We all knew Facebook was huge. We all knew that a ton of people use Facebook on a regular basis. Now we know the true numbers from Q1 2013 and they’re probably bigger than you might have expected. According to their public results release, Facebook had 1.11 billion monthly active users as of the end of March, a number that represents the people who logged into Facebook at least once in a 30-day period. The daily active users is arguably more impressive, nearing 2/3rds of a billion people at 665 million who log in every day. That’s a lot of cheddar potential for the company with the numbers representing…

It isn’t too common for Wall Street analysts to be very wrong. They have good indicators and past performances upon which to generate their predictions and it’s often more accurate than the weather. With Google’s Q4 2012 analysis, they were wrong by a mile even at Google’s revenue standards. They reported $14.42 billion in the last quarter and earnings per share of $10.65 on a non-GAAP basis. Analyst had expected that Google would have revenues of $12.3 billion. “We ended 2012 with a strong quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenues were up 36% year-on-year, and 8% quarter-on-quarter….

Mobile marketing is here to stay, but are mobile ads as profitable as they could be? With growth for mobile advertising projected at 80% in 2012, Facebook ads are an increasingly important section of the Internet for product marketers. In the first quarter of 2012, Facebook generated over one billion dollars in revenue, 82% of which came straight from ads. And it’s certainly true that the Internet is king — the revenue Facebook generated in just three months outpaced People magazine’s yearly gross. Accessing the social networking site on mobile devices also wins the day, with the average Facebook…

Unlike other ‘old media’ establishments like newspapers or the music industry, the movie business has been hit less dramatically by the rise of the web – despite the fact that piracy is rampant. Even though revenues from DVD sales have continued to decline, box office receipts have, at the very least, kept up with inflation. Unlike the catastrophic losses at places like Universal Music, people who make films are still doing relatively okay. But that’s not to say there isn’t trouble ahead. In fact, as Paidcontent reports a recent study put out by PriceWaterhouseCooper suggests the movie biz might…

First, let’s get the numbers out of the way. For their first fiscal quarter ending on December 25, 2010, Apple – a small American tech company who you may have heard makes a phone, computers (and some kind of  ‘pad’?) – earned a profit of $6 billion on $26.74 billion of revenue. To put that into perspective, their sales of 4.23 million Macs, 16.24 million iPhones, 19.45 million iPods and 7.33 million iPads produced more revenue in one quarter than the annual gross domestic product of Iceland, Paraguay or Cyprus. It also means Apple pulls in more revenue than the GDP of nearly two-thirds of the world’s…