Microsoft may buy Facebook completely

[slugger]

Microsoft, just a few days removed from walking away from its Yahoo bid, is reportedly sniffing around Facebook.

According to Kara Swisher, Microsoft’s bankers contacted Facebook to see if Mark Zuckerberg and company would be interested in selling the company. The Wall Street Journal also reported the same thing, partially citing Swisher. There are no active talks.


Who knows if Facebook would sell to Microsoft, but it’s pretty clear that the software giant wants scale and has about $45 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket.......

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M.S. is already a $240 USD shareholder in Facebook

yummmy!!!!!

[BBThumbHealer]

Didn't expected this ....

[Cyrus_the_virus]

There has been many attempts by different companies to take over facebook but failed. This is because of the strong resistance by it's owner.

Actually he had written sometime back about he not wanting to move offices of facebook to big cities and decide to stay to it's humble origins of startup from a small city. Hence declining big offers from big companies.

[iMav]

when MS bought a majority stake in FB as mentioned by slugger there were talks that eventually MS may make such a move, though i personally the timing is not right, after a failed yahoo bid, this should have waited

[dheeraj_kumar]

Ohoo...

Google + Orkut
Microsoft + Facebook

Battle begins?

[kumarmohit]

nah orkut is no where in comparison to facebook.
facebook is a global phenomena. orkut is limit in its popularity to brazil, india and some other countries.

[FilledVoid]

Microsoft + Facebook

As someone once blogged before "Two turkeys in a bag don't make an Eagle." (Was that from a blog or someones speech I forgot the Source sorry I believe it was about Microsoft trying to acquire Yahoo. )

[ax3]

after micro FAILED 2 buy yahoo ..... its time 2 get some other BAKRA ......

& ya .... its battle | WAR ..... buying spree ha ......

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

lol face book is now done for....

i already hate it a lot... damn those idiots want our cellphone numbers also...!!

[mail2and]

Originally Posted by iMav

when MS bought a majority stake in FB as mentioned by slugger there were talks that eventually MS may make such a move, though i personally the timing is not right, after a failed yahoo bid, this should have waited

Didn't know 15% was considered a majority stake these days.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by mail2and

Didn't know 15% was considered a majority stake these days.

glad you know now

[swordfish]

Originally Posted by kumarmohit

nah orkut is no where in comparison to facebook.
facebook is a global phenomena. orkut is limit in its popularity to brazil, india and some other countries.

orkut is more simpler

[slugger]

who cares if chirkut is simpler or not

save a few Indians, a couple of somali's, and a handful of afghan refugees nobody uses chirkut

Facebook is the most popular social networking community on earth - orkut does not even come close to it

M.S. may or may not end up buying Facebok, but it makes great business sese to add the top ranking social networking site to its portfolio

If the deal does go through then M.S. will have a captive audience of more than 60 million people - a serious number by any imagination, besides the registered user to its other services and sws

[Pathik]

^+1. Chirkut is popular only in India and Brazil.

[dheeraj_kumar]

Originally Posted by mail2and

Didn't know 15% was considered a majority stake these days.

Maybe 15% was the highest percent held by a single individual/group.

[swordfish]

I personally dont like either facebook or orkut as both are for time waste..
facebook is made messy with loads of apps.. this is going to be future of orkut too

[slugger]

Originally Posted by dheeraj_kumar

Maybe 15% was the highest percent held by a single individual/group.

not really

acc 2 wikipedia Mark Zuckerberg is a 30% shareholder in the co

[Maverick340]

no , no , no .. facebook - dont you sell off. MS will making it only usable to ie and cr4p like that ... c'mon , be strong mark

[slugger]

Originally Posted by Maverick340

no , no , no .. facebook - dont you sell off. MS will making it only usable to ie and cr4p like that ... c'mon , be strong mark

FYI Facebook is already usin M.S. money...it has alredy sold out to its investors....M.S. being one of them

[Maverick340]

but MS is not calling the shots right ? thats when things will get messy ..

[slugger]

Originally Posted by Maverick340

but MS is not calling the shots right ? thats when things will get messy ..

no body give away money without putting preconditions and expecting returns on investment

[cooldudie3]

I wonder why orkut is not as popular as facebook?

[kumarmohit]

The reason is simple, at the beginning Orkut had lousy security and privacy features and I do not mean it in a small way, but in a big way. Now ppl in India do not really give a damn about online privacy, they prefer to blindly follow so Orkut became popular becoz of word of mouth.
Facebook on the other hand has easily the best engineering among all social networking sites. It is secure and has really good API. Facebook also integrates with mobile web really well something which orkut cant even dream of.

[legolas]

Originally Posted by a_k_s_h_a_y

damn those idiots want our cellphone numbers also...!!

ha ha...
Microsoft is starting to buy everything one by one?? (or at least trying )

[mail2and]

Originally Posted by kumarmohit

It is secure and has really good API.

My room-mate wrote an essay for one of his courses on how lousy Facebook's security is. Trust me, it indeed is lousy. I mean it's way way better than Orkut was at the start, but calling it secure would be grossly wrong.

Originally Posted by dheeraj_kumar

Maybe 15% was the highest percent held by a single individual/group.

If that was the situation, then with MSFT's clout, they'd already be running FaceBook.

[kumarmohit]

Originally Posted by mail2and

My room-mate wrote an essay for one of his courses on how lousy Facebook's security is. Trust me, it indeed is lousy. I mean it's way way better than Orkut was at the start, but calling it secure would be grossly wrong.

It is in the same context that I was saying so. I do not follow such site related news any more so cant say about the current scenario. But then consider the fact that FB is a much more lucrative tgt for hackers.

[mail2and]

I agree with you there.

[goobimama]

Originally Posted by first post

M.S. is already a $240 USD shareholder in Facebook

My my! How much money do these guys have!

[naveen_reloaded]

is it another yahoo-Ms deal ???

nowadays ms is trying to get other companies ...

[kumarmohit]

nowadays?
When was it not purchasing?