GLOBAL PLAYER: The report looks at the businesses that maintain pages on Facebook as well as the mobile apps and games that consumers play on Facebook and measures all the economic activity that result.
SAN FRANCISCO: With 1.35 billion users of its Internet social network, Facebook Inc would rank as the world’s second-most populous nation if it were a country.
While its users may populate only a virtual country, Facebook says it generates a lot of real economic activity — US$227bil (RM820.26bil) worth of economic impact and 4.5 million jobs in 2014, according to a new study by consulting firm Deloitte & Touche that Facebook commissioned.
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