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Something like 20 million of their users are in India, a lot of those look like Orkut (Google) converts (edit: maybe notsomuch, add FB and look at last few years). http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=google%20plus%2Cork...
Negative correlation is also not causation.
Just a datapoint, but out of all the invitations I sent out when G+ first launched (100-150, I don't recall), 40 or 50 friends signed up. ~3 of them still use it at least once a week. From my observations, G+ still seems to consist primarily of three major user groups: 1. Tech celebrities 2. Technologists in general 3. Non-US users Facebook's feature set is killer, but at some point, I really would like to use some s…
Something like 20 million of their users are in India, a lot of those look like Orkut (Google) converts (edit: maybe notsomuch, add FB and look at last few years). http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=google%20plus%2Cork...
Which is to say, whatever you think about Google+ it is undeniable that they see it as a huge strategic priority.
The number of users doesn't mean much, everyone is invited now.
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Am I missing something? $302 million on $42 billion is <1% return.
For the quarter, which would be over 3% for the year. Which doesn't seem to bad if your not putting your money into overly risky things. Treasury bonds may be yielding less?
Hell, I'd like 3% on my money.
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Buy patents apparently :-) More seriously, I asked once about this when they were removing bottled water from the local mini-kitchens and dropping over 1 billion dollars a quarter into the bank. My question was "Gee, can't you spare a couple of million this quarter to keep the bottled water restocked?" and obviously the answer was that they could not. But from a corporate/strategic point of view having a lot of cash…
Removing bottled water is not a financial decision, but an environmental one. Every new employee is given a water bottle they can fill with water an infinite number of times. If they took away bottled water, I'm sure they replaced them with fruit juice, organic teas and all sorts of ambrosia.
Just a datapoint, but out of all the invitations I sent out when G+ first launched (100-150, I don't recall), 40 or 50 friends signed up. ~3 of them still use it at least once a week. From my observations, G+ still seems to consist primarily of three major user groups: 1. Tech celebrities 2. Technologists in general 3. Non-US users Facebook's feature set is killer, but at some point, I really would like to use some s…
You forgot professional photographers...