Facebook buys 100 million dollars to buy servers

According to foreign media reports, the US's second-largest social networking site Facebook Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gideon. In a recent interview, Gideon Yu said the company had recently gained 100 million of billions of dollars in venture capital and would use the money to buy more servers to meet the growing demand for Facebook's global users and apps. In the past 7 months, Facebook has gained 360 million dollars in investment. Gideon。 Said Facebook would use all of the new 100 million dollar investments to buy servers. To the delight of Facebook, the 100 million dollar is nominally a venture-capital firm Triplepoint lent leasing to Facebook,triplepoint will not get a corresponding stake in Facebook from the deal. Typically, a VC company will get a stake in a start-up company when it invests in it. Venture capital borrowed leasing way in the last century in the 90 's peaked. In recent years, because many companies need money to buy servers, telecommunications equipment and software products, venture capital borrowed leasing way again. Jim Labe, chief executive of Triplepoint, said that for venture capitalists, they did not want to see their investments being used to buy fixed assets, because buying fixed assets at the expense of equity was not a bargain. Rapid development since the creation of Facebook in 2004, it has been very fast, so it is urgent to buy hardware equipment. The number of Facebook users in the United States increased to 35 million in March this year, up 71% per cent year-on-year, and the number of users in the world grew three times times more than 109.2 million, according to data from the US Internet traffic monitoring agency comscore. Facebook did not disclose the number of servers it had previously owned. But knowledge, a market research firm, estimates that the number of servers currently running by Facebook should be around 10,000. Frank Gillett, vice president of Gillette, another market research firm, believes Facebook will be able to buy 50,000 more servers to accommodate the company's fast-growing business over the next two years through a new 100 million dollar investment. Gillette points out that Facebook's increased demand for servers is a sign of the growing technological rivalry between the big internet companies. In addition to Web pages, netizens are now hoping that major sites to launch high-quality images and video services. So users of Twitter, a former mobile-phone blogger, say that as the site grows fast, its access rate starts to slow. Capital Game Gillette estimated that the search giant Google needs to buy 500,000 servers a year, Microsoft also needs to add 200,000 servers every year, "to succeed in the Internet industry, the first means that the upfront need to spend a lot of money." On the other, the Internet is a capital game. "Facebook has not disclosed which vendor will buy the server. Facebook is now one of the biggest clients of Rackable Bae, a U.S. server maker, but mainstream server vendors such as IBM, HP, Sun and Dell may also be able to supply Facebook. Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook to get a 1.6% stake in the latter. From November 2007 to this March, China's Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka-shing, has invested two times to Facebook, with a total investment of $120 million trillion.