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Matías Botbol
Taringa! (stylized in all-caps as TARINGA!) was an Argentine-based social networking site geared toward Hispanophone users. Taringa! had a 27 million registered user base, according with Taringa's own metrics, who create and share thousands of daily posts on general interest topics such as life hacks, tutorials, recipes, reviews, and art. The platform had a presence in every country in the Spanish-speaking world – its main markets were Argentina, Spain, Colombia, and Chile. According to comScore statistics in 2013, it was the fourth most popular Latin American Social Network and the second one in traffic only after Facebook, since then the site's traffic has dramatically declined, dropping up to the 3898th place in the Alexa Ranking on December 30, 2020. History Taringa was created in 2004 by Fernando Sanz (Cypher). The initial version of the website could not sustain its rapid growth and was quickly sold to Alberto Nakayama and the Botbol brothers, Matías Botbol, Matías ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Botbol
Hernán Botbol (born October 18, 1981) is an Argentines, Argentine tech entrepreneur who has created several successful businesses. Currently, he's running Apply AI Corporation from Austin, Texas. Biography Botbol is a technology and internet enthusiast. He attended high school at Hapnot Collegiate High School in Manitoba, Canada and later pursued a degree in Economics and Business Administration at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His entrepreneurial endeavors date back to 2005, when he co-founded his first Company, Wiroos Internet Hosting, alongside his brother, Matías Botbol, and associate, Alberto Nakayama. This company provides web hosting services. Botbol received international recognition when Taringa.net was acquired in 2006, and then relaunched in 2007. It became one of the most successful Spanish language, Spanish-speaking web pages before the emergence of social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Taringa! is currently o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |