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I'm not trying to be snarky but is it really competition if it's just two players?
Yes. Isn't a basketball game a competition?
There's usually a league with more than 2 teams :)
Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
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#33Some fun Facebook facts from the earnings call/report - Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. - Facebook's headcount is now at 20,658. That's up 43 percent since last year - Average Revenue Per User Rises 23% to $4.73, Down from 4Q 2016 -…
Important to remember that advertising revenue _always_ peaks in Q4, and that was an election year too, so even if they're down YoY this Q4 I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Given Facebook's global reach, every year is going to be election year. I appreciate nobody spends on elections quite like the USA, but there's still a lot of money to go around in other countries.
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#34Is there an alternate article that isn't behind a paywall?
@recursion posted this around the same time: http://archive.is/h2465
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That is absolutely insane. Should we seriously be considering anti-trust regulators to crack down on their insane growth?
The point of anti-trust laws is not to punish success, but to police against an entity using their dominant position in one market to take over a different market.
This is an interesting question for two-sided operations like Google and Facebook. Having a near-monopoly in online search also gives Google a near-monopsony in online search advertising. Likewise for Facebook with social networking.
I'm wary of introducing regulation without clear evidence of its necessity. However, there is a reasonable argument that if exploiting a monopoly to gain advantage in an adjacent market can be harmful, then exploiting a monopoly to gain an advantage in an opposing market could be harmful too. It therefore seems reasonable to ask whether the traditional applications of anti-trust principles are still appropriate for these huge modern tech markets.
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I tried to self host my ads on my personal web site... there are no good open source ad servers. A breakthrough in this area could bring disruption.
Just from curiosity. OpenX is not around anymore?
Yeah, they sold their open source version to Revive and OpenX is now only closed source. Revive is the only existing option. I don't run mysql nor php on my server so I'm a bit reluctant to have to manage it, but it looks like I have no choice.
Re: Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
#37Some fun Facebook facts from the earnings call/report - Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. - Facebook's headcount is now at 20,658. That's up 43 percent since last year - Average Revenue Per User Rises 23% to $4.73, Down from 4Q 2016 -…
99% of the growth!! Thoughts on anti-trust? If you're capturing every single part of the growth of a huge previously diversified market, whats the arguments against?
It seems like it would be a disaster to break up Facebook. You can't really have more than one social network that everybody uses. Forcing everyone to split off into groups wouldn't work, to put it mildly.
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#39How would you define "killing it" to a non-native, English speaker?
Re: Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
#40Some fun Facebook facts from the earnings call/report - Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. - Facebook's headcount is now at 20,658. That's up 43 percent since last year - Average Revenue Per User Rises 23% to $4.73, Down from 4Q 2016 -…
99% of the growth!! Thoughts on anti-trust? If you're capturing every single part of the growth of a huge previously diversified market, whats the arguments against?
I believe its 99% of the growth in digital advertising[1], not all advertising.
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-and-google-domin...