Some Facebook Fun: At an implied valuation of $109 billion , its market cap would just fall short of Cisco Systems . Cisco is currently the 8th largest company on the Nasdaq 100 and it holds a 3.4% weighting in the index.

Rank Company Market Cap Nasdaq 100 Weighting

1 Apple $582 billion 18.3%

2 Microsoft $262 billion 8.2%

3 Google $207 billion 6.3%

4 Oracle $145 billion 4.6%

5 Intel $140 billion 4.4%

6 Vodafone $136 billion 4.2%

7 Qualcomm $114 billion 3.5%

8 Cisco Systems $110 billion 3.4%

Facebook would be bigger than each of the following fellow Nasdaq 100 members: Amazon.com , Comcast , News Corp , eBay , Starbucks . (Of course, the above numbers could change a bit as the actual Facebook listing approaches.)

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