By:
BARBARA ORTUTAY
02/01/12 12:01 AM
By: AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file
FILE - This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif....
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NEW YORK —
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public in a stock offering that could value it at as much as $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
That means anyone with the right amount of cash will be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon that quickly transformed from dorm-room startup to cultural touchstone.
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