More than 13 percent of the world’s citizenry is now on Facebook. The amusing arrangement behemothic arise an adapted S-1 filing to the Security and Exchange Commission this afternoon, account abstracts from the aboriginal division of the year. According to the S-1, Facebook currently has 901 actor account alive users a 33 percent jump from aftermost year.
Of the 901 actor users on Facebook, 526 actor of them (58.3 percent) use the armpit every day. That’s a 41 percent access from the 372 actor circadian alive users (DAUs) that visited the amusing arrangement as of March 2011. Facebook additionally says that 488 actor account alive users (MAUs) acclimated Facebook’s adaptable apps in March of this year.
The 901 actor bodies on Facebook accept created a absolute of 125 billion acquaintance connections, the aggregation says. And, on average, the absolute Facebook association produces 3.2 billion “likes” and comments anniversary day.
On the banking front, Facebook says that it becoming $1.1 billion in acquirement during the division catastrophe March 31, a 44.7 percent access from the aforementioned aeon aftermost year. However, profits are down; Facebook’s net assets for the aboriginal division 2012 came in at $137 million, bottomward 10.7 percent year-on-year.
The amend to its S-1 filing is aloof added affirmation that its antecedent accessible alms is advancing up fast. The aggregation is broadly accepted to book in mid- to late-May, with some letters suggesting it will clearly go accessible on May 17.
Earlier today, Facebook arise that it affairs to acquirement 650 patents from Microsoft for about $550 actor patents that Microsoft purchased this ages from AOL. Facebook is accepted to use its patents to advice action aback Yahoo, which afresh sued the amusing arrangement for apparent infringement. Yahoo says that the Facebook-Microsoft accord shows that Facebook is weak.
Perhaps. According to Facebook’s S-1 filing, however, the greatest crisis to Facebook and Facebook’s investors is a abortion “to absorb absolute users or add fresh users,” which would “significantly” abuse FAcebook’s “revenue, banking results, and business.” But for now, this does not arise to be an breadth Facebook needs to anguish abundant about.
