Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Facebook sees profits rise strongly after the eventful quarter – NU.nl

The social network Facebook last quarter, a profit was made of rounded 3.6 billion dollar (3.3 billion euro). That is more than doubling in the same period a year earlier.

That leaves Facebook Wednesday evening in the quarterly report, to know (pdf). A year ago, earned Facebook a profit of 1.6 billion dollars (1.49 billion euros).

in Addition, it also performed better than the previous quarter, where the network has a profit-making 2.4 billion dollars (2.2 billion euros).

total sales increased in the last quarter to 8.8 billion dollars (8.2 billion euros), 51 percent more than in the same period last year.

New users

Facebook has 50 million active users in the last quarter of 2016. The number of daily active members has increased to 1.23 billion, of which the majority of the website on mobile devices visit: 1.15 billion. A quarter this amounted to the figures respectively 1.18 billion and 1,09 billion users.

also, has Facebook now monthly 1,86 billion active users, an increase of seventeen percent compared to the same period last year.

The company earned by far the most on mobile ads, which were responsible for 84 percent of the ad revenue. Which rose to $ 8.6 billion.

Eventful quarter

Despite the fact that the figures present a positive image show, has Facebook an eventful quarter behind the back. On the social network appeared several nepnieuwsverhalen, who may have exerted influence on the American presidential election.

in Addition came Wednesday earlier in the news that the company $ 500 million to gameontwikkelaar ZeniMax should pay in the Oculus case. Facebook is the owner of the virtualrealitybril.

By: NU.nl

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