2017.2.16

a blank slate新的開始

At $3.6bn, Facebook’s fourth-quarter profit was more than twice that of the year before, though an accounting-rule change was responsible for almost $1bn of that. It lost a $500m lawsuit brought by ZeniMax,which accused Facebook’s Oculus of stealing virtual-reality technology. Apple again became the world’s biggest smartphone seller, announcing record quarterly revenue of $78bn and sales of over 78m phones.

WORDS

Accounting-rule：會計準則

Lawsuit：官司

Virtual reality: 虛擬現實

臉書第四季的利潤為36億美元，是以前同期的兩倍，盡管這其中有10億是由于會計準則的改變所致，ZeniMax指責臉書的Oculus偷竊其虛擬現實技術 并提起上訴要求索賠，這使臉書公司損失了5億美元。蘋果又一次成為世界上最大的智能手機銷售商，季度財務報告顯示：780億美元的收入，賣出超過了7800萬部手機。