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"At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173, the new iPhone is
significantly less expensive to produce than the first-generation
product, despite major improvements in the product's functionality and
unique usability, due to the addition of 3G communications... The
original 8Gbyte iPhone carried a cost of $226 after component price
reductions, giving the new product a 23 percent hardware cost reduction
due to component price declines."
Read the full article at iSuppli's Preliminary Study. The image shows the BOM from the iSuppli article. Click on the image for larger version.
- 50,000 http requests per second
- 80,000 SQL queries per second
- 7 million registered users
- 18 million page objects in the English version
- 250 million page links # 220 million revisions
- 1.5 terabytes of compressed data
Read the full article at A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure - Data Center Knowledge.
- They prefer to shop in a store (82%) to shop online (18%)
- They prefer to IM a friend (54%) over calling (46%)
- They would rather get their locker vandalized (63%) than their homepage (37%)
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I have followed Jingle's Free411 service (1-800-FREE-411) since they are a voice service like Frucall's initial voice based comparison shopping. They have done an amzing job, specially given the competition from Google (1-800-GOOG-411). At this point they have about 6-7% of the US directory assistance market, and they are processing about 20M calls per month.
The company had raised two series of financing before and the valuation was around $150M in 2006. They just announced a series C round of about $13M with existing investors.
The amount is low compared to the valuation and their series B, so I'm not sure what exactly is going on. The company has just reached profitability, and their market share and call volume is great. I would expect a larger amount for aggressive growth and capturing more market share. I hope this is not a down round for them for unknown reasons. Most probably their estimates about their expenditure have been off, and they are running out of money sooner than they think so they are doing an internal round.
The table shows the last round of financing. Some more data about total money raised can be searched on Private Equity Data Center
