Mark Zuckerberg 'to float Facebook next year' says LinkedIn co-founder

Mark Zuckerberg will choose to float Facebook next year, that would be the biggest consumer technology public offering in history, a significant investor in the social networking site has said.

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and one the most successful and high profile serial technology investors with stakes in several other major web companies, suggested the Facebook founder will opt to go public in the "first half ... BNN