Facebook warnings fail to dissuade investors
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Your support makes all the difference.Facebook is on track for technology's biggest flotation this Friday, despite two huge setbacks for the social network.
The planned $13.6bn (£8.5bn) New York listing could see the $3.7bn-revenue company worth more than $100bn.
Last week it issued what was effectively a profit warning for its second quarter by revealing it is struggling to make money from access on mobile phones. It also emerged that its $1bn purchase of photograph-sharing app Instagram will be delayed by an unexpected competition investigation in the US.
Nevertheless, Facebook's recent cross-country roadshow to drum up US investors seems to have paid off, with reports of the stock being oversubscribed by institutional investors.
Shares are set to float at between $28 and $35 each, valuing the social network at up to $96bn. But US sources have said that investors want to buy more than the 337 million shares that will be available on Thursday – which could push the firm's value to more than $100bn.
The company that began life in Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room now has more than 900 million users. However, it has become comercially more savvy since Sheryl Sandberg joined in 2008.
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