Facebook IPO may be social networking bellwether


So Facebook is set to go public today. It's the most anticipated initial public offering since Google in 2004, and may net the Menlo Park, Calif. social network between $5 billion and $10 billion, according to estimates. That said

Mr. Kutcher really wants to know what's what this fine IPO-awaiting morning.

By Rebecca J. Rosen Sometime later today, Facebook is expected to raise several billion dollars in a public stock offering that would value the company at somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion. And while those numbers raise eyebrows for being

That said, if you bought Google at the IPO and held, you would have yielded 40%. Could Facebook fall under the same fate of being a company with great potential but ending up not being as dominant 5 or 10 years down the line because their best and

It's widely reported that Facebook is going to file for an IPO today, and likely that the offering will be in the $5 billion range. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook