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Facebook shows the way to other tech giants

July 29, 2013 10:02 IST

Image: Facebook is answering questions that its rivals cannot.
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Facebook is answering questions that its rivals cannot. Big technology firms have mostly reported sub-par second-quarter earnings, with desktop software giant Microsoft the leading victim of the shift to mobile computing.

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Facebook shows the way to other tech giants

Image: Mark Zuckerberg with his wife Priscilla Chan at the Sun Valley in Idaho, United States.
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By contrast, Mark Zuckerberg's social network is thriving on portable gadgets, and Facebook's revenue growth - 53 per cent to $1.8 billion in the quarter - was the fastest since its initial public offering in May last year. There's more fuel here.

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Image: Employees dine near a fire at an outdoor cafe at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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The number of people going to Facebook via mobile devices continues its inexorable rise. Of the 1.15 billion people who visit the site monthly, more than 800 million now do so via smartphones and tablets.

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Image: A game of chess at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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More importantly, Facebook has figured out how to sell advertising on those smaller screens. Mobile now accounts for more than 41 per cent of all advertising revenue, up from about 30 per cent last quarter and close to nothing a year ago.

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Image: A view of the design studio at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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Not only is Facebook serving up lots of mobile ads, it is getting more revenue out of each one. According to the company, the price per ...

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That's notable when Internet search giant Google is seeing its revenue per ...

Facebook shows the way to other tech giants

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The mobile advertising engine is revving up, too. Users are spending a lot of their time on mobile devices, but as yet only about 2 per cent of global ad spending is aimed at smartphones and tablets, Facebook reckons.

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Image: A view of the international user operations area at the headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park, California.
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It seems nearly inevitable that advertisers will eventually spend more money and time reaching people on their handheld gadgets. At one stage there were questions about Facebook's ability to capitalise on that trend. Now it looks like one of the few tech firms that has figured out how to do just that.

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