Facebook’s three-step plan to take over the rest of the world

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Facebook has its eyes set on global domination, and it’s quickly executing on its plan to get there.

Earlier this week, the company rolled out a new kind of ad format meant to bring a video experience to low-bandwidth emerging markets.

Throughout the launch event, the main refrain was how Facebook plans to “connect the next billion.”

Right now, the main Facebook app has nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users. Instagram, its photo sharing app, has 300 million, while Messenger and WhatsApp, its chat apps, have 700 million and 900 million, respectively.

That’s a huge swath of the word’s population, but Facebook says that it’s just the beginning.

Right now, about 3 billion people have access to the Internet, but 3 billion more are set to come online in the next five years, primarily from emerging markets like India and Africa… see more

source: businessinsider

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