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Facebook stock spikes despite significant reduction in demand for ads

The coronavirus pandemic is considerably slowing the expansion of Facebook’s ads industry, however buyers appear happy with the corporate’s efficiency in Q1 after Facebook launched its income record Wednesday. The corporate beat Wall Street expectancies on revenues, sharing that they'd ma…
The coronavirus pandemic is significantly slowing the growth of Facebook’s ads business, but investors seem pleased with the company’s performance in Q1 after Facebook released its earnings report Wednesday. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenues, sharing that they had ma…

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Author: Lucas Matney

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  2. "Zoom was never meant to be a social network, but the enterprise video chat app has become essential software for those looking to stay in touch with friends and family during the pandemic". (May 14, 2020)
  3. "The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebooks products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantine lockdown". (April 29, 2020)
  4. "A number of popular apps including Spotify, GroupMe, Pinterest and TikTok were fielding user iOS crash reports Wednesday evening, the result of an apparent issues with Facebooks SDK according to a lengthy GitHub thread on the topic". (May 7, 2020)
  5. "With Google and Facebook yielding massive control over the online ad market, leaving only scraps for other ad platforms, perhaps it was only natural that tech startups would take a step back and start to look for opportunities in selling billboards". (February 13, 2020)
  6. "Facebook is restructuring its experimental hardware efforts and giving its moonshot projects a home within its AR/VR research division". (December 15, 2018)
  7. "Facebook spent a large amount of time at its Oculus Connect 6 keynote detailing the new links between its VR headset and the company’s core Facebook app". (September 25, 2019)
  8. "Subscription pricing is landing on Facebooks Oculus Store, giving VR developers another way to monetize content on Facebooks Oculus Quest headset". (April 15, 2021)
  9. "Facebook’s relentless blatant feature copy of Snapchat have been seen as one of the chief examples of the company’s competitive overreach, but Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t sure whether antitrust activity from the government is going to change the company’s near-term prospects…". (October 4, 2019)
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