Facebook Hits 1.71B users, records $6.44 in 2016

Facebook has announced the financial results for Q2, 2016. The social network giant has recorded $6.44 billion revenue for the quater which ended on june 30, 2016.
Facebook said it now has over 1.7 billion monthly active users adding 60million new users since the last quater. With a daily average of 1.13 billion active users (DAU), an inrease of 17%year over year.
The social network had over 1.57 billion mobile users. Facebook announced another milestone of 1.03billion mobile daily active users (recording a 22% increase over the years).

The founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said,

OUR COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS HAD ANOTHER GOOD QUARTER. WE'RE PARTICULARLY PLEASED WITH OUR PROGRESS IN VIDEO AS WE MOVE TOWARDS A WORLD WHERE VIDEO IS AT THE HEART OF ALL OUR SERVICES.

Mobile advertising revenue recorded approximately 84% of advertising revenue for the second quarter of 2016, up to from approximately 76% of advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2015.

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