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Facebook looks for $5B in IPO
Facebook is updating its status from a private to public company. Documents filed Wednesday say Facebook hopes to raise $5 billion in its Inital Public Offering of stock.
Posted — UpdatedFacebook is updating its status from a private to public company. The shift is occurring as the Internet social
network filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering of stock.
The documents filed Wednesday say Facebook hopes to raise $5 billion in its IPO. That would be the most for an Internet IPO since Google and its early backers raised $1.9 billion in 2004.
The final amount is likely to change during the next three to four months as Facebook's bankers gauge investor demand.
The IPO marks another major milestone for a Harvard-born startup that began as an online college hangout eight years ago. Since then, it has become a cultural touchstone that has transformed the way everyone from doting grandmas to sassy teenagers share
information about their lives.
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