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February 3, 2012

Easy Facebook Money Already Made

John Shinal, MarketWatch

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In comparing the pending Facebook IPO to Google’s 2004 stock offering, investors should keep one very important difference between the two in mind: While Google’s IPO truly was an initial offering of stock to noninsiders, the same can’t be said of Facebook’s.

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