Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by panabee on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:24PM (#19040231)

thanks for this and other breakdowns. what was the primary driver for operating costs rising so much?

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by porpoisely on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:00PM (#19041607)

I'm guessing most of increase are the "moderators/censors" the media and political groups pressured them to hire. The same thing happened with google a couple of years ago when they were forced to hire thousands of people to moderate/censor content.

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by echevil on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:49PM (#19040450)

They probably need higher compensation to attract engineers at this point and their existing engineers are probably leaving the company at higher rate. They also need to hire a lot more people to tackle whatever issues they are trying to solve

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by pianom4n on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:54PM (#19041252)

building lots of datacenters

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Re:Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite... by dawhizkid on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:36PM (#19040338)

probably headcount

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