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December 28, 2011

Facebook Beats its Competitors in India

Filed under: Society — Tags: — Winson @ 2:42 AM

The popularity of Facebook across the globe is well known. Among all the developing countries it has reached maximum number of users from India by attracting more number of teenagers. According to the latest reports from ComScore, Facebook has beaten its competitors like Orkut and Yahoo and became the top social networking site in India with 20.9 million users.

Previously it was Orkut, which remained as the most popular site in India, but its now Facebook’s turn. With more number of features and sharing options than Orkut, it has attracted more number of users in less time. For the first time in July, 2011, facebook grabbed number one rank in social networking category with 20.9 million users, up 179 percent from the previous year.

The report also mentioned that there are more than 33 million Internet users in India, who visited social networking sites in the month of July, but among them most visited was Facebook making it as top one. With this, India now ranks as the seventh largest market worldwide for social networking after the US, China, Germany, Russia, Brazil and the UK. The report also mentioned that during last year growth of social networking audience is 43 percent which is triple the rate of total internet audience in India.

Followed by Facebook is Orkut ranked second with 19.9 million visitors, BharatStudent.com, Twitter, and Yahoo. Sites like Orkut, Twitter, and Yahoo used to be in the top places among the social networking sites before the advent of Facebook. But now it is ruling the networking world with a huge user base. By including more privacy options it is attracting more and more users every month/year.

December 13, 2011

Statistics of Spanish Speaking Population in U.S

Filed under: Society & Politics — Tags: — Winson @ 5:24 AM

The latest US census bureau released in March, 2011 has stated that the Spanish speaking population in US has grown beyond 50 million. Besides English, Spanish is the next most widely taught and adapted foreign language. Most of the parts of Latin America and Mexico have largest Spanish speaking population. After Spain, it is Mexico which has the largest Spanish speaking population. The Census also forecast that the Hispanics population may make up to the one third of the U.S population.

It is found that the population rise is mainly due to the growth in the number of child births, rather than immigration. Till 2010, the Hispanics population under the age 18 has grown to 23% form 17% in 2000. In 2000, 81% of the Spanish speaking population is spread over 9 states – California, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois and Florida. But now it is reduced to 75% which indicates the wide spread of the Spanish population, particularly in the South East.

In the cities like Kentucky, South and North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc., the Spanish population has almost doubled. With Hispanic population of 46.3%, New Mexico has the largest percentage of Spanish speakers in US. It is followed by Texas and California with 37.6%.

The regions in which the Hispanic population remained steady were Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Louisiana.

On the whole, the total population growth in the US since 2000 was 27.3 percent and Hispanics contributed for more than half of that percentage.

December 9, 2011

Facility Management Cuts Costs and Improves Productivity

Filed under: Business — Tags: — Winson @ 8:35 AM

Facility management is a special field which offers multiple services to cater the needs of various clients. They have the highly experienced management team which works hard for providing best services in order to stay potentially competitive in their respective field. They take up more challenges and tasks which show greater impact on the productivity and cost. Any company can get the required benefits by outsourcing the services which they find tough and can get expected results when given to a reputed facility management company.

Facility managers improve the efficiency of the facility by implementing effective measures with their expertise. They have tie ups with different businesses and hence can get the best deals for various products and equipment used for the construction of new buildings and in the renovation of existing interiors. They also provide relocation facilities which take up the tasks from searching the new facility to shifting all the things to that facility with perfect calculation and planning.

One can reduce the amount of pressure and stress by outsourcing certain things to the facility management experts in which they are professionals. Several studies have shown that outsourcing facility management services saves the management 18% of the costs than by doing it by themselves. One of the best saving methods one can find is, the outsourcing of maintenance works followed by payroll outsourcing and IT support outsourcing.

Along with the assurance of quality services facility management experts are also helpful in reducing the risks of the liability with regards to the areas of operation that are being serviced by reducing the risks of the company which it might face in the future. Since the experts in the facility management team are specially trained you can expect quality service which further increases the productivity of the company.

December 3, 2011

Things to be Considered Before Signing a Mineral Right Lease

Filed under: Business — Tags: — Winson @ 10:25 AM

Instead of buying mineral rights the oil and gas companies often extract minerals by leasing the mineral rights of the surface. This lease of mineral rights, provides the company the right to extract minerals for the mentioned period of time. Even though the deals are so clear the owner of the surface needs to consider few things before signing the contract and they are listed below.

  • It is often important to take enough time to decide whether to go for the deal or to wait for some thing which can be better and beneficial than the present deal. As the oil and gas companies have enough time for their projects they never leave the deals and will wait till you come back.
  • The moment you get a deal from a mineral company, it is a sign for you that a couple of companies are awaiting to send you the mail. So, do not be quick in decisions, let all the companies come and compare the quotes made by them. So that you can opt for one which is more beneficial than the rest.
  • If any company wants to approach you, they will send a person to talk to you regarding the deal and the other things. Try to know about the person, and try to find whether he is directly from the company or an agent recruited by the company for such operations, or a speculator, who wants to buy the rights from you and tries to sell them to the companies for more profit.
  • Next thing is hiring the attorney. It is not a wise idea to hire an attorney as soon as you get a deal since he starts billing you right from that moment. So, once you get all the deals and when you choose the best among them, then hire that person before signing the agreement or for some documentation.
  • During the paper work make sure that every thing which was spelled is on paper and also take help of the attorney to understand the agreement made by the company so that there will be no other issues after the work starts.

These are the few things which helps you to take a wise decision regarding the leasing of mineral rights.

December 2, 2011

Facebook Ranked Second During October 2011 US Online Video Rankings

Filed under: Society — Tags: , — Winson @ 2:12 AM

Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites has already reached its rank for having huge number of users and is equally liked by many number of people. But latest news shows its ranking in terms of online videos is giving a good competition to one of the famous video hubs Youtube.

Comscore, released data from the comScore Video Metrix service which showed 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in the month of October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience viewed 42.6% billion videos which is recorded as an all time high.

When it comes to the Top 1- video content properties by unique users, iGoogle sites are ranked as top online video content property in October. Driven primarily by video viewing at Youtube.com, it secured 161 million unique viewers and reached a record high of 20.9 billion videos viewed.

Facebook ranked second with 59.8 million viewers followed by VEVO with 57 million, Microsoft sites with 49.1 million and Viacom Digital with 48.2 million. More than 42 billion videos were viewed during the month of October, with the average viewer watching a record 21.1 hours. Google Sites demonstrated the highest viewer engagement with 7.1 hours per viewer.

These reports are showing how a social networking site without any official videos but just get videos from the uploads done by the members of the site is giving huge competition to Google which has an official video uploading website You tube. Facebook has extensive following among the teens and since the video has been shared many times, and hence it takes very less time for the video or any other upload to get popular among people.

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