A Public Display of Facebook

The Takeaway

Today it’s official. The social networking site Facebook filed to sell shares on the stock market. In its filing, the company said it was seeking to raise $5 billion and wants the ticker FB for its shares. But Facebook is aiming higher, hoping that the initial public offering could value the company to somewhere between $75 and $100 billion. Ian Maude is an analyst with Enders Analysis in the UK, and a former Vice President at AOL.

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