Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn 216
l-ascorbic writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is poised to buy 5% of Facebook for $300 million to $500 million, valuing the company at up to $10 billion. Microsoft already handles advertising for the site."
Noooooo!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully not (Score:5, Funny)
In any case, register your complaint by joining this group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6197556554 [facebook.com]
Everyone knows that joining a group on Facebook can move mountains and change the world...
Scrabble (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, this input from Microsoft might help to fix the problems that Scrabulous seems to suffer every day... right, gang?? As you can see, I only use Facebook for Scrabble. There must be a group for me.
Re:Scrabble (Score:1, Funny)
> There must be a group for me
yeah, but if you joined a facebook group for people who only use facebook for scrabble, then you would no longer use facebook for scrabble and you'd have to join a facebook group for people who only use facebook for scrabble and being members of facebook groups for people...
I can't wait to see pictures (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hopefully not (Score:3, Funny)
Re:$10 billion (Score:5, Funny)
They must have asked Rupert Murdoch's advice (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Steve Ballmer discussed this with Rupert Murdoch over drinks.
"So how are profits from your MySpace purchase, Rupe?"
"Oh, well ..." said Murdoch, looking nervous. "Actually, great. Great! It's going to be worth billions real soon now." He laughed icily at his own irony.
"Really? Because we were thinking of buying a stake in Facebook at Microsoft."
"Oh, you should totally do it," said Murdoch, grinning wildly.
"Yeah, we thought the developers would love using it on a sort-of group connection to MSDN."
"Do it! There's nowhere for these social sites to go but up."
"And we're thinking of extending the Welcome to the Social campaign to include it."
But Murdoch was laughing to hard to hear the rest.
Re:that would make $ 294 / user! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wow (Score:3, Funny)
Sure you will. Right after you meet that lass in a pub that wants to be your "friend...."
Re:buy people (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, that's one way to get Silverlight adopted (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah! And can't a crackhead just admire your car stereo?
Re:that would make $ 294 / user! (Score:3, Funny)
How are you gentlemen? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This feels like 1999 all over again (Score:5, Funny)
Next month it will be worth ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS, and the month after it'll be worthless.
Re:$10 billion (Score:1, Funny)
I don't think any of those sites you mentioned before were ever as popular or had as many users as myspace. Maybe some numbers will help but myspace is the godfather now and none of those other sites ever made mainstream news.
Myspace set the standards on what a social site is supposed to be and even if it was not much there; livejournal was more of a nerdish/power users site and facebook was used more by collage students and lots of South Americans(its the myspace of South America). Everyone has a myspace account and the last couple years everybody has filled out their info; most of the myspace people have begun to set their profiles as private because they have gathered most of their friends or people they knew in high school.
I know the trendy thing around Slashdot is to dismiss/hate places like Myspace as a plague because they cannot enjoy it or it gets too popular; but millions of people do enjoy it just like Microsoft products.
The reason is simple: Microsoft uses Excel 2007 (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, a social bubble. We should call it Bubblr. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Facebook is nicely done (Score:2, Funny)
Re:wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:20002 called. (Score:3, Funny)