Facebook IPO filing expected within weeks, could reach $100B valuation

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  • Reply 61 of 67
    paul94544paul94544 Posts: 1,027member
    Please Please please understand the difference between communication and communicating.



    Facebook users do a lot of communicating but very little communication, Oh I have 6 facebook accounts and I don't spend a dime there. I never click on the ads EVER.



    I "text" my family and see photos, how does this make zuckerberg money, someone please tell me I'd love to know?



    Facebook revenues reached $500 million in 2009, up from $300 million in 2008, according to Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick, who cites "well-informed sources" in his upcoming book, The Facebook Effect.



    Facebook expects revenues to reach $800 million in 2010.



    Where did 2009's $500 million come from?



    Self-service ads, which appear on the right side of the screen on Facebook, accounted for about $250 million to $300 million.







    Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/...#ixzz1kpsz5REh

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    Originally Posted by quamb View Post


    I think many of you are underestimating the value of Facebook just because they don't release shiny products...



    There are literary millions upon millions of people around the globe that use facebook for countless hours everyday of the week.



    No, they don't check out apple forums, tech news websites, reddit, gmail, use project management software, the cloud etc... no... these people use a huge percentage of their internet time on Facebook. This alone is worth vast sums of money, but there is more to it than that.



    The greatest things of value on earth (and ready to exploit) are not gadgets or tech, but the basic fundamentals of life - food, sex and communication. And here we have this single company that pretty much dominate the third point.



  • Reply 62 of 67
    irelandireland Posts: 17,799member
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    Originally Posted by jragosta View Post


    Buy low, sell high.



    That is not useful.
  • Reply 63 of 67
    cmvsmcmvsm Posts: 204member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post


    So you're wanting to know what an article has to do with Apple if you remove everything about Apple from the article. What I want to know is why you think your question makes any sense.



    You answered a question with a question, but his question still remains. What does this story have to do with Apple?
  • Reply 64 of 67
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    Originally Posted by cmvsm View Post


    You answered a question with a question, but his question still remains. What does this story have to do with Apple?



    So you didn't read the story...
  • Reply 65 of 67
    cmvsmcmvsm Posts: 204member
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    Originally Posted by island hermit View Post


    So you didn't read the story...



    If you are referring to an app having anything to do with the IPO, please explain.
  • Reply 66 of 67
    pokepoke Posts: 506member
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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post


    I'm not following your distinction between an internetwork of computers and a world wide web of computers. Ive always consodered them synonomus terms. The only distinctions I'd make would be browser-centric and app-centric connections to the web/internet.



    The web refers to hypertext and not connected computers. The web is HTML and related technologies, as invented by Tim Berners Lee, who coined the name. The Internet, the network of computers, existed long before the web. The two are not synonymous.
  • Reply 67 of 67
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    Looks like it open as a $5 billion IPO.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by poke View Post


    The web refers to hypertext and not connected computers. The web is HTML and related technologies, as invented by Tim Berners Lee, who coined the name. The Internet, the network of computers, existed long before the web. The two are not synonymous.



    At one point a long time ago that was the only correct answer but web and internet are interchangeable today.
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