Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work

Re:Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work by JonnieCache on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:30PM (#3271593)

I always thought it'd be funny if it turned out google solved the energy crisis in their 20% time. Imagine how smug they'd be. It'd make apple look pretty stupid.

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Re:Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work by mahyarm on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:06PM (#3271970)

Even although they make less money than apple by an order of magnitude, i've always felt like google was the more innovative engineering organization. Apple I feel is more of an industrial design organization at heart in all layers.

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Re:Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work by redthrowaway on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @09:35PM (#3272768)

>Even although they make less money than apple by an order of magnitude,

Google reported revenues of ~30B for FY10, Apple reported ~60B. That's only an order of magnitude in binary.

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Re:Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work by nl on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @09:50PM (#3272794)

Even although they make less money than apple by an order of magnitude

Apple makes more money than Google, but no where near an order of magnitude more. It would be more accurate to say they make between 2 and 3 times more (depending on what you call "make money"):

Apple: Revenue = 108.25B, Gross Profit = 43.82B, EBITDA = 35.57B

Google: Revenue = 35.76B, Gross Profit = 18.90B, EBITDA = 13.45B

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