Facebook for the year earned $ 700 million

Social networking site Facebook in 2009, earned 700 million dollars, writes the blog Inside Facebook, citing its own sources, data and calculations.Officially, the financial performance of the network is not known, since Facebook is a private, not public company.The administration of the social network announced on break-even only in September last year. According to Inside Facebook, in 2010, Facebook managers expect to gain from the billion to $ 1.1 billion.By July 2009, Facebook has earned $ 550 million. Of these, 125 million was invested in advertising brands, 150 - an advertising network of Microsoft, 75 million - for virtual goods and 200 million - to the usual advertising.For comparison, in 2008, revenues amounted to Facebook from 280 to 300 million dollars, and in 2007 - $ 150 million. Thus, in 2009, revenues grew at least twice, and in 2010 we should expect more pyatidesyatiprotsentnogo revenue.Facebook - the largest social network in the world, uniting more than 400 million people. If the calculations and information Inside Facebook is correct, then each user on average, bringing the network up to two dollars of revenue a year.