Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Facebook IPO Valuation could top $100 Billion


This year Facebook is on-track to reach 1 billion users and it’s the greatest success stories of the internet revolution itself.

After Google Facebook is the second most visited site on the internet. YouTube is on third and Yahoo!, Baidu, Wikipedia, BlogSpot, Windows Live, Twitter and Amazon are coming in rest of the top ten.

Everybody knows that Mark Zuckerberg a student of Harvard, who joined with a couple of friends, launched the Facebook in 2004. The idea is to find schoolmates and connect online to them. Now facebook claims more than 800 million active users across the world.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $US10 billion ($9.38 billion) and value the company at $US75 billion to $US100 billion.

But 100 billion dollars? What does this mean? Facebook offers free services to consumers, users and companies to join, interact with each other, to become FAN, to publish their stories, photos and videos. Of course facebook’s central attempt to popularize their advertisements is successful way of generating revenue.

Facebook has millions of "friends" -- but when the company will go for public in nearest time, the big question will be whether shareholders are among them or not because a lot depends upon facebook’s revenue and their plan to increase the same.

So, the quwstion is do you really think it is worth investing in Facebook? Please post your comments and let us check whre Facebook is heading with this IPO!