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Facebook has taken the first step towards a stock market debut, filing papers for a $5bn initial public offering that reveal financial details of its social media advertising business for the first time
Facebook’s first employees to share $23bn
Given the scale of the company’s success, almost everything about the impending Facebook stock market listing is couched in superlatives
Facebook in line for $5bn tax bill
The second big share sale is a byproduct of the huge profits that employees stand to make after the social networking company goes public
Facebook Timeline ads plan raises fresh privacy fears
The company will repackage what people ‘listen’ to, ’watch’, and ’read’ into ads and deliver them to their friends
Pension fund urges female director for Facebook
California State Teachers’ Retirement System also wants the group to increase the size of its board and to split the role of chairman and chief executive
Facebook to tap mobiles ads
Launch of ‘sponsored stories’ ads likely in March after investors warned filing for IPO showed a lack of ‘meaningful revenue’ from mobile devices
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Facebook ought to ditch its public offering
The sole tangible purpose for the IPO proceeds is to meet a tax obligation that will be triggered by going public, writes John Gapper
Social, networked executive finds perfect company
Facebook’s chief operating officer has found the company to match her personality, writes April Dembosky
Facebook millionaires eye new exploits
The Facebook IPO give birth to a new generation of young millionaires in Silicon Valley and a handful of billionaires, several of whom have yet to hit their 30th birthdays
Facebook: doing it by numbers
Facebook needs to be assessed differently, if no less cautiously, than the internet IPOs that have gone before it
Facebook reveals what makes its network tick
The first close look that Facebook gave the world of its finances speaks volumes about what makes the social networking company tick
It is right to curtail web anonymity
The policy that people are free to interact online anonymously, or at least using pseudonyms, is under attack, writes John Gapper
Technology: the internet bubble
Valuations and investor hopes are high for fast-growing social media companies – although few have yet proved they can turn their popularity into sustainable profits, writes Richard Waters
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