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Facebook users surged to buy servers trying to take advantage $ 100,000,000
In Electronic Infomation Category: R | on November 1, 2010
According to "Business Week" published an article that the social networking site Facebook $ 100,000,000 loan to help it keep pace with explosive growth.
Menlo Park, California, a venture lending firm TriplePoint is helping Facebook financing in order to buy more servers and MAX738ACWE datasheet and other infrastructure expenses. Facebook does not disclose the number of servers it uses. However, the research firm Data Center Knowledge, this social networking Web site estimated the number of servers used to 1 million units. Market research firm Frank Gillett, vice president of Forrester Research, said the cash will help Facebook buy 50,000 servers for this company to provide space for the development of the next two years.
Facebook site list shows the site has 70 million users. However, ComScores data show that Facebook, more than 1 billion users.
January of this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the companys revenue in 2008 from the previous forecast of 300 million U.S. dollars to 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, 150 million U.S. dollars in 2007 to double revenue. The private company said capital spending this year to 2 billion U.S. dollars, the number of employees increased to 1,000 from about 450 people or more.
"Business Week" Facebook is expected to total funds available to 3.5 million.