Facebook , operator of the world’s largest social-network,
declined after a report from Capstone Investments said the number of users fell
over the past six months. The shares of Menlo Park, California-based Facebook
decreased 0.6 percent to $28.09 at the close in New York, adding to a 8.1
percent slide yesterday. Shares of Zynga Inc., which gets most of its
revenue from games played on Facebook, dropped 5.2 percent to $4.58.
U.S. users decreased 1.1 percent over the past six months,
Rory Maher, an analyst at Capstone, said in a report today. Of 23 countries
where Facebook had at least 50 percent market penetration, growth was little
changed or down in 14 nations over the past three months, he said.
“This could be an issue for Facebook growth since we
estimate that outside of Southeast Asia and some countries in Latin America,
most markets are approaching 50 percent penetration,” Maher said in the report….
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-17/facebook-falls-on-report-of-user-decline-san-francisco-mover.html
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