Facebook IPO: How does Facebook make its money?

Get ready for a blockbuster — and almost nuts — technology 2012. Why? Because Facebook is doing a mother of all initial public offerings. And like Netscape and Google before, Facebook IPO is not only going to change the

Brands have been key to Facebook's success since it launched in Mark Zuckerbeg's student digs eight years ago; advertising now accounts for 85% of all the social network's revenue. Here we round up the marketing challenges Facebook still faces when it

Facebook has taken the first step to becoming a public company and filed its S-1 paperwork for an IPO.

Full text of Facebook's S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It's widely reported that Facebook is going to file for an IPO today, and likely that the offering will be in the $5 billion range. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook