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According to the stats from a recent research Facebook’s US advertising revenue will reach $2.2 billion in 2011 displacing Yahoo Inc.

eMarketer’s report shows that Facebook's U.S. advertising revenue will give it a 17.7 percent share of the market for graphical display ads that appear on websites.

Last year Facebook had 12.2 percent share of the U.S. market.

According to the latest report from eMarketer, online retailers tend to be some of the biggest beneficiaries of social network users who friend or follow corporate pages.

Online retail sales will return to growth in 2010 and to double-digit growth by 2011, eMarketer Inc. predicts. The eMarketer forecast calls for an increase in e-retail sales to over $189 billion by 2013, which would represent a 9.56% compound annual growth rate from 2009 to 2013.
The firm forecasts U.S. e-retail sales this year will total $131.4 billion, down about 0.7% from $132.3 billion last year, but will grow 7.5% next year to $141.3 billion. The firm projects growth rates of 11.5% in 2011 and 10.0% in 2012, before slipping back to 9.2% in 2013 as e-commerce matures.

According to the recent survey conducted by Nielsen Online more than three-quarters of US online adults made a purchase on the Internet in the previous six months. Nearly 4 out of 10 online buyers had made a travel purchase during the past six months, and more than one-third had managed their credit card or banking accounts online.