Facebook启动上市扎克伯格发表公开信_BEC初级作文

Facebook启动上市扎克伯格发表公开信

Rumours of Facebook's so-called initial public offering (IPO) have circulated for many months, and the company has maintained it will not comment on the subject.

关于Facebook首次公开筹股的流言蜚语已经传了好几个月，对此公司上下缄默不语，公关部门和普通员工均拒绝发表任何评论。

The reported valuation would make Facebook one of the world's biggest companies by market capitalisation.

报道中预计，Facebook上市后将成为全球市值最大的公司之一。

"Facebook a brilliant achievement, but $75-$100bn? Would make Apple look really cheap," said Rupert Murdoch on Twitter.

传媒大亨鲁伯特·默多克在Twitter上发表评论表示：“Facebook成就辉煌，不过750亿-1000亿美元估值真的会让苹果公司看起来很廉价。”

The company was started by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow students at Harvard University in 2004 and has quickly grown to become one of the world's most popular websites.

Facebook公司由马克·扎克伯格及同学于2004年在哈佛的大学宿舍创办，目前已经迅速发展成为世界上最受欢迎的网站之一。

It makes most of its money through advertising.

Facebook最大的收益来自于广告盈利。

As a private company, Facebook does not have to publish its accounts, but reports in January last year suggested a document sent by Goldman Sachs to its clients showed the firm made a net profit of $355m on revenues of $1.2bn in the first nine months of 2010.