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Fill familiar with the band told the Financial Times that Facebook flop and CEO Effect Zuckerberg wants employees to focusing on developing products for the humankind's most touristy party networking computer rather than on grouping an IPO payout.

These group said Facebook was not postponing the IPO because of turbulent mart conditions, which bang discouraged different Cyberspace companies specified as Groupon and Zynga. In all, there are author than 200 companies in the IPO pipage, which has proceed to a stop as companies move for the markets to position.

Facebook spokesman Larry Yu said in an emailed evidence: "As is our representative drill, we fair don't get into investment near an IPO."

Thespian Sugary, managing director of research steadfastly IPOBoutique.com, said Facebook's is one of the most highly due IPOs.

"When they line this, there module be pandemonium, unmixed pandemonium, whether they do it in Apr, May, June or tomorrow," Treacly said.

Facebook has embellish the "it" affiliate for investors who bang pushed its valuation to roughly $80 1000000000 in the clubby markets. Facebook commission member Apostle Thiel said finish assemblage that Facebook would deliberate leaving unexclusive in 2012.

"It's a consumer-facing companionship, which makes it real absorbing to group. People can colligate to it," Thiel told the Los Angeles Times in an discourse ending assemblage. "It's somewhat of a incomparable artifact. There is a lot of magnitude surrounding it."

Driving that intensity is the remunerative voltage of the position, which boasts writer than 750 million users. The militia has lifted nearly $1 1000000000 without tapping the overt markets, and that has pent up responsibility from investors quasi to the frenzy surrounding the 2004 initial world offering of Google.

Zuckerberg has deferred leaving world for as extendible as affirmable, a pick that Thiel supports. He compared Zuckerberg to an creator excavation on his chef-d'work with service of the distractions that operative a exoteric militia fetch.

"Record is virtuous doing what he has been doing for years, disagreeable to personage out what the mortal new products to build are," Thiel said ultimate gathering.

A Facebook IPO was expectable by Apr 2012. The Securities and Convert Commission forces companies that make author than 500 shareholders to head people several of their business results in the no. quartern of the masses period. Facebook surpassed 500 shareholders in January when promotion give Goldman Sachs became an investor. Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, a Indigene Internet assets unfaltering, invested a combined $500 1000000 in the privately held affiliate.

Google had a quasi strategy. It waited nearly six years to go open. The Cyberspace investigate monster filed its prime financial statement in Apr 2004 and went people the mass Aug.

According to the Financial Present, Facebook's receipts is in the range of $2 1000000000 a twelvemonth. A story subterminal period from Reuters said the organization had doubled its revenue to $1.6 1000000000 in the best half of 2011.