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Facebook has 901 million users and 500 million are mobile users

Written on 23 April 2012 by Vincent Abry

Facebook just amended its S-1 filing (SEC), unveiling some interesting figures :

Facebook 900 millions users

-901 million users as of 31 March 2012, an 33% increase compared to March 31, 2011

-488 million mobile users as of March 31 2012 and 500 million mobile users as of April 20, 2012 (remember that Facebook doesn’t yet monetize its spaces on mobile devices)

-526 million daily active users, up 41% compared to March 31, 2011

-1.058 Billion in revenue for first quarter 2012, up 45% over the same period last year

-Net income was down 12% to $ 205 million

-15% of revenues come from Social Game Zynga social in the first quarter

-US. and Canadian users are by far the most profitable for Facebook, reporting an average of $ 2.86 per quarter each, twice the European users ($ 1.40).”

Another interesting statistic: 300 million photos were uploaded on the social network every day and 3.2 billion of “Likes” and comments were filed each day during the first 3 months of 2012.

We also learn that Facebook paid Instagram $ 300 million in cash + 23 million shares at $ 30.89 share, representing a total of $ 1.01 billion.

Facebook also recently purchased for $ 550 million of Patents to Microsoft (650 patents in total). These had been purchased recently by Microsoft to AOL in a 1-billion dollar deal for 800 patents and 300 licenses.

illustration : techcrunch

1 Comment

  1. faisal Le April 25, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    i cannot sign up. what the problem? please help me

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