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Social network Facebook will carry out the IPO at Nasdaq. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal referring to some informants who are abreast of plans of the company. According to the journal data the Facebook management has chosen Nasdaq for the reason that most of the web companies trade there.

In particular Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Google stocks float on Nasdaq. In 2011 the listing of this stock exchange was widened with such web companies as a business social network LinkedIn, a Chinese social network Renren and a media holding PandoraMedia.

According to the data from The New York Times Facebook is not going to be listed on any other stock exchange besides Nasdaq. At the end of March the social network prohibited its over-the-counter stocks in order to calculate the number of shareholders and to prepare for the IPO.

Facebook applied for IPO on February 1, 2012 and is about to go public in the beginning of May. It intends to draw 5 billion dollars while floating the company thus it is going to be one of the most outstanding IPOs among the Internet companies ever. The CEO and owner of the company Mark Zuckerberg announced he was going to make his social network a blue chip company.

The mass media referring to the unknown informants among Facebook management stated in autumn 2011 that Facebook was planning to float the company in April-July 2012 and thus to draw 10 billion dollars. This would make this IPO number four in the United States history according to its value.

Facebook social network was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. At present it is one of the most popular web-sites world-wide: 500 million people visit it daily and about 850 million people are registered on Facebook. The IPO of the company is becoming one of the most expected events on stock market since Google IPO in 2004.