Facebook: The Mobile Network
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🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Facebook’s mobile ad revenue continues to dominate. Analyst Simon Erickson shares why he believes Facebook’s increased spending in 2017 is a good thing for long-term shareholders. Plus we discuss the latest with The New York Times, InvenSense, updated information on the “bacon shortage” and the looming groundhog civil war in Pennsylvania.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 2nd. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today |
| 0:06.4 | from Motley Fool Explorer, Simon Ericsson. |
| 0:09.2 | Happy Groundhog Day. |
| 0:10.2 | Happy Groundhog Day to you as well, Chris. Six more weeks. Six more, yes, Punctitana. day. There are a lot of Groundhucks out there. Punctsatani Phil immortalized in the classic Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day, saw his shadow |
| 0:28.2 | six more weeks of winter, although as we were just talking about right before we started taping, |
| 0:32.0 | here in the D in the DC area, |
| 0:34.0 | winter hasn't even really started. I can handle this, right? It's been incredibly mild, |
| 0:38.0 | unlike the Midwest, which has just gotten hammered. We're going to talk about Facebook's earnings and we're going to get |
| 0:45.8 | into a couple of other news stories. But just sticking with the Groundhog, do you think? |
| 0:50.2 | We talked about it on yesterday's episode and listeners just flooding us with emails and |
| 0:55.8 | tweets. |
| 0:56.8 | Nathaniel, one of our listeners, actually made the pilgrimage to Punctetani and was tweeting out photos. Another listener posted on our Facebook |
| 1:06.2 | page which anyone can join. If you're on the Facebook just go to Motley Full |
| 1:10.4 | Podcast. Posted a sort of the business angle, which is hotels. |
| 1:17.0 | Hotel rates in Punctetani get jacked up. |
| 1:19.8 | $450 a night, whoa, last night to stay at a hotel in Puxetani. |
| 1:25.0 | Compare that to the Super Bowl this weekend, about $100 less in Houston to get a hotel |
| 1:31.0 | room. |
| 1:32.0 | And here's, I think this is my favorite, favorite comment from a listener. |
| 1:37.0 | From State Representative Brian Cutler, who is a state rep in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
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