{"id":988479,"date":"2026-01-29T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988479"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:19:44","slug":"meta-posts-stronger-than-expected-q4-results-though-costs-continue-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/meta-posts-stronger-than-expected-q4-results-though-costs-continue-to-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta posts stronger-than-expected Q4 results though costs continue to soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street&#8217;s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares sharply higher in after-hours trading Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The company earned $22.77 billion, or $8.88 per share, in the October-December quarter. That&#8217;s up 9% from $20.84 billion, or $8.02 per share, in the same period a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Revenue grew 24% to $59.89 billion from $48.39 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street&#8217;s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares sharply higher in after-hours trading Wednesday. The company earned $22.77 billion, or $8.88 per share, in the October-December quarter. That&#8217;s up 9% from $20.84 billion, or $8.02 per share, in the same period a year earlier. Revenue grew 24% to $59.89 billion from $48.39 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}