Speculation For Potential Facebook IPO投機的潛在Facebook的首次公開招股
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 週五, 2008年5月23日There is a Web of projection that recently built up around the public debut of Facebook , Silicon Valley’s hottest Internet company.有是一個網上的投影,最近建立了周圍的首次公開亮相的臉譜 ,矽谷最熱門的互聯網公司。 Although, Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook’s founder denied this in an interview with CBS’s 60 minutes, but,that hasn’t stopped bloggers and investors from interpreting Facebook’s every move as preparation for an eventual public offering.雖然, 馬克扎克伯格 , Facebook的創始人否認了這一說法在接受記者採訪時,與CBS的60分鐘,但是,一直沒有停止博客和投資者解釋臉譜的一舉一動,作為準備,最終公開發售。
“Social media is going to be mainstream, it’s going to be ubiquitous,” said Mayfield Fund managing director Navin Chaddha at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms summit this week. “媒體的社會將會是主流,這將是無處不在,說: ” 梅菲爾德基金董事總經理納chaddha在路透社全球科技,媒體和電信高峰會議本星期。
Venture capitalists say the excitement around Facebook is warranted given the explosive growth in membership.風險資本家說,興奮左右Facebook的是需要考慮以爆炸性的速度增長成員。 The social network has more than tripled the number of active members to 70 million from about 20 million in April 2007. 社會網絡已增加了兩倍多人數的積極成員,以七千萬從約20萬元, 2007年4月。 They also said that they’ve asked start-ups they fund to shore up cash for the next year or so, until the public markets open their wallets for their debuts.他們還指出,他們已經問創業基金,他們到岸現金,為下一年多,直到公共市場的開放他們的錢包,為他們的首次亮相。
Despite the incredible traffic that Facebook continues to generate, the company is still in the process of determining just how to translate all the online traffic into actual dollars; 2007 revenue is reported to be $150 million. Although Facebook collected $300 million from Microsoft (MSFT) recently, they will need additional funding. An IPO is most likely the route they will take to acquire additional funding.儘管令人難以置信的交通, Facebook的繼續產生,該公司仍是在這個過程中確定只是如何把所有的交通線上轉化為實際美元; 2007年的收入據報導,被1.5億美元,雖然Facebook的收集三億美元從微軟( MSFT )最近,他們將需要額外的資金。 上市是最有可能的路線,他們會考慮收購額外的資金。
Source : Reuters 資料來源 :路透社
































