How much revenue top companies earn per second

Re:How much revenue top companies earn per second by mseebach on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:00AM (#6724113)

To what end? Looking at revenue in isolation is mostly pointless. The presented companies have vastly different businesses with different revenue flows.

Shell, by the way, is $14,800/second. These numbers are public and trivially discoverable.

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Re:How much revenue top companies earn per second by mswe on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @08:47AM (#6725090)

Which one can observe, data that is easily discover-able but in its raw format is not interesting. Visual is.

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Re:How much revenue top companies earn per second by jlarocco on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @11:19AM (#6726183)

IMO the visual on the page was annoying, and not very informative.

The bar chart somebody linked to showed the same data in a much nicer way. Easier to grasp at a glance, and easier to make comparisons.

To make the page's visual work it would have been better to show later numbers in terms of the previous companies. Show, for example, that Facebook is 1.3 Blackberries, Nokia is 4 Facebooks, etc.

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