Facebook on Track for $2B Revenue in 2010 [REPORT]

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If these reports are accurate, Facebook's annual revenue would have more than doubled since last year, when the company made around $800 million.

While astronomical compared to most startups' revenues, these figures are hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with Facebook's advertising and virtual currency advances in the past 12 months.

The company now competes with Google for online ad dollars from major brands as well as small businesses that need targeted marketing with high ROI. In fact, Facebook serves around 50 billion display ads per month and is on track to serve 1 trillion display ads for all of 2010.

And when it comes to revenue from virtual currency -- revenue that comes, in a roundabout way, directly from Facebook users themselves -- Facebook is seeing more cash all the time. The blockbuster success of casual games from studios such as Zynga add up to more coin in Facebook's coffers when users pay with Facebook Credits; for every dollar the user spends on Facebook Credits, the social network gets 30 cents.

Virtual currencies aside, the lion's share of Facebook's revenue still comes from advertising and marketing -- a game that Facebook is really just beginning to play well.