Facebook just announced its quarterly results and gave an update on the progress of the community to connect the world.
According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, The community now has more than 1,55 billion people, including more than 1 billion active people each day. Through Internet.org, more than 15 million people now have access to Internet opportunities, which was not the case before.
As with previous quarters, a large percentage of Facebook's revenue comes through mobile phones, now accounting for 78% of all advertising dollars on the platform, up from 66 percent for the third quarter of last year.
The company's share price also rose in trading, and exceeded analysts' expectations as it achieved 4,5 billion USD in revenue and a profit of 1.460.000.000 USD. These figures are over 40% over the same period last year.
the CEO also said that the Facebook is focused on innovating and investing for the long term, to serve communities and connect the whole world. since the first Internet access balloons were announced, and the first Satellite called AMOS-6, which is still being developed and could enter orbit in 2016 to cover a large area of sub-Saharan Africa and distribute Free Internet.
In Angola, a few years ago, we were 1 million connected to Facebook, there are data that make us believe that we have passed the 3 million mark connected to Facebook, but need confirmation…
