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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.

First quarter profit of Citigroup Inc dropped by 32% under pressure of decreasing loans and poor trading results.

While the third largest US bank has managed to avoid collapse in the financial crisis and stabilized it is still struggling to stay afloat.

The results were better than expected, which supported Citigroup's stock on a day when the U.S. equity market was falling. But like other big banks, the company's profit came mainly from dipping into money previously set aside to cover bad loans.

In 2010 the social networking giant Facebook will likely generate near $2 billion revenue which is more than earlier made forecast, according to the Bloomberg reports.

In 2009 Facebook reported revenue of around $800 million.

Previously 2010 revenue was forecast to be closer to $1.5 billion, which still would have been nearly double 2009 sales. It now appears Facebook will reach $2 billion in sales faster than Yahoo Inc and at almost the same pace as Google Inc, the Bloomberg report said.
 

Apple reported record revenue and profits for its fiscal fourth quarter this week boosted by the strong sales of Macs, iPhones and iPads. The company Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer called the quarter a "great fiscal quarter” as it brought a profit of $4.31 billion, compared to $2.53 billion for the same period last year. The report shows that for the quarter ended Sept. 25, Apple recorded $20.34 billion in revenue, an increase of nearly 67% from the year-ago quarter's sales figure of $12.21 billion.

China’s most popular online search engine, predicts sales increase that even exceeds analysts’ estimations. Baidu is positive in its forecasts as Google lost market share amid a censorship dispute with Chinese regulators.

Latest figures revealed that Apple overtook Microsoft as the worlds largest tech company based on market value. On Wednesday Apple emerged ahead with a market value of about $222 billion, compared with Microsoft's $219 billion.

Apple shares closed down 0.4 percent at $244.11 on Nasdaq, while Microsoft fell 4 percent to a seven-month low of $25.01.

According to a new report from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers the Internet advertising industry in the United States show signs of recovery with revenues having reached a record quarterly high of $6.3 billion in Q4 of 2009. The figure is a 2.6% increase against the previous year and a 14% increase over the previous quarter.

Most of the advertising spend comes to search and display advertising. 47% of the revenues came from search advertising which is about a record quarterly high of $6.3 billion

Starting Fiscal Year 2011 Google will be integrating its operations with the Internal Revenue Service, reports the PCWorld magazine.

Eventually customers will be able to both manage their finances right within Google Docs and to submit their taxes via a choice on the File menu, “Submit taxes now.” Later, customers won’t need to perform any action themselves as long as Google will have all the necessary information.

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, provided its financial data reporting the increase of its fourth-quarter profit to $3.3 billion from $702 million a year earlier, which was helped by strong results from its investment bank unit.

The bank reported that a quarterly profit was 74 cents a share, compared with 6 cents a year ago. Analysts on average expected 61 cents a share. The revenue posted by the bank was $25.2 billion.
 

Facebook recently has posted job listings for the position of “Strategist, Payment Operations” which means the company is creating a new payments team:

Google has been blamed for diverging UK tax on the £1.6bn it makes in Britain.

Google pays some tax, that is about £140,000 on interest on cash in the bank held here. But its offshore status means it, quite legally, avoids paying £450m in corporation tax.

Dell has supposedly achieved appreciation of Twitter and social media in general. Tuesday, a representative unveiled some statistics relative to the company’s achievements, and by most standards, they're extremely impressive.

According to Dell’s announcement late in June, its presence on Twitter had generated $3 million in sales.

According to Beijing-based research company Analysys International, China’s rapidly growing Internet penetration causes online gaming industry revenues considerable increase. Thus, the revenues are expected to hit 73.1 billion yuan ($10.7 billion) in the following three years.

 Current China's Internet penetration is around 27% according to the latest government data, compared to over 70% in country’s developed Asian neighbors South Korea and Japan.

 According to the report of research firm Strategy Analytics in the third quarter of the current year Apple overtook Nokia in the mobile phone sales generating the highest total operating profit in the industry.

 Being a good example of democratic and rightful society America has still retained many prejudices. In particular this is much evident when it comes to women’s role in the economical and political live of the nation. Forbes magazine published a post where it cited some most paid female CEOs in the US with a clause that says women are still less compensated on these positions than their male peers.