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The article says 6 Billion not 6 Trillion.
by epi0Bauqu 19y ago
The article says 6 Billion not 6 Trillion.
- bilbo0s 19y agoUS$6 billion makes more sense. Still a little foolhardy. A projection that goes out 10 years in this industry? Not smart. If you give someone US$1 billion, they cannot hurt WalMart much. I suspect they could hurt Facebook a great deal. Maybe the 'new hotness' will come along, maybe Yahoo! will get their act together, maybe Apple (iPhone) is working on an announcement for the next MacWorld conference, maybe some kid is in his dorm right now about to make the whole social networking thing P2P. The Facebook Fawnfest needs to cool off a bit.
- Jd 19y agoActually, it says 6,049,602 Trillion
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoHmm...when I click on the link, it says "and projects Facebook ad revenue as $6,049,602,150 billion!" in the middle of the text (end of second paragraph). Maybe we are looking in different places?
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoOh I see what you are saying. No, I don't think they meant to say that number and then put another 9 zeros after it. I think they meant it to have it read as the number printed, i.e. what you would say aloud when reading if the word billion was not printed. Of course, one of us could actually register and read (or at least skim) the analyst document :)
- Jd 19y agotrue true. However, the bit about telepathy led me to think that it might be tongue and cheek. I don't care enough to go and check, but if you do... :P