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Update: Facebook Earnings Beat Estimates Amid Data Privacy Scandal
The site's revenue rose to $11.97 billion and active monthly users topped 2.2 billion.
The site's revenue rose to $11.97 billion and active monthly users topped 2.2 billion. We ask Russell Brandom, senior reporter at The Verge, why Facebook doesn't appear to have suffered from the data privacy scandal. We get a markets update from Doug McIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street. Also in the programme, the two rival aircraft-makers, the French firm Dassault and Airbus, have announced that they're joining forces to design and build a new generation of jet fighters. Our business correspondent, Theo Leggett, explains what this means.
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