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🗓️ 23 April 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Facebook’s user base rises, but so does its spending. eBay’s stock rises as Wall Street waits for the PayPal spin-off. And Google launches a wireless service just because it can. Plus, listeners weigh in with corporate logo tattoos.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, April 23rd.

0:03.0

Welcome to Market to Market.

0:04.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Funds, Tony Arstah, and Bill Barker.

0:08.0

Happy Thursday, gentlemen.

0:10.0

Thank you, Chris.

0:12.0

This is one of those days where news-wise,

0:15.5

we could probably go for about an hour or so.

0:18.1

We're not going to do that, though.

0:19.1

We're not going to inflict that kind of damage.

0:21.0

We're not going to inflict dozens of listeners. We're not going

0:23.2

through 3M's quarter as big and as companies that is and as widely held it as is.

0:28.1

How about P&G? Proctor and Gamble. How about Pepsi? How about Caterpillar in North America getting it done? We're not actually

0:35.7

talking about any of those. We are going to talk about Google, eBay. We will get to the full mailbag because holy cow did the mail start rolling in on the

0:45.9

topic of corporate logo tattoos but let's start with Facebook.

0:50.1

Slowest revenue growth in two years and yet I don't know it seems like if that's

1:02.0

what you're pointing to Tony as a problem for this company, it seems like pretty weak sauce.

1:10.0

They now have over 1.4 billion monthly active users.

1:15.0

Facebook as a country is now the biggest country in the world.

1:18.0

You looked at the quarter. What did you make of it?

1:20.0

Yeah, the thing about Facebook, they give so many numbers you can find

1:23.4

wait can we back up in what sense is it the biggest country in the world population

1:28.6

wise what's its population I think it's like one point it's it's like 1.5 billion.

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