Facebook’s IPO filing, by a numbers
Facebook’s IPO filing on Wednesday offers investors, bankers, analysts, reporters and anyone peaceful to review a large S-1 request a deeper demeanour during a business and financial side of a world’s largest amicable network than we’ve ever had before.
Our group of tech and business reporters has been digging into a filing, stating on a Menlo Park, Calif., company’s $3.7-billion revenue, rivalries with Twitter and Google+, viewpoint on China, amicable idea and hacker ethos, Zynga accounting for 12% of Facebook’s revenue, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s compensate cut from $600,000 in 2012 to $1 in 2013 and even what a IPO could meant for a Winklevoss twins.
But that wasn’t all a S-1 had to say. Here are some other highlights from Facebook’s IPO filing before a association indeed goes open in May:
Users: Facebook has an normal of 845 million monthly active users, 483 million of whom record into a amicable network daily.
Workforce: At a finish of 2011, Facebook had 3,200 full-time employees, adult 50% from 2,127 employees 2010. In 2009, a association had 1,218 employees.
Worldwide: Facebook’s plan, unsurprisingly, is to continue to grow by gaining some-more users in countries around a world. But a association also pronounced in a S-1 that it skeleton to grow a workforce worldwide as well. “We devise to continue a general enlargement of a business operations and a interpretation of a products,” Facebook said. Currently, Facebook is offering in some-more than 70 opposite languages, and a association has information centers in some-more than 20 opposite countries.
Popularity: Facebook pronounced that about 60% of a online race in a U.S. and U.K. is purebred on a amicable network. But Facebook is some-more renouned in Chile, Turkey and Venezuela, where a association has “penetration rates of larger than 80% of Internet users.”
There are some-more than 2 billion Internet users worldwide and Facebook pronounced a idea is to bond all of them by a amicable network.
“In countries such as Brazil, Germany, and India we guess that we have invasion rates of approximately 20-30%; in countries such as Japan, Russia, and South Korea we guess that we have invasion rates of reduction than 15%; and in China, where Facebook opening is restricted, we have nearby 0% penetration,” a filing said.
Money in a bank: Facebook pronounced that it had $1.5 billion during a ordering in a brew of “cash and money equivalents” as of Dec. 31, as good as $2.3 billion in “marketable securities.” In 2010, Facebook had $1.7 billion in money and money equivalents and no commercial securities. Total resources on palm amounted to $6.6 billion in 2011, while Facebook had a sum of $1.4 billion in liabilities.
RD: Facebook’s investigate and expansion efforts have seen large expansion over a final few years. In 2011, a association spent $388 million, or about 10.5% of a revenue, on RD. In 2010, Facebook spent reduction than half that amount, with $144 million going toward RD. In 2009, a association spend $87 million on RD, adult from $47 million in 2008 and $81 million in 2007.
Patents: Faceook pronounced a vital cause in either or not a association will be means to say a outrageous success it’s had so distant will float on a ability to “protect a core record and egghead property.”
To do that, Facebook will “rely on a multiple of patents, obvious applications, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, including know-how, permit agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements with third parties, worker avowal and invention assignment agreements, and other contractual rights.” The amicable media hulk finished 2011 with 56 patents and 503 obvious applications filed in a U.S., along with 33 analogous patents and 149 obvious applications filed in unfamiliar countries.
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Photo: Visitors poise in front of a pointer during a opening of Facebook’s new domicile in Menlo Park, Calif., on Wednesday. Credit: Kimihiro Hoshino / AFP/Getty Images
