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Facebook is rising to become the third most valuable U.S. Internet company to

Facebook has developed a report by Bloomberg, according to the third-most valuable Internet company in the United States. According to information from the media service, the shares of the Social Network for secondhand market, a trading place for shares of unlisted companies, traded for $ 16 per share. This results in a total value is 41 billion dollars.

So Facebook would have overtaken Ebay. The market value of the Nasdaq-listed online auction house is 39.3 billion dollars. Prior to Facebook, only Google and Amazon are to be valued at $ 192.9 billion, or $ 74.4 billion.

“There is certainly a good reason for Facebook’s tremendous value,” Augie Ray, an analyst at Forrester Research said. “It has evolved into a very short time from a niche service to a site, spend the majority of Americans, much of their time online.”

According to Lise Buyer, Founder, specializes in IPOs consulting firm Class V Group, is evaluating no evidence for a possible value on the open capital market. Maybe Facebook will go in a few years to go public. “$ 41 billion could be a bargain. We know this only when it is traded on an exchange,” said Buyer.

According to the report, the value of Facebook at SecondMarket in the last twelve months have more than tripled. share post, another non-public commercial space have been estimated value in Facebook’s last week to 40.9 billion dollars. This was an increase of 50 percent over the previous month.

Facebook spokesman Jonathan Thaw Bloomberg said: “Try our revenues or to estimate the value of the company are basically speculative and should be treated as such, we are focusing on with our business success in the future..”

2009, Facebook 700-800 million dollars in sales. Will this year take the social network at least 1.4 billion dollars, according to Bloomberg. Facebook earns money mainly through advertising. Since it is not publicly traded, the company must publish its balance sheet is not why there are no official figures on sales and profits.

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