Facebook: reached 900 million users

Facebook announced that it crossed the threshold of 900 million users and that it purchases from Microsoft patents bought in recently from AOL

Facebook crossed the threshold of the 900 million active users (users who enter at least once a month), with 500 million users access to the site also (or only) through a portable device such as a tablet or mobile phone. These data update the company said its offering documents - Standard periodic process between the announcement of the offering and the offering itself.
Beyond that, Facebook servers today are raised about 300 million images per day (compared to 250 million images last December), it has 3.2 billion liked and responses every day, and there are a 42 million pages with ten liked and more.
The update also includes several financial data, including details of acquisition of images Ainstgrm social network. Facebook paid on Ainstgrm 300 million dollars in cash, and 23 million shares. And the company was not difficult to obtain that amount - in the fourth quarter blew Facebook 1.058 billion, a growth of 44 percent the prior year quarter.


774 U.S. patents


Patent of the deal going through Facebook
Meanwhile, Facebook announced that it has acquired 650 patents related to social networks from Microsoft at $ 550 million. This is part of -925 Microsoft patents it acquired from AOL two weeks ago at a billion dollars. The rest of the patents Microsoft is unwilling to sell, but part of the deal Facebook will license to use them for her purposes.
So, Facebook has now 774 U.S. patents and patent applications for another 546. These serve the same patent wars which is in the technology industry. Facebook already manages a legal battle with Yahoo, which opened shortly after the initial filing of the offering documents of the social network. Yahoo has done something similar before Google's IPO, which preferred not to endanger the public offering price value and compromise. Facebook, however, argues that it is prepared to defend itself against the charges.
War flared in recent years in the United States Patent, when a large company is forced to fight a multitude of lawsuits, and giant such as Microsoft, Google and Apple (SITES) constantly engaged in building a large portfolio of patents to protect themselves and other attack if necessary. The leading cause of these wars are patents on software applications, often so wide and can be easily generalized to any claim by which Internet company or computing company.