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CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Revenue Is Not Growing Like Google's Did
In part because of this news, investors are piling into Facebook stock on the private markets at a $56 billion valuation . The assumption is that Facebook is the next Google , a money printing machine that might eventually even be BIGGER than Google. While it's possible that scenario will play out, it's worth looking at how Facebook's revenue growth compares to other online-advertising-driven companies, such as Google and Yahoo .Facebook devrait enregistrer en 2010 un chiffre d'affaires atteignant 2 milliards $US, rapporte Bloomberg qui cite trois sources proches du dossier. Le réseau social le plus populaire au monde devrait dépasser de loin ses premières prévisions pour 2010. L'entreprise de Palo Alto ainsi que les analystes tablaient plus tôt cette année sur un revenu d'un peu moins d'1,5 milliard $US. Ce qui représentait déjà deux fois le chiffre d'affaires de Facebook en 2009.
Facebook engrangerait un revenu de près de 2 milliards $US cette année - Actualités Techno-économie - Médias et Web
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Apple's iPhone business continues to surge . The company's phone division is now by far its biggest: An $8.8 billion business last quarter, representing more than 43% of Apple's overall sales, and growing more than 90% year-over-year. Meanwhile, the Mac had its best quarter ever ($4.9 billion), and the iPad represented almost twice as much revenue last quarter ($2.8 billion) as the iPod ($1.5 billion). But perhaps what's most remarkable is how fast Apple is still growing overall. At $20.3 billion in sales last quarter, Apple still grew 67% year-over-year.
CHART OF THE DAY: The iPhone Is Now Almost Half Of Apple's Revenue
The Financial Times 's new iPad app has generated more than £1m in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according to the paper's deputy chief executive. Ben Hughes, who is also the paper's global commercial director, said more than 400,000 people have downloaded the app. He added that it now accounts for 10% of the paper's new digital subscriptions. "My job is to make the FT brand sweat," he told the MediaGuardian Changing Advertising Summit. "Print [advertising] isn't dead but media owners are just having to find new ways to put [different models] together." Hughes said traditional print advertising now accounts for just 40% of the FT's overall revenue.
Financial Times app brings in £1m | Media | guardian.co.uk
Facebook Ad Spending to Nearly Double This Year: eMarketer
Global marketers will almost double their ad spending within the Facebook social network this year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. The marketing research firm predicts that advertisers worldwide will spend $1.28 billion on ads to reach Facebook’s more than 500 million users in 2010, a 93% increase from the $665 million they spent to do the same in 2009. Advertisement For 2011 eMarketer forecasting says advertisers will spend $1.76 billion in Facebook ads. That will constitute a 165% jump over 2009 spending in the network. By contrast, eMarketer foresees a 14% annual drop in 2011 spending on ads in rival social net MySpace, down to $297 million next year from a projected$347 million this year.
Google Reports Second Quarter Earnings – Is “Very Pleased” With The Results
Supergiant Google has just reported their second quarter financials, showing rising revenue and profit on a year over year basis. In the words of Eric Schmidt: “Google had a strong second quarter. Solid growth in our core business and very strong growth in our emerging businesses drove 24% revenue growth year over year.”SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's financial performance is stronger than previously believed, as the Internet social network's explosive growth in users and advertisers boosted 2009 revenue to as much as $800 million, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The company also earned a solid net profit, in the tens of millions of dollars last year, one of the sources said. That growth in profit and revenue underscores how Facebook is increasingly making money off its 6-year-old service, which ranks as the world's largest Web social network with nearly half a billion users.
Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million | Reuters
Social Gaming Shows Potential - eMarketer
Social gaming has become an online phenomenon. Thanks to the massive popularity of Facebook and the addictive appeal of real-time simulation games, social gaming has gained widespread adoption. The runaway success of FarmVille and other social games such as Zoo World, Happy Aquarium, Pet Society and Restaurant City has spawned an industry that generated an estimated $725 million in the US alone in 2009 and is expected to triple by 2012, according to ThinkEquity . “The success of social gaming is part of a broader transformation to more casual, socially interactive environments,” said Paul Verna, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “ Social Gaming: Virtual Crops Yield Real Profits .” “Forecasts call for continued growth in the social gaming audience, and companies that have built their businesses in the traditional video game industry are shifting resources toward this newer form of game play.”
According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in general are more popular than search engines in some parts of the world. In fact, networks such as Facebook have been pushing hard against the biggest names in web search, including Google, for several months now. As Hitwise reported recently, Facebook’s overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google’s for the first time in the U.S. in March of this year. Now, we’ve learned that in the UK, people are visiting social networks more than they’re visiting search engines. Facebook dominates the current crop of social networks, accounting for the majority (55%) of all social site visits.
Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? [STATS]
This is a guest post by Jeremy Liew , a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he invests in the internet and mobile sectors. His investments include Flixster, Living Social, Playdom, Rockyou and Shoedazzle. He blogs at lsvp.wordpress.com . There has been a lot of speculation about Zynga’s revenue. Last week Business insider said: Zynga, the social gamesmaker behind Farmville, has a revenue run-rate around $600 million, a source close to the company tells us.