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When "Likes" Trump "Everyday Low Prices": Facebook Is Now Bigger Than Walmart
Maybe WMT should start selling Confederate flags again...
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Nope - no bubble here.
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Full retard. But what I really want to know is, is Facebook selling cheaply sourced offshore likes, or are these Made in USA likes?
If these older ZH articles are right, then most clicks in the ENTIRE social media space are total fakery, generated by click farms and algos.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-13/walkthru-explaining-facebooks-m...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-06/its-click-farm-world-1-million-...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-25/mans-600000-facebook-disaster-w...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/high-speed-click-fraud-over-one...
Most are fake. It is used by people who produce no value to society by making bots to click likes for an article all the way to page 1 of google since google algo ranking bot loves social media. People spam their website with this crap and pop on google adsense so people can click the ads for a small revenue which is called CPC or cost per click. Yes the internet is super fucked up.
ph00k Fakebook and its NSA-friendly abusers. Buh Bitcoin!
https://btc-e.com
Revenue doesn't mean shit.
What matters is net profit.
Walmart nets $15-17 bn
Facebook nets $2.9bn
For Facebook to justify its market cap they need to grow their bottom line five fold. Tricky when they have already reached global saturation with their flagship.
Well now, fake clicks are a goldmine in advertising valuation! The Chinese even put melamine in theirs.
I had to migrate my company facebook account to a bussiness page and I lost 5000 friend in the process....
I HATE YOU FACEBOOK!!
MAY BERNANKE BE YOUR ACCOUNTANT AND OBAMA YOUR SALESMANAGER!!!!
I wouldn't call them friends if they couldn't be bothered to find your new page.
However, I lost one wife to somebody she met on facebook, but that relationship only lasted three weeks. I guess what goes around comes around.
Shit on me if you must, but Zuckerburg is the most profitable advertiser since William Randolph Hearst 100 years ago. Facebook may not last, but currently it is quite powerful.
But not necessarily the most effective. Who do you think uses facebook advertising anyway? Certainly not anyone selling anything tangible. Do you see Boeing selling airplanes on there? Shit no. The people who get the most use out of FB advertising are those who run websites dependant on ad venue. The xojane and BuzzFeed websites, with their click baity titles about "the 10 mostunbelievable nip-slips" or whatever. Its a cycle of trash. In fact its worse than trash, its completely vapid, hollow, nothingness.
I agree. But it is worldwide and nickels and dimes become billions of dollars. NBC is loaded with fancy multinational companies and it is a money losing pig. Comcast paid less just to take that bitch. The lure of Facebook is that it is truly worldwide and ubiquitous. You don't need to like it or use it, but you must admit that it is a profitable advertising platform.
"The lure of Facebook is that it is truly worldwide and ubiquitous. "
Among 40-50 year old soccer moms, sure.
I personally haven't been on there in two months.
"You don't need to like it or use it, but you must admit that it is a profitable advertising platform."
Citation needed.
The profitable business owners do not waste money on Facebook advertising. It's profitable all right...for Facebook. For now.
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DIAF asshole.
The difference is, one day Facebook will crash into nothing - guaranteed
On a long enough time line...
but yes. Walmart will outlast faceplant by decades.
Even if Walmart were to go bankrupt today, they still have tangible assets in real estate. What does Facebook have?
Not even just real estate, they have tons of inventory that is currently has recovery values well above their carrying values. They have an operating cycle of roughly 50 days, which is really good for such a massive retailer, and over $9 billion in cash on hand. What does Facebook have??????
Facebook has the tribes support.
You'd think that but as the NSA's interface to the public it will be propped up as long as the NSA can spy on everyone.
They don't even have to break the rules to do it. YOU allow it. Then they sell it to whoever wants/needs it for a price.
Public-private partnership.
Voila.
http://www.truthandaction.org/man-rants-police-state-facebook-guess-shows/
Only took 24 hours for the FBI to come and say hi.
(granted he looks like a putz, but still)
pods
Actually, he looks more like a Norman invader.
I am not sure if I should laugh or cry?
ALWAYS!
Visiting either one just disgusts me
Yeah, but you cant buy guns and ammo on Facefuck
What does Facebook mine from the earth or manufacture?
What happens when a company based entirely on internet views of advertisements loses advertisers becasue no one is buying anything, advertised or not?
Asking questions like that makes you a terrorist.
Being a straight, white, productive, gun owning, christian wasn't enough?
More than sufficient.
You're comped;)
you seem cool. We can be bunk buddies in FEMA Camp. I hope we are in the same region. Would be cool to have a friend. We can share one of those rubbermaid coffins we paid for.
Facebook mines DATA.. that is more important to the direction of this government and they will pay TOP DOLLAR for the information about you.
This little peon brain of mine cannot comprehend the market caps of corporations such as FB and Google and Amazon when you compare revenue, assets (brick/mortar/inventory) to Walmart or an Oil company or manufacturer.
The latter companies will always be worth something if they are not indebted to the eyeballs and that also affects share value.
Facebook could be gone in a few days and there would be no physical evidence except for a data center here or there.
Hell, a person would be better off playing slots (slowly) :)
Amazon does at least have Distribution Centers where they do house product (assets). Facebook and Google do not sell any physical goods.
Disgusting and appalling.
How fucking low can society sink.
Not justifying Facebook's valuation, but have you been to Walmart lately? Just saying.
True. However, what have you bought from Facebook lately?
I have not bought anything from FecesBook, nor do I have a page or account with them. Zuckerburglar can suck on a wild hogs dick and swallow.
He is a intellectual property thief and I do not knowingly do business with thieves.
walmart should have tanken on Amazon sooner, now they are pretty well fooked, (that is as long as no one realizes Amazon is loosing money) and will likely tansform into a grocery chain.
I have an idea and don't produce anything, give me a $500 Billion market cap now! /sarc.
Facebook is now straight up crowd-sourced populist propoganda interspersed with occasional updates on gym, tan laundry status and rescue dogs. It's a goldmine for the psyops folks. They'll never let it fail. Walmart on the other hand, they're a private-sector for-profit business that has no place in the planned communist utopia.
I disagree. There will always be a need for brick and morter place to spend your SNAP money.
Money will be obsolete. From each his ability, to each his need. Five year plans baby!
Good. Cannot wait. I was born in Soviet paradise and know very well how it functions.
I'll transition to a leach and let all the fucking Obama true believers become the productive units.
I will simply check out and watch the whole thing fall to shit like all the other communist lands of plenty.
The worst part of this fad are those companies who insist on referring you to fartbookface.com because they're too lazy to create their own dedicated website... Really gets my goat when an ad like that appears on TV. I don't WANT to visit faceplook.com! You hear me?
There are some employers who will not even consider you for employment if you do not have a FB page. Of course, do you want to work for an entity that would require such idiocy?
I haven't heard that one before.
I wouldn't work for an employer like that and I am sure I am not the only one.
They are just limiting their potential candidates.
True, the first place a young manager/interviewer will look is now FB or Google. Guess us 30 to 40 something's are ki d of bug***ed, especially when a bus spotter sharing the same name hits the top of the search list!
google buttbook.
mine is there
The truly amazing thing is that Faceplant lists over 10,000 employees. I wonder what 9900 of them do?
They click on ads all day.
Earning $7000 a month on their computers, of course!
Does this remain true? How can the progs demonize walmart, who pays massively into their fedzilla, while giving fb a pass? Didn't someone say that paying taxes was patriotic...or something?
<sarcasm>
Facebook is cool and hip millenial utopia. It exists in a magical place where everyone is equal and most don't have to do anything actually resembling work. Walmart generates profit and exploits workers. Everyone is unhappy and malcontent.
</sarcasm>
I clicked "Like" on the Facebook button at the bottom of this article.
Irony?
You just won the comments thread!
I have FecesBook blocked on all my computers.
It is a forbidden address in my NoScript settings.
It's better to point fecebook.com to devNull in hosts file, in case you're tempted.
Facebook is a screaming short.
I'm confused here about this stuff. What about GREECE?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-23/visual-timeline-economists-gree...
It's kinda ironic that advertisers whose job is to scam consumers into buying worthless crap have been scammed by facebook in the exact same way.
Facebook is not a company or investment.
It is a Psyopp. ..
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"Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan said Wednesday they would donate $5 million to give scholarships to 400 undocumented Bay Area students.
The money is being donated to TheDream.US, a group founded by former Washington Post publisher Donald Graham in 2013. Their mission is to help students born outside the U.S. pay for their education"
Today AMAZON.COM banned all Confederate flag merchandise.
And the GOP and the Demonrats are all scrambling to take them down.
FB & W-M you can have them both.
The attackers "APPEARED" to be black!!
Indianapolis Playground Beating: Girl and Her Little Brother Brutally Attacked in Park March 15, 2015
The Indianapolis playground beating may have been racially motivated. The victim and her brother were white and the attackers appeared to be black. As the victim was asking why she was being attacked, one of the boys in the group appeared to answer, “You white, bitch.”
Young Girl and Little Brother attacked
Video posted on facebook of brutal attack on a female and her little brother
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b10_1426395873
Duplicate post
How much is MySpace worth?
Merge the two... FaceMart or WallFace
"The reason why people can actually do so little with their free time is that the truncation of their imagination deprives them of the faculty which made the state of freedom pleasurable in the first place. People have been refused freedom, and its value belittled, for such a long time that now people no longer like it. They need the shallow entertainment, by means of which cultural conservatism patronizes and humiliates them, in order to summon up the strength for work, which is required of them under the arrangement of society which cultural conservatism defends. This is one good reason why people have remained chained to their work, and to a system which trains them for work, long after that system has ceased to require their labour."
- Adorno, The Culture Industry, 1944
Fuck those -1s. The secret zion agents in the room obviously don't want anyone to think too much.
Time to call my advisor....Ho Li Fuk...
I can't wait until the day when "Social Media Expert" goes the way of "Switchboard Operator"
Market Cap (Capitalization) is a Wall Street term that attempts to define the overall value of a company in very simplistic terms. So what is Market Cap, anyway?
Market Cap is calculated is by taking the share price on any given day and then multiplying it by the number of shares outstanding. So if a company has a share price of $55.00 and 100,000,000 shares outstanding then the Market Cap is $55.00 x 100,000,000 or 5.5 Billion dollars.
Now let’s take a look at this concept a bit more closely. Ask yourself what determines the price of an individual stock. Then ask yourself if similar stocks have similar prices. Does IBM have a similar price of say, Apple, or Cisco. The answer is no. There is no relationship between the prices of these stocks although each is in the High Tech or Computer business. As of 6/23/15 IBM’s price was $168.65, Apple’s was $127.03 and Cisco’s was $28.79 so it is clear that computer related companies stock price has no relationship to each other.
The other component of Market Cap is the number of shares outstanding. Again, ask yourself what determines the number of shares outstanding in a company. Using the examples above, as of 6/23/15 IBM had 984 Million shares outstanding, Apple had 5.76 Billion, and Cisco had 5.09 Billion shares outstanding. So you can see that there isn’t any relationship between the number of shares that are outstanding for these three high tech companies.
From a mathematical standpoint each parameter is a variable, that is the number of shares could be any amount, and the price per share could be any amount. So a variable times a variable equals a variable. It’s like saying A x B = C, and that’s OK. But then saying X x Y = Z and then comparing the values of C and Z as if they are somehow equivalent. Anybody that understands basic math would say this comparison is not valid. Yet on Wall Street it is considered valid and it is used every day to compare one company against another.
It’s also simplistic to assume that multiplying the number of shares times the price of each share determine the actual value of any company. If Wall Street had denominated Market Cap in Glibnicks, then fine. But they use the term Dollars. Now when you think of dollars, you think of real money in your pocket, the kind you can spend to buy things. And that’s what Wall Street want’s you to think about Market Cap. But it’s nonsense to try to value a company the size of IBM using such simplistic methodology.
It would be quite a feat to get your arms around the size of IBM. There are over 400,000 people that work for IBM. They do business in almost every country in the world. They have countless buildings, cars, hundreds of thousands of computers, from PC’s to Mainframes. They have hundreds of thousands of cash registers in thousands of retail stores. The pile of paper required to just list all of the assets IBM has would probably be 10 feet high, and it would take one of their mainframes to crunch all of it together. Yet Wall Street would have you believe that by taking the number of shares that are outstanding and multiplying it by the share price, you can get a fair representation of what IBM is worth. It’s inconceivable that anybody would buy into that notion.
Yet, there are hundreds of Mutual Funds that rely on this calculation to describe the components of Mutual Funds that they try to sell you. There are Large Cap funds, there are Small Cap funds, there are Mid Cap funds, well you get the idea. All of the “Cap” in these funds are calculated using this bogus arithmetic. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
Long term Facebook is toast.
Google not.
Google will probably be toast too; they're involved in too many things. Google cars, toilets, freezers and hedge trimmers? No single company or entity can manage ALL things...the government has tried numerous times and they always fail.