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Facebook 'set for $100bn IPO'

The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, is to have its stock market launch with a value as high as $100bn being estimated.

Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains the dominance of the website in the market and Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com, analyses the pitfalls of a company going public.


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