11-04-2008, 11:58 AM
Quote:It costs a couple of hundred million dollars a year just to keep the lights on at Facebook. But the real problem is keeping up with growth, particularly storage needs. Add another $100 million or more per year for capital expenditures, and youve got a company thats doing exactly the opposite of printing money.
So How Bout Those Revenues?
eMarketer estimates $265 million in revenue for Facebook in 2008. Thats great, right? Well, not really. The company is still losing money - lots of it - at current revenues. And its not clear that revenue will grow as robustly as costs.
Most of Facebooks growth is outside of the U.S. A year ago, according to Comscore, Facebook had 31 million U.S. visitors, about 42% of the total. Today, U.S. visitors have grown to just 41 million...
full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/fac...g-problem/