Well on the way to 2 billion friends facebook gets more popular, more profitable and more powerful than ever before. Plus, driving a brexit bargain why britains the place to snap up a cut price supercar. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme a rare bit of good news for mexicos car industry but first. We start with facebook because despite predictions of a slowdown, the worlds Biggest Social Network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. Late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. They round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on earth. Its massive reach has also of course raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have and the reliability of information thats shared on it. So lets give you an idea of how big facebook now is. By the end of last year, over 1. 86 billion people Around The World were logging on at leas
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