More than a billion people now log onto Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing.
More than a billion people now log onto Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing.
That’s double the 500 million it hit in July 2010 . Facebook had 100 million users in August 2008.
The latest milestone amounts to nearly half of the world’s roughly 2.5 billion Internet users, as measured by the International Telecommunications Union.
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NEW YORK — A year ago, Facebook was just testing the waters of mobile advertising, causing plenty of headaches for investors ahead of its massive initial public offering.
Facebook took a stab Tuesday at cracking a big, elusive problem of its own making: how to help its 1 billion users find what they’re looking for in the jumble of posts, pictures and blue thumbs-up “likes” they share every day.
Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.
Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.
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