Microsoft pokes Facebook
8 May 2008 | 05:18 BST
Wanna be in my gang?
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is considering buying the social notworking site Facebook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been running around with money burning a hole in his ample pockets after his failed takeover of Yahoo.
Volish bankers have been having a chat with Facebook to see if it would open to a full buy-out.
Vole already has a $US240 million stake in Facebook, which is valued at $US15 billion.
Neither Microsoft nor Facebook have stood up the rumour and founder Mark Zuckerberg, has always resisted flogging it completely. µ
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