FB apps create up to 2.3 lakh jobs; $15 bn in pay

September 20, 2011 18:18

While on Facebook, according to the study by the University of Maryland's
Robert H Smith School of Business, the proliferation of various Facebook-related applications could have created more than two lakh jobs this year alone in the US with salaries totalling more than USD 15 billion.

Facebook applications have created up to 235,644 new jobs and contributed an estimated up to USD 15.71 billion in wages and other benefits to the US economy, it said.

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