The IPO that will define "Technology Companies' and 1000 Millionaires

A $10 billion Facebook offering would rank fourth among IPOs for U.S. companies, behind Visa Inc., General Motors Co. and AT&T Wireless, according to Dealogic. It would rank Facebook as the biggest U.S. Internet offering ever, replacing Google Inc., which raised $1.9 billion in 2004 at a $23 billion valuation.

Facebook has been able to increase its world-wide advertising revenue from $738 million in 2009 to $3.8 billion in 2011, according toAt a $100 billion valuation, Facebook would be worth about the same asMcDonald's Corp. and nearly half of Google.Facebook's IPO valuation is expected to be somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion. An average US users now spend roughly 16% of their total time online on Facebook. That's an enormous figure.In Q3 2010, the number was around 10% and it shows no sign of slowing down.

Emarketer's recent data reveals Facebook's 2011 revenues – ads, mostly – came in around $4 billion, When the springtime IPO happens, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will become one of the world's wealthiest self-made women. The company will also create 1,000+ millionaires.   Recent reports by CNBR  estimates Facebooks's 2011 revenue was $3.8B, operating profit around $1.5B

The iPhone 5 Anticipated Launch in 2012

The iPhone 5 release date will be this Summer, according to a previously-reliably source at Apple'scontract manufacturer, Foxconn.

9to5 Mac reports that a Foxconn worker told them that the next-generation iPhone, tentatively called the iPhone 5, is gearing up for production. According to the report, there are several different samples, each of which varies slightly from the others, so it’s impossible to determine which will be final.

However, all the samples sport 4-inch or larger screens, which would finally put the iPhone into the same screen leagues as many of its high-end Android competitors, like the Droid RAZR. That of course means none of the samples have the same compact form factor as the iPhone 4 or 4S. The screen on one of the units is said to be made by LG; there was no screen info for the other samples.

 The final design seems nearly finalized, and production is already 'gearing up.' InIT Blogwatch, bloggers debate veracity of tittle-tattle.next iPhone 5 has at various times been rumored to include LTE connectivity, larger display, a quad-core processor, new design and much, much more.

Edison and Steve Jobs World Greatest Innovators

Steve Jobs has been named the second greatisonest innovator of all time, behind Thomas Edison, in the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index.40 percent of respondents said they couldn’t imagine their life without a smartphone or a tablet.

However, the respondents aren’t so sure whether they’d try to become innovators themselves. 45 percent said that invention is not given enough attention in their school, and 28 percent said their education left them unprepared to enter the fields that lead to innovation, namely science, technology, engineering or math.

The data comes from a survey asking 1,010 Americans ages 16 – 25 to identify the greatest innovator of all time. The majority of surveyed young Americans – 52% – chose Edison as the greatest innovator. 24% chose Jobs, followed by Alexander Bell, Marie Curie and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who received 3% of the votes