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Facebook now has 1.39bn active users (and it's rolling in cash)

The social media company’s profits have beaten expectations.

FACEBOOK’S QUARTERLY PROFIT has jumped 33.8% from last year to $696 million (€615m) as ad revenue and membership grew at the leading social network.

The social media giant said that revenue in the final quarter of last year hit $3.85 billion (€3.41bn) as the number of active monthly users increased 13 percent to 1.39 billion.

“We got a lot done in 2014,” said Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

“Our community continues to grow and we’re making progress towards connecting the world.”

A strong showing in ads served up on smartphones or tablet computers helped Facebook earnings beat analyst forecasts.

Shares sank slightly more than a percent to $75.40 in after-market trades that followed release of the figures.

Facebook saw its first quarter of taking in more than $3 billion (€2.65bn) overall from ads, with about two-thirds of that coming from mobile advertising revenue which soared 69% from the same period a year earlier.

An average of 745 million Facebook members daily used mobile devices to visit the social network in December of last year, the company reported.

Facebook said that its properties Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp recently topped 300 million, 500 million, and 700 million monthly active users respectively.

For the full year, Facebook’s profit nearly doubled to $2.9 billion and revenue jumped 58 percent to $12.8 billion.

- © AFP, 2015

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