{"id":393,"date":"2011-12-06T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=393"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T19:06:56","slug":"facebook-stock-offer-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/393\/facebook-stock-offer-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook stock offer rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet on Monday buzzed anew with talk that <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> is poised to go public after the Wall Street Journal reported the social networking giant could issue stock as early as April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to participate in speculation about an IPO,\u201d Facebook spokesman Larry Yu said in response to an AFP inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that Facebook executives were discussing the potential of an initial public offering (IPO) of stock some time between April and June of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month Facebook co-founder and chief executive <a title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362086-Mark-Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said during an interview on Charlie Rose\u2019s PBS television program that the company will have an IPO at some point but was in no hurry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s not something I spend a lot of time on a day-to-day basis thinking about now,\u201d he said during the November 7 interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big part of being a technology company is getting the best engineers and designers and talented people around the world,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd one of the ways that you can do that is you compensate people with equity or options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point we\u2019re going to make that equity worth something publicly and liquidly, in a liquid way,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, the promise isn\u2019t that we\u2019re going to do it on any kind of short-term time horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet on Monday buzzed anew with talk that Facebook is poised to go public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,45],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}