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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Microsoft buying Facebook?
In case you missed it, Microsoft wants to buy a 5 percent stake in Facebook, the hugely popular social-networking site. Here’s more: (link).
The deal values Facebook at $10 billion, which seems reasonable given that 19 million people visited the site in August, Nielsen Netratings says.
Doesn’t anybody else worry about Bill Gates’ bunch taking over Facebook? Would we be bombarded with more ads or, worse, Facebook messages asking us to buy the latest Office Suite.
Just look at how the company screwed up Halo 3. The game packaging is scratching the video-game disks: (link).
Wouldn’t Facebook be better off with Google?