Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]

The long-awaited tech IPO of the year  perhaps of the decade  is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to ...

If it comes to pass, this will be the largest tech IPO in history, yielding around $10 billion for the social network. The next-largest tech IPO is Infineon, a German company that raised $5.9 billion in 2000. Googles 2005 IPO, as big a deal as it was, didnt even reach the $2 billion mark.

Details are scarce, Facebook isnt commenting, and the WSJs source is unnamed. But the Journal has a track record on such stories that is hard to dispute. The $10 billion share offering would yield the company a total valuation of $100 billion, the paper says, which is ...

An upcoming share offering would also explain why Facebook has been so keen to get its product offerings in place. This week the company announced it would be ...

If and when Facebook does file its S-1 paperwork, it will be forced to enter a quiet period  without product announcements, interviews or any other public statements.