Facebook on Wall Street?


	Facebook on Wall Street?

SClark

7-10-2007 12:40 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f8bf4b39-5573-48ad-a8f7-fa350d8704b3/D034EDBC-83FF-4E4E-B626-DE2A606751A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/" href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bloggingstocks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><SPAN id="ppt936458">Facebook: A facelift for an IPO?</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><DIV><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2007/07/facebook.gif" alt="" />The IPO market is starting to bubble again. So might we see an offering of Facebook?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><DIV>There are some signs. First of all, Facebook hired Chamath Palihapitiya, who was a senior marketing executive at <A href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/time-warner-inc/twx/nys?tabs=quotesandnews">Time-Warner's</A> (NYSE: <A href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/time-warner-inc/twx/nys?tabs=quotesandnews">TWX</A>) AOL. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><DIV>Besides this, there have been other major hirings, such as <A href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/amazon-com-inc/amzn/nas?tabs=quotesandnews">Amazon.com's</A> (NASDAQ: <A href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/amazon-com-inc/amzn/nas?tabs=quotesandnews">AMZN</A>) former vice president of world-wide business and corporate development (Owen Van Natta).</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><DIV>Oh, and something else: Facebook put out an <A href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/acc/367876356.html">ad</A> for a "Stock Administration Manager." Kind of important for an IPO, huh?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/09/facebook-a-facelift-for-an-ipo/"><DIV>Why all the excitement at Facebook? I had a chance to interview Robb Hecht, who is an expert on social networking and operates <A href="http://www.imcstrategies.net/welcome/about.html">IMC Strategy Lab Consulting</A>. According to him:"If Facebook does its branding right by losing its 'college' image, it could be the next <A href="http://http//finance.aol.com/quotes/google-inc-cl-a/goog/nas?tabs=quotesandnews">Google</A> (Nasdaq: <A href="http://http//finance.aol.com/quotes/google-inc-cl-a/goog/nas?tabs=quotesandnews">GOOG</A>) of social networking. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D034EDBC-83FF-4E4E-B626-DE2A606751A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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