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Let’s Know About : Google Electricity

January 22nd, 2010 admin No comments

Google is everywhere , on your laptop , on your phone, and soon even on your outlet ( seriously it’s not a joke )
The Internet giant Google has asked the U.S. authorities for a permission to become a electricity merchant. This activity would reduce its costs, its carbon emanations but also perhaps to develop synergies.


According to a document filed with the U.S. Commission of Energy Regulation (FERC), the group, through its subsidiary Energy Google has applied to take a merchant status and “related rates” and an authorization to buy and sell on the energy markets.
Google says that if it had made its application to FERC is to have more flexibility in its supply of energy for its own activities, including its data centers.
A merchant Status will indeed increase, its ability to amortize its energy costs and to incorporate renewable energy in its energy portfolio.
Google’s efforts to locate its facilities near a major sources of energy such as hydroelectric dams, show the importance of their energy needs.
Google also was committed to reducing its CO2 emissions to achieve carbon neutrality and has reached it .
The group also announced that it will invest in green energy. It has launched also an electronic gauge, PowerMeter, a free software intended for individuals and companies to control their energy consumption.

Google has already been the year of the solar energy installations are most important for a company in the United States within the walls of its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google Affirms 9212 as well as solar panels producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity, the facility is able to supply 1000 homes in California, reduce our CO2 emissions and makes sense financially, because the investment is amortized in seven years and a half.
Google already has the most important solar energy installations for a company in the United States within the walls of its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google Affirms also that with 9212 solar panels producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity, the facility is able to supply 1000 homes in California, reduce our CO2 emissions and makes sense financially, because the investment will be amortized in seven and half years.

Let’s Know About : Facebook Is Making Money

September 21st, 2009 admin No comments


Who doesn’t have a facebook account ? everyone has one :D
The world that best fits is, addiction , yes !! we are all addicted to Facebook , and we check our profiles at least one time per day .
But Facebook as a company ? is it making real profit as we may all think ? the answer used to be no, but things are changing :) .

The global social networking website has reached 300 million subscribed members and is now able to make benefices.

The very famous American social network took a major step by announcing that it has finally become profitable. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and cofounder of Facebook Affirmed that few months ago, facebook expected to achieve a positive cash position in the beginning of 2010. But unlike it was predicted, This has been achieved in the last quarter of 2009. Facebook can’t deny that The economic dimension is very important and crucial, because it allows Facebook i to be an independent entity in the long term.

Five years after its creation , Facebook has solved the economic equation that concerns all of the community websites. Many of them do meet a success, but only few of them can make money out of it . The financial stability will allow Facebook to face the future calmly, showing a preference for the IPO to be redeemed by an Internet giant like Google.

To the eye of observers, Facebook has been able to achieve this result by controlling its costs carefully. Up to 70% compared to 2008, its turnover is very small compared to its size. Facebook, which has just reached the milestone of 300 million active members, would generate only $ 500 million in 2009, according to Mark Andreessen, a member of the Executive’s social network.

For comparison, let’s take its rival MySpace (News Corp).which Had generated nearly one billion dollars in sales with only 115 million unique visitors per month last year. Similarly, Yahoo! generates $ 7 billion per year with 570 million unique visitors per month worldwide.

A very rapid growth.

The audience of Facebook is growing rapidly. With over than 50 million new accounts created in the two previous months. The threshold of 200 million members was passed in April, the 150 million four months earlier.
But things weren’t always that easy for Facebook, indeed , it has taken three years to reach the first 50 million members (October 2007), then doubled that number in August 2008. This dynamic could affect its profitability if revenues are not progressing faster than expenses.
I also personally believe that , the economic model which Facebook tries to set, even if it required few years to start generating funds , once it started making money, it won’t stop , who knows maybe in few years , Facebook will make as much money as Google makes or maybe more.


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