Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday. January 31st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook returns to growth.

iPhones might be getting USBC and 3D cameras.

Hulu's launching PAWS ads.

And on Reddit, it's paintings of paintings of birds all the way down.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

It's that time of the quarter when tech earnings are coming at us fast and furious and

this first one was one that I was super interested in seeing.

Facebook reported Q4 net income of 6.9 billion dollars up 61% year over year and

revenue of 16.9 billion dollars up 30% year over year.

But of course the devil is in the Mao and Dow details right? Well guess what? They're growing again.

Facebook reported daily active users of 1.52 billion up 9% year over year.

Mals were up to 2.3 billion, as of December 31st,

an increase of 9% year over year.

But here's the headline number.

Facebook managed to grow daily active users in both North America and Europe once again.

That's noteworthy because both of those markets had seen growth plateau

and people were wondering if it was even possible to grow in those

markets anymore. It's also crucial because it's in those markets that Facebook

makes most of its money. Revenue per North American user grew 30% year over Money Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger, what they call their family of services each month,

and more than 2 billion people use at least one of those family of services every day on average.

As Shiro Oviday tweeted,

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