Facebook and Drones Means Billions in New Revenue for Facebook Inc.

Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) generated a massive $8.2 billion in worldwide revenue from Facebook users in Q1 2017, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an ingenious plan to make billions more. Zuckerberg's plan is to use Facebook and drones to expand Internet access across the world...

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By connecting more people to the Internet, Facebook can add billions of users to its social network.

Here's how Facebook's ambitious plan could bring in billions in new revenue for the company, plus how you can profit from the new technology that could make it happen...

Through Facebook and Drones, Zuckerberg Will Make Billions

In an August 2013 Facebook post, Zuckerberg said he was on a mission to "connect the world." At the time, Facebook had more than 1 billion users. He did not provide a timeline, but his goal was to connect another 5 billion people to the social network.

To reach his goal, he began testing solar-powered drones that transmit Internet signals in the Arizona desert in May 2017, according to USA Today.

Facebook has only made two test flights so far, so we don't have an exact date on when these drones will be ready to provide Internet access across the globe.

But we do have an idea of the massive amount of revenue it could generate for Facebook...

There were 240 million registered FB users in the United States as of July 2017, according to Statista. With a population of 323.1 million, almost 75% of the entire U.S. has a Facebook account.

In comparison, India had 241 million registered Facebook users as of July 2017, but the country has a total population of 1.3 billion people. That means just 18.53% of the country is connected to Facebook.

But LiveMint.com projects there are still 750 million people in rural India without Internet access.

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If Zuckerberg can connect 75% of the Indian population to the Internet and turn them into Facebook users, 975 million people in India would be registered to the social network. With an average revenue per worldwide user of $4.23, that's $4.1 billion in new revenue.

And that's just from India.

As massive as Facebook's reach is in the United States, it's still only used by 22.9% of the world's population, according to Statista. As you can see in the accompanying chart, which shows countries with the most Facebook users, there are still plenty of new users that can be added.

As Money Morning readers know, we are very bullish on Facebook stock because of profit-growing strategies like this.

Increasing revenue through new users is just one of the reasons we project the Facebook stock price will climb 50.59% to $250 per share by 2020. In this exclusive Money Morning video, we share three more reasons why the Facebook stock price will skyrocket.

But Facebook's ambitious plan to spread Internet access across the world is also going to be a boon to the already growing drone market.

Sources are saying there could be $127 billion in new wealth being created in the drone market as we speak.

And this is beyond anything Money Morning Executive Editor Bill Patalon could have imagined...

Financial Guru Bill Patalon Just Uncovered Your Next Profit Opportunity

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Before Patalon moved into the investment research business in December 2005, he spent 22 years as a journalist, most of it covering financial news as a reporter, columnist, and editor that included stints with Gannett Co. Inc. and The Baltimore Sun.

He has covered finance and investing, economics, manufacturing, the defense sector, biotechnology, and telecommunications. The companies he's covered include Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Harley-Davidson, Caterpillar, Westinghouse Electric, Verizon, MedImmune, and Black & Decker.

His most memorable interviews include former President Richard M. Nixon, General Electric CEO John F. "Jack" Welch, Forbes magazine publisher and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, and business-turnaround specialist and helicopter-industry pioneer Stanley Hiller, Jr.

It was Patalon's work covering Eastman Kodak Co. during the latter half of the 1990s that solidified his reputation as one of the nation's top analytical business journalists. With his award-winning reports on Kodak's competitive travails, he consistently scooped his competitors in the national business media. His chronicles of Kodak's turnaround efforts took him to China, Japan, Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., and even Hollywood.

Along the way, he earned the esteem of heavyweights like Anthony Gallea, senior portfolio management director at Morgan Stanley, who collaborated on Patalon's 1999 ground-breaking book, "Contrarian Investing."

Patalon's ideas so impressed Jim Rogers that the hedge fund genius eagerly wrote a glowing six-page introduction to the book.

A winner of approximately two-dozen journalism awards - including top honors from the Associated Press and the prestigious Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) - he has had his work featured in Kiplinger's personal finance magazine, USA Today, and The South China Morning Post, among other publications.

Before taking over Money Morning, he served as the editor of The Rebound Report, an investment newsletter focused on turnaround stocks.

Patalon has a B.A. in Print Journalism from Penn State University and an MBA in finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Yes, he's uncovered a lot of investment stories. And he's even been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.

But he's never seen a story as potentially lucrative as this one...

The Next $127 Billion Profit Opportunity

In the barren, hostile plains of the New Mexico desert, not far from the Mexican border, they're building a city like no other.

A city with high rises, avenues, parks, a big-box store, churches, and gas stations for a population of 35,000 at a ground-up cost exceeding $1 billion...

Made to look like so many other cities in America, except for one thing: people. There are none. It's a ghost town and it always will be.

Here's what Patalon learned about this ghost town and what he believes is really going on.

Its location in New Mexico is the first key: The state scoops up tons of government research dollars straight from Washington.

And indeed, located in hardened shelters far beneath this empty city will be teams of top-secret scientists and federal contractors hard at work...

Driven by what they call "mother's milk" - the hopes of seeing billions of dollars in government funding coming their way. Plus many billions more in new wealth that they hope to create.

Patalon has identified the main group of scientists and researchers behind this project.

They are quite clearly inventing a big future with new technologies that stretch the imagination - new technologies that are about to be everywhere.

They call their ghost town "Project CITE."

It's the brainchild of the government contractor Marble Arch.

And when you learn how tight Marble Arch is with the Pentagon and how many massive government contracts Marble Arch has scooped up over the years, you know something big is happening here.

Big as in "$127 billion in new wealth for early investors" big, Patalon's findings suggest.

Marble Arch is run by Bob Brumley, who was President Reagan's point man for privatizing commercial space transportation. He's definitely a big thinker - like an Elon Musk with a direct line to government funding!

And this new venture of his is every bit as ambitious as space travel, with even bigger impact, because it's going to happen right before our eyes.

Now, as we mentioned, the specific details of this venture are not public. But after Patalon's investigation, he's incredibly confident it will involve the next big thing in tech, security, and investing.

He's talking about unmanned flying machines.

Yes, drones.

But not the drones you're probably thinking of. Not the kind the military uses to hunt down and kill enemy terrorists. Not any kind you've ever heard of before.

These are what Patalon calls "AI Drones" - a brand-new breed of amazingly intelligent and super-capable drones unlike anything ever witnessed, using artificial intelligence to accomplish more benefits for people, businesses, and human civilization than you could have ever imagined possible.

But there's another reason why these new drones will soon be everywhere.

I'm talking about a big event that just happened...

An event that's blowing the lid off the drone market not two years from now... not a year from now... not even six months from now...

IMMEDIATELY.

It's happening as we speak.

And Patalon has uncovered one tiny company sitting at the center of it all. You may never have a better shot at getting in on the ground floor of such a massive new market.

By getting in early, you could profit from the potential 4,636% gain that Patalon's projecting. A gain like this would be the equivalent of turning...

Every $50 you invest into $2,318...

Every $2,500 into $115,900...

And a $10,000 stake becomes $463,600.

As you know, these kind of quadruple-digit returns are exceptional and don't happen every day. But think about it - even a fraction of these gains could make you a fortune.

Plus, this kind of spike makes perfect sense when you think about it. This is investing in the next frontier in aviation - the next great leap forward.

Patalon sees dollar signs, pure and simple, which is why he put a briefing together for you, and this investment recommendation, as well...

Now, because this is a small stock, there will be volatility. So he'll also recommend a tight buying strategy. The last thing any investor wants to do is blindly chase a small stock upward with no plan in mind. And, as always, never investing more than one can afford to lose is good advice.

Here's everything you need to know about how you could pocket $115,900 from the next frontier in flight.

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