Hubpages is making how much?????

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   SimeyCposted 12 years ago

   I just read the news article about Hubpages inclusion in the Lead411s top technology 200 and saw the following line:
   
   "Applicants were required to be privately held, U.S. based companies with at least $500,000 million in revenue"
   
   WOW - that's $500 Billion - didn't realize HP was doing that well! Methinks it may be a typo?!

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      wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Even though HP now takes in all the earnings from HPads and re-distributes I don't think that even if you call that revenue it would be that much.
      
      I think someone stuttered on the zero key.

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         Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         
         True dat! - or maybe they left out a hyphen between a "0" and the "m"?

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      Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yeah, it probably is a typo.
      
      Aside from the article you read, but your own typo counts as one that is even worse.
      
      $500,000 million isn't $500 Billion?

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         SimeyCposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         1000 million is now a Billion.
         
         When I were a young lad in England 1 Billion was 1,000,000,000,000 but alas it is no more!
         
         http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/howmanybillion

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            Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Ooooh, Simey, thank you so much!  I asked about this, here:
            
            http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/77320#post1672852
            
            with no response.   
            
            If you have any answers for the unanswered questions in that thread (and I understand that they would now be obsolete, according to the link you posted), I would love to know - i.e., I would love to know what those names were.

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            WriteAngledposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            This pisses me off majorly.
            
            Why the hell should I have to adopt US conventions when British English is older by many centuries!
            
            As from now, I will not use the term billion ever again, as a protest!

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               Greek Oneposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               should be in drachmas

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                  WriteAngledposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Drachmas, shekels, roubles, sesterces... 
                  
                  whatever...
                  
                  I don't care about the currency, but I want billion to retain its correct meaning!

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                  habeeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Should be in southern currency - pigs, chickens, and moonshine.

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               Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               There is a more lengthy historical explanation in SimeyC's two other links.  A lot of what they described surprised me (the French connection, for example).

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               Eaglekiwiposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Good for you
               
               Honestly Im broke ,no matter whose currency is up there.

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               SimeyCposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               LOL well as a British man I quite like the fact that I'm closer to being a US billionaire rather than a British billionaire!
               
               Sadly it's the international community that decides rather than the Brits or US! As an example - Aluminium is the standard word world wide in Engineering, even though the US says Aluminum - so the US doesn't always get their way!

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         Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I don't understand what you are saying here, Cags.  (Sorry!)  Are you going by the old British system or the current one/American one?

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            SimeyCposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            The problem is that I don't think there is anything official anywhere - apparently there was a change many years ago, but I still used the British Billion when I first came to the US!
            
            Here's an interesting discussion though:
            
            http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52579.html
            
            
            and here's one explaining all the terms:
            
            http://eyeful-tower.com/muse/billion.htm

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               Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks, SimeyC!  I'm heading over now to read both of these.

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   psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

   Last year their profit was about 10 million according to the San Fran business times. Maybe that is what they have made in total since opening?

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   Greek Oneposted 12 years ago

   that's just of my hubs alone!

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   A worthy subpage.
   
   http://www.lead411.com/company_HubPages … 84265.html

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      WriteAngledposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      According to information in that link, the average salary of HP staff is $78,220.
      
      I wouldn't mind a salary like that! I get perhaps 60% for working 18+ hour days most days including weekends.

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   psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

   The American method is the American method, not the "current" one.  But therein lies the explanation.  You need three more zeros to be a British Billionaire.

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      SimeyCposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      The American is more 'accepted' though - when you hear that someone earned a Billion pounds it's generally the American Billion:
      
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13321462

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      Aficionadaposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Let me rephrase then:
      "Are you going by the old [or "used to be," as denoted in the article SimeyC linked] British system or the current [British] one ["now" or "nowadays," according to the Oxford Dictionaries article SimeyC linked], i.e. the American one?"

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   Aficionadaposted 12 years ago

   Fascinating discussions!  Thanks so much for the links - I've bookmarked them both.
   
   I was familiar with the term milliard from the time I spent in Germany, but I had not heard of billiard (except in connection with the game), trilliard, etc.
   
   And I was especially interested to see that France did not adopt the "échelle longue" until 1948.

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   Google Pandaposted 12 years ago

   Man, break me off a piece of that!!

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