Michael Birch
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| Born | 1970[1] Hertfordshire, England, UK[1] |
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| Occupation | Computer programmer |
| Spouse | Xochi Birch |
Michael Birch (born 1970) is an English computer programmer and entrepreneur. Michael is married to Xochi Birch. Together with Michael's brother Paul they founded BirthdayAlarm.com and with Morgan Sowden they founded Ringo.com (which was sold to tickle.com in 2003). [2] He later founded the online social networking website Bebo[3] with the help of his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 with a major launch in July 2005. Today, Bebo has over 40 million registered users and has surpassed MySpace in many countries and is currently the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk[4].
Michael and Xochi Birch sold their majority stake in Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for USD 850 million.
Michael attended Imperial College London where he studied for a BSc in Physics (1988-1991).
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Chatting with the new king of chat rooms", The Times, 2006-10-01. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
- ^ Show and tell online | Technology | The Guardian
- ^ BBC NEWS | Technology | Teen craze over networking sites
- ^ How to make 80 million friends and influence people at http://observer.guardian.co.uk (accessed October 12, 2007)
