cnet:

Facebook by the numbers:

User engagement

• 955 million monthly active users, up 29% year-over-year.
• 552 million daily active users, up 32% year-over-year.
• 543 million users, up 67% year-over-year.

Sales and earnings

• Total revenue: $1.18 billion, up 32% from $895 million in the second quarter of 2011.
• Revenue from advertising:$992 million, up 28% from last year.
• Payments and other fees revenue for the second quarter was $192 million.

Miscellaneous

• Costs and expenses: $1.93 billion, up 295% from the second quarter of 2011.
• $743 million GAAP loss from operations, compared to income from operations of $407 million a year earlier.
• Excluding share-based compensation and related payroll tax expenses, $515 million in non-GAAP income from operations, compared to $477 million in the second quarter of 2011.
• $157 million GAAP net loss compared to $240 million in net income in the second quarter of 2011.
• Capital expenditures: $413 million, up 213%
• Cash and marketable securities: $10.2 billion, including $6.8 billion in net proceeds from Facebook’s initial public offering.

Bit of a mixed bag really

springwise:

Real-world locations can be digitally bookmarked with new app

We’ve already seen a number of ways to connect physical objects to the digital world, by attaching QR code stickers or assigning items a unique digital identity. Now Finnish app Grafetee aims to provide a platform to bookmark real-world locations for later reference and share them with friends. READ MORE…

futurist-foresight:

The internet, visualized as its major data cable networks.

courtenaybird:

What the Internet Actually Looks Like 

Here is what the Internet looks like: not a series of GIFs or a video of surfing goats, but a spindly collection of fiberoptic cables. The Internet, as a physical thing, actually looks a lot like a series of tubes. 

(via wildcat2030)