DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Facebook Offering

A surging shadow market in the privately held shares of Facebook is making such restraint difficult and could spur the company to go public — even as its executives try to tamp down speculation about an initial public offering — much as similar pressure helped push Microsoft and Google toward their own initial public offerings.

DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Facebook Offering

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