Facebook beats estimates and makes tons
of money in the tech space we've seen a
lot of social networks that just didn't
make it remember livejournal or
Friendster or myspace well it looks like
Facebook will not join that list just
yet facebook announced it earned 8.8 1
billion dollars in its quarterly
earnings statement earnings beat
analysts estimates they were expecting a
koala 88.5 1 billion dollars of that 8.8
1 billion dollars Facebook's profit was
3.5 billion dollars last year over the
same time period Facebook's profit was
one point five six billion dollars
that's a huge increase Facebook's
monthly active user base grew to 1.8 six
billion its daily active users were 1.2
3 billion on average for December 2016
there are approximately seven billion
people on earth that would mean over
twenty six percent of Earthlings are
monthly active Facebook users seventeen
percent are daily users think about that
Mark Zuckerberg gave some insight into
the future of Facebook particularly
facebook video he says the company is
interested in videos that users upload
for friends as well as professional
content the company is focusing on
shorter form content to start zuckerberg
says he wants people to turn to facebook
when they want to watch new videos and
return for episodic content episodic
content that sounds like something
Netflix or YouTube were try for more
details check out cnet com I maya's act
hard and I'll see you online
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