Facebook posted strong results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2013 on Wednesday, showing impressive growth in its advertising and payments businesses and earnings that soundly beat analysts' expectations. Revenue for the quarter was $1.81bn, a 53 per cent increase over the year-ago quarter. Of that total, 88 per cent (or …

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Thursday 25th July 2013 06:32 GMT Anonymous Coward

Revenue from Mobile Ads is up... well thats probably because more often than not if you try to report a mobile ad so you can block it FB actually follows the link in the advert.. I've "clicked" on quite a few adverts on mobile fb on my S3... every single one of them has been a rogue click caused by FB obviously having purposely mis-sized the hotspots.

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1. Thursday 25th July 2013 13:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  This.
  
  Oh so much.
  
  One of the reasons that I don't use the FacePalm app on any of my mobile devices - the ads get crowbarred into the Timeline and it's depressingly easy to click one by mistake.
  
  Since there's no 'middle finger' icon, they can just Zuck off and die in a fire (see what I did there?)
  
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Thursday 25th July 2013 10:48 GMT ecofeco

Facebook

The "tramp stamp" of the Internet.

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Thursday 25th July 2013 12:28 GMT Lallabalalla

There are adverts on facebook?

Never seen one. Adblock.

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1. Thursday 25th July 2013 13:19 GMT bigtimehustler
  
  Re: There are adverts on facebook?
  
  Adblock in the facebook app on the timeline? hmmm... how exactly?
  
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  1. Thursday 25th July 2013 17:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: There are adverts on facebook?
    
    Adblock is one of the most important features of an Android phone for me.
    
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Thursday 25th July 2013 13:45 GMT JDX

Credit where it's due, they were struggling for ages to get mobile use up and find a way to generate revenue from mobile users.

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Thursday 25th July 2013 18:16 GMT lowwall

It all makes sense now

Now I understand. Years ago, Facebook put into action a fiendishly clever plan of regular privacy "gaffes" to ensure that those who were both interested in their personal data integrity and capable of doing something about it voluntarily removed themselves from the service. This has left Facebook with a user base that will accept anything at all.

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Friday 26th July 2013 01:00 GMT jglathe

The world is in a worse state than I thought...

Facebook. I hoped this would be over soon.

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