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Facebook Rises as China Users Skirt Ban: San Francisco Mover

Facebook Inc. shares advanced after researcher GlobalWebIndex said the social-networking site has seen an eightfold increase in users in China since that nation restricted access to the service in 2009.

Facebook users in China, the world’s largest Internet market, were 63.5 million in the second quarter of this year, from 7.9 million in 2009, London-based researcher GlobalWebIndex said in a blog post yesterday.