Facebook apparently earned as much as $800 million in 2009

Facebook apparently earned as much as $800 million in 2009, according to unnamed sources quoted by Reuters. That would be a sizable increase over the $500 million estimated by entrepreneur and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen in 2009. While Facebook’s user base has increased over the past year, so too have concerns about its privacy policy and how it shares users’ information with third-party companies. Facebook has responded to privacy advocates’ concerns by insisting that user privacy is a prime concern.

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