Facebook Inc.'s IPO is expected to be the largest ever for an Internet company. It's expected to raise as much as $11.8 billion for Facebook and its early investors - far more than the $1.67 billion raised in Google Inc.'s 2004 IPO. (Associated Press)
Facebook Inc.'s IPO is expected to be the largest ever for an Internet company. It's expected to raise as much as $11.8 billion for Facebook and its early investors - far more than the $1.67 billion raised in Google Inc.'s 2004 IPO. (Associated Press)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a social media wunderkind who turns 28 this month, reportedly will take Facebook public on the stock market May 18 in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004. Facebook's offering values the company at $76 billion to $95 billion, based on the expected number of Facebook shares after the IPO. (Associated Press)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a social media wunderkind who turns 28 this month, reportedly will take Facebook public on the stock market May 18 in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004. Facebook's offering values the company at $76 billion to $95 billion, based on the expected number of Facebook shares after the IPO. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, the Google logo is displayed in the company's New York office. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
** FILE ** The Google logo is displayed in the company's New York office in December 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Google Inc. announced Thursday that it earned $2.89 billion, or $8.75 per share, in the first quarter. That is up from $1.8 billion, or $5.51 per share, a year earlier. (Associated Press)
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., is seen in this photograph on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Images of art work from the museum are among more than 30,000 from art museums worldwide now available for viewing on the Internet through the Google Art Project. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
In this combination of images made from the Google[x] group's "Project Glass" video launched earlier this week on YouTube, the viewer looks through an early prototype of Google's futuristic Internet-connected glasses. The specs are said to give you directions, let you video chat, shop and do everything else you now need a handheld gadget to accomplish. (AP Photo/Google)
