Breaking News Wire is reporting that a fire has broken out at Google’s UK headquarters in London.
The 6-story building is located at Buckingham Palace Road, near the Victoria Place Shopping Centre and can be seen below. “We were called in at 1.53 p.m. (local time),” a fire brigade spokesman said according to BNO. Firefighters are still currently on scene battling the fire but it has been described as “not very large” by the fire brigade. Initial rumours suggest that it could be the result of a BBQ gone wrong at Google.
Currently there are no reports that anyone has been injured in the incident and we hope it remains that way. Daily Telegraph reporter Jon Swaine posted a picture of the fire on twitter.
Update:The Telegraph also confirmed the reports and provided a video of the events, we have embedded this below.
Facebook recently moved into new headquarters at a building formerly owned by HP in California, USA.
The team over at TechCrunch were lucky enough to get a glimpse of the new working environment. The new headquarters is located at Palo Alto, California. The company used to base its HQ across a collection of buildings which housed 1,000 employees. As Facebook has grown, the need for a campus has increased and all employees have now moved to the new base named “the bunker” by Facebook workers.
The HQ is 150,000 square feet and is a building that used to be owned by HP and used as a lab. The layout is much more open for employees, allowing them to see who they work with easily. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, was recently interviewed by Robert Scoble where he described Facebook’s “bunker” as “a lot of energy…really cool”. According to Zuckerberg it’s the first time Facebook have had the whole company together in one place for two and a half years.
