People who changed the world? Wow!

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Jun Shiang & Xin Yee

Jack Ma

      Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, has built his success based on his belief and dream that Internet will become something big in the future. Why we said that he is one of the person who changed the world? Well, It's simply because JackMa introduced Internet to China and there is when he starts to change the world, he forseee the future and allowed everyone that are passion towards businesses have their own opportunity to thrive in the e-commerce. He created a platform for the entreprenuer to chase their dreams and also created lots of job opportunity to the global. He created an ecosystem for the e-business to sustain and success through his company. After all, who don't use Taobao to shop their wants nowadays?? Didn't you? :P

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                    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg​

       Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, born on 14^th May 1984 in New York city.His Father,Edward was a dentist.Mother,Karen was a psychiatrist.Mark grew up with another 3 siblings, Randi,Arielle and Donna.When he was in high school he learned “Atari Basic Programming” from his father and David Newman as his tutor.While he was a student at Harvard University,he created programs called CourseMatch and FacemashWhere, the students  select their courses and decide on study groups,while Facemash was built for fun.In the next semester year 2004.Mark and his friends created another new website call The Facebook.In year 2005 Accel Partners.A company dealing with growth equity in a new name called Facebook. 2 years later, Mark launched  Facebook Platform to allow software developers to use Facebook to build other applications and it has been famous until these days.

     So, Mark has created a new type of communication for the world. In previous generation, the medium of communication is using the traditional ways which is sent a message to another person by using phone call, message and email. But he done a different thing, he create a software which can let people know who already seen the message, so that communication in the world get improvement.

     Facebook has impact different aspect including politics, media, marketing, privacy, our sense of identity and our definition of friendship. As many business has expand their business into online by using Facebook as a tools. For example, many company has use Facebook to do advertising for their product. As Facebook have 600 millions users and can be reached worldwide. Other than that, people also use Facebook as a media to spread news to world.

          

References

1. Kurt Wagner. 2014. ‘8 Ways Facebook Changed the World’ [Available at: http://mashable.com/2014/02/04/facebook-changed-the-world/#7zy2gPquZkqw] [Accessed on: 29 October 2016]

2. Jack Ma, author CE wong, Kanyin Publications

3. Forbes. 2016. ‘China Rich List' [Available at: http://www.forbes.com/profile/jack-ma/ ] [Accessed on: 30 October 2016]