On the air since Tuesday, Google + has caught the attention of internet users who could call for social networking. Does the search giant finally got an opponent's weight to Facebook? Only time has the answer, but one thing is taken for granted: to launch the Google + cost tens of millions of dollars for the company.
Phil Terry, virtual business, did some math to get to the final price + Google. According to him, Google has invested $ 585 million to produce the new social network. By comparison, News Corp. paid a similar amount in 2005 to get this with MySpace. You know that this week, the social music network changed hands for less than 10% of this amount.
By Terry calculations, about 500 employees were involved in Google's social network. Each would cost around U.S. $ 250 thousand a year for Google in salaries and bonuses. Multiplying factors, the account is already very expensive: $ 125 million of labor costs and compensation actions for employees.
Add to Google investment accounts to buy On2, for $ 123 million, Widevine, for $ 158 million, and Slide, for $ 179 million - all these companies had technology assets and employees, it is known , were used in Google +.
And voila, we arrive at the amount of U.S. $ 585 million. Or half a billion dollars. Only Google to fund an investment of this size.
