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Violation of existing or future regulatory orders or consent decrees could subject us to substantial monetary fines
and other penalties that could negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations.
Various laws and regulations in the United States and abroad, such as the Bank Secrecy Act, the Dodd-
Frank Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Credit CARD Act, impose certain anti-money laundering
requirements on companies that are financial institutions or that provide financial products and services. Under
these laws and regulations, financial institutions are broadly defined to include money services businesses such
as money transmitters, check cashers, and sellers or issuers of stored value. Requirements imposed on financial
institutions under these laws include customer identification and verification programs, record retention policies
and procedures, and transaction reporting. To increase flexibility in how our use of Payments may evolve and to
mitigate regulatory uncertainty, we have applied through subsidiaries for certain money transmitter licenses in
the United States and similar licenses in certain foreign countries, which will generally require us to show
compliance with many domestic and foreign laws relating to money transmission, gift cards and other prepaid
access instruments, electronic funds transfers, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, gambling,
banking and lending, and import and export restrictions.
Employees
As of December 31, 2012, we had 4,619 employees.
Corporate Information
We were incorporated in Delaware in July 2004. We completed our initial public offering in May 2012 and
our Class A common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “FB.” Our principal
executive offices are located at 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, and our telephone number is
[phone].
Facebook, the Facebook logo, FB, the Like Button, Instagram and our other registered or common law
trademarks, service marks, or trade names appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of
Facebook, Inc. or its affiliates. Other trademarks, service marks, or trade names appearing in this Annual Report
on Form 10-K are the property of their respective owners.
Information about Segment and Geographic Revenue
Information about segment and geographic revenue is set forth in Notes 1 and 14 of our Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of
this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Available Information
Our website address is www.facebook.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), are filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act and file or
furnish reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC. Such reports and other information filed
by the Company with the SEC are available free of charge on our website at investor.fb.com when such reports
are available on the SEC’s website. We use our investor.fb.com website as a means of disclosing material non-
public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly,
investors should monitor such portions of investor.fb.com, in addition to following press releases, SEC filings
and public conference calls and webcasts.
The public may read and copy any materials filed by Facebook with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference
Room at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the
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