JoeLassister Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Facebook And Yahoo In Acquisition Talks for $1 billion? The Wall Street Journal is reporting (behind their damn paywall) that “people familiar with the matter” are saying that the company has had separate acquisition discussions with Yahoo, Microsoft and Viacom over the last year, and that they are again in serious discussions with Yahoo for around $1 billion. That's a lot of money !!! Do you use Facebook guys. I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTH Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I was just thinking Yahoo might because Google made a huge acquisition last year. I think Facebook would get whoever buys it even richer than they already are - 95% of people under the age of 20 use it. I'm one of the exceptions who don't though because I hate being in pictures so there aren't many of me and even less good ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 This is old news. He rejected the 1 000 000 000$ offer from Yahoo. Notice the date is in 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 This is old news. He rejected the 1 000 000 000$ offer from Yahoo. Notice the date is in 2006. And? since 2006, there are so much people using facebook, this concept got to worth a lot more now... Also, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss always claimed that the creator stole their code from ConnectU when they attended Harvard. I guess Mark Zuckerberg could easily sell his Facebook to yahoo or google and give a % to the brothers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 That article isn't even about the first time someone tried to buy Facebook. It won't be sold, people aren't happy with it right now as is. Give it to a big name corporation and people will be even more unhappy. A lot of the Youtube community is still pissed about the Google sale. Basically, Facebook won't be sold. Not if they want to keep their members anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 why sell it? Look at how crappy myspace is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 why sell it? Look at how crappy myspace is. Thats because every 14 year old girl thinks they're a friggin web designer on that site. Making everything fully customizable was probably the stupidest decision in the world, some of those profiles are FUG-LY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 lol you know that's why i hate myspace. the customizations annoy me to death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 They're why I left. Haven`t been on Myspace in ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 I always tought MySpace was strickly usefull for those who play in a band... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhfarber Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yah I remember when those negotiations were going on and Mark Zuckerberg announced that he felt facebook was worth well over 2 billion dollars. Eventually someone will pony up the money and buy it from him because its possibly one of the greatest market research tools on the internet. The future buyer has so much potential to sell information to companies around the world based on the data facebook helps to generate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yah I remember when those negotiations were going on and Mark Zuckerberg announced that he felt facebook was worth well over 2 billion dollars. Eventually someone will pony up the money and buy it from him because its possibly one of the greatest market research tools on the internet. The future buyer has so much potential to sell information to companies around the world based on the data facebook helps to generate. sadly true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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