The number of local business pages advertising on Facebook has nearly doubled since January, and the total number of active local pages is up by more than 40 percent over the same time period, Director of Global SMB Markets Dan Levy said at BIA/Kelsey’s Interactive Local Media West conference in Los Angeles Thursday.
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Leading up to Facebook’s first-ever earnings call as a publicly traded company, which will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, the social network, through outside public-relations firm Brunswick Group, is trying to de-emphasize its actual financial results and focus on its accomplishments since going public May 18.
