 1984, demand for service had grown and Fleetfoot added a few cars to its fleet and increased the courier staff to over 20 people.
In 1985, UPS Next Day Air service became the first air delivery network to reach every address in the 48-contiguous states, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
In 1988, UPS won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its own aircraft, launching UPS Airlines.
After a decade of seeing its reach grow throughout the Americas and Europe, in 1989 UPS extended service to the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.
With the release in 1993 of the Mosaic Web browser, those systems were joined with an easy-to-use graphical interface.
By 1994, the company had switched to using bicycles, moved twice to larger offices and had over 80 employees.
The first companies to create social networks based on Web technology were Classmates.com and SixDegrees.com. It was launched in 1997 with most of the features that would come to characterize such sites: members could create profiles for themselves, maintain lists of friends, and contact one another through the site’s private messaging system.
The firm was founded in 1998 to provide sophisticated financial advisory and transaction services.
SixDegrees.com claimed to have attracted more than three million users by 2000, but it failed to translate those numbers into revenue and collapsed with countless other dot-coms when the “bubble” burst that year for shares of e-commerce companies.
He bought Fleetfoot back in May 2001 and is busy now rebuilding relationships with the local business community.
In 2001, UPS entered the retail business acquiring Mail Boxes Etc., Inc., the world's largest franchisor of retail shipping, postal and business service centers.
By 2001, it was essentially bankrupt and had agreed to sell off its assets.
Others were quick to see the potential for such a site, and Friendster was launched in 2002 with the initial goal of competing with popular subscription-fee-based dating services such as Match.com.
It began at Harvard University in 2003 as Facemash, an online service for students to judge the attractiveness of their fellow students.
Whereas Friendster, as part of its mission as a dating site, initially appealed to an older crowd, MySpace actively sought a younger demographic from its inception in 2003.
By June 2004 more than 250,000 students from 34 schools had signed up, and that same year major corporations such as the credit card company MasterCard started paying for exposure on the site.
In September 2004 TheFacebook added the Wall to a member’s online profile.
Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University.
In 2005 high-school students and students at universities outside the United States were allowed to join the service.
In 2006 Facebook opened its membership beyond students to anyone over the age of 13.
In 2006 it released its application programming interface (API) so that programmers could write software that Facebook members could use directly through the service.
After an outcry from users, Facebook swiftly implemented privacy controls in which users could control what content appeared in News Feed. It first became a serious issue for the company in 2006, when it introduced News Feed, which consisted of every change that a user’s friends had made to their pages.
In 2007 Facebook launched a short-lived service called Beacon that let members’ friends see what products they had purchased from participating companies.
The spectre of online predators did little to diminish MySpace’s membership (which reached 70 million active monthly users in 2007), but it did open the door for other social networking sites to seize some of its momentum.
The Company was founded in 2007 by Steve Calloway and Mike Wilson, who were later joined by their sons Aaron Calloway and Michael Wilson, Jr. to take active roles in managing the business.
In 2008 Facebook surpassed Myspace as the most-visited social media website.
Facebook has become a powerful tool for political movements, beginning with the United States presidential election of 2008, when more than 1,000 Facebook groups were formed in support of either Democratic candidate Barack Obama or Republican candidate John McCain.
By 2009 developers generated about $500 million in revenue for themselves through Facebook.
Hosni Mubarak during the uprising of 2011 often organized themselves by forming groups on Facebook.
By 2011 payments from one such company, Zynga Inc., an online game developer, accounted for 12 percent of the company’s revenues.
After expanding its portfolio throughout the decade, including acquiring tech-driven freight brokerage Coyote Logistics in 2015, UPS began offering Saturday ground delivery and Saturday pickup services.
Carol B. Tomé began her tenure as the 12th CEO of UPS on June 1, 2020, becoming the first female CEO in the company’s 113-year history.
In October 2021 Facebook announced that it was changing the name of its parent company to Meta Platforms.
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