Mark Zuckerberg’s stake in Facebook has been reduced to just under 20%, according to an SEC filing on Friday. Zuckerberg, the company’s cofounder and CEO, now owns 478.9 million shares of Facebook, or 19.6% of all shares. One year ago, Zuckerberg’s stake in the company was nearly 30% See also: Is Facebook Too Big to Fail? In December, Zuckerberg sold $2.3 billion worth of Facebook, largely to pay his tax bills for options that he exercised Zuckerberg famously pledged in September 2012 not to sell any shares of Facebook for at least a year, a move that was intended to show his confidence in the stock at a time when it had hit a new low. A few months later, he actually increased his stake in the company to 29.3% from 28.2% on the day of the IPO. Read more… More about Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , Stocks , and Business
It’s Not Just Sochi: Centuries of Olympic Scandals in 1 Map
Scandal has surrounded every aspect of the Winter Games in Sochi. From anti-gay remarks to stray dog slaughtering to environmental concerns to shoddy construction to yogurt wars to — well, you get the point. But the Sochi Games is far from the first time Olympic festivities have been marred by scandal involving both the competitions and the social conditions surrounding the event at a whole. See also: The Athletes Arrive: 15 Behind-the-Scenes Photos From Sochi During the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis, a marathon runner who finished in first place was later disqualified for driving a car throughout most of the race. In 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime oversaw the games in Berlin.
3D printing technology to help produce jet engine parts
The world’s largest jet engine maker Rock Hill, South Carolina based General Electric (GE) is turning to 3D printing to make airplane parts. More specifically it is trying to build more than 85,000 fuel nozzles for its Leap engines using 3D printers. It bought 3D printing company Morris Technologies last year and spent millions of other dollars on other acquisitions and hardware. GE is not alone in this field and Boeing, Nike, Siemens, and Rolls-Royce are also using the technology and making substantial investments to improve it. They all expect to get required parts faster, at a higher quality and lower cost.
3D printing is a process of making three-dimensional solid objects using an additive process where layers of material are laid to make the final product. Some compare it to an industrial robot. The technology has been around since the 1980s but commercial availability of printers became widely used in 2010s. Some estimates the 3D printer market equal to about $2.2 billion a year industry. GE’s biggest problem at the moment is finding industrial grade systems capable of producing metal parts. 3D Systems is the largest maker of 3d printers in the United States.
Facebook’s data center of tomorrow challenge typical data centers
Article submitted by My Systems Journal.
The world’s computing hardware industry is estimated at more than $100 billion a year. Major manufacturers of servers, networking gear and storage equipment includes Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. More and more Asian manufacturers are entering the market place and new free technologies introduced by Facebook are threatening the existence of major industry players.
In April 2011, Facebook started a new blueprint for its hardware known as the Open Compute Project. It allowed outsiders to join its engineers to build a new data center of tomorrow. An experimental data center is located just outside the Arctic Circle in Luléa, Sweden. Facebook claim the building is most energy efficient mega data center ever built in the world. It uses two-thirds less energy than a typical data center to process data and to cool the entire facility including servers. It takes frigid air from outside to cool servers and vents out hot air. Additionally, it slimmed down most of the servers getting rid of outer covers exposing motherboards to arctic air for efficient cooling. The center can handle 350 million photographs, 10 billion massages and another 4.5 billion similar things a day. The project has gotten the attention of computing behemoths.
Make an Ice Cream Shop that will Stand the Test of Time
Do you run an ice creamer shop? If you do, then props to you! You probably bring smiles to the faces and joy to the hearts of countless kids and kids at heart! Ice cream is such a joyous treat to have especially during a warm summer day with its sweet and cold soothing effect. If you run an ice cream shop—or aspire to run one, then you should know that while the passion to create frozen confections is the core that will drive you to success, there are more than a few important things that you will need to have as well.
The first important step to success is to have high quality products that people can enjoy for years to come. A good ice cream needs to have not only a good balanced taste but excellent texture as well. Second, you need to have a nice location that is accessible to your target market. It is important to have a good location because people usually get ice cream on the go in where they usually pass by. Third, you need to have quality supplies because it adds to the flair of your shop.
Having fancy supplies such as cups and spoons can become a headache and breakage can be a problem. Luckily, there are now online sources of disposable ice cream cups and other ice cream shop supplies that can provide you with bulk and customizable supplies that will surely get the customers rolling through the door.