Facebook files for IPO

USA Today, 1 Feb 2012
Facebook today filed to go public in a bid to raise $5 billion with a mammoth stock offering.
A Facebook valuation of roughly $100 billion would rank the company just below McDonald's, which is currently 25th, at $101.5 billion, says Howard Silverblatt at Standard & Poor's. Full story

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