Will Facebook be Microsoft’s silver medal?
Don Day May 7th, 2008
With Microsoft out of the hunt for the Yahoo! prize — will Facebook be its consolation prize? The Wall Street Journal reports today that Microsoft put out feelers to the hot social networking site to see if acquisition talks made sense. Neither MSFT or FB officials are talking. The software giant already has a $240 million take in Facebook - which tags the overall value at about $15 billion. (Here’s a Reuters write-up of the WSJ piece.)
I can just see it now: Soft Face. No?
4 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | May 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
MicroBook!
2. Rocker | May 8th, 2008 at 8:49 am
They’d have to be out of their minds to pay anything close to $15B.
3. Anonymous | May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 am
They ought to try and get operating systems right FIRST.
4. Anonymous | May 9th, 2008 at 1:35 am
PS There are many of us ANON, maybe we are legion,
We probably can’t afford to own your base though.
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