Microsoft pokes Facebook
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 $US15 billion.
Neither Microsoft nor Facebook have stood up the rumour and founder Mark Zuckerberg, has always resisted flogging it completely. µ
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Steveie
Might have a bit of spare cash in his pocket but paying anything more than 5 billion for facebook would be daft.M$ just want to own everything, including you and me
once M$ buy facebook, if that is true, and facebook got take over by M$, i will quit facebook.period.
Ditto
I'll be closing my account as well if MS to manage to take over...@leil
Who cares. facebook is for tossersand school kids. thay will shed no tears when you abond your one friend on facebook.
M$
I agree, if MS buys, I am pulling my account. I no longer support them. They are an evil company. I also wish to no longer support Comcast, but they are so large where I am that there is no other company to pick.MS has no respect.
See what I mean, they keep buy many company without respect. All they want have whole units into one main company called Microsoft. I want see many different company except see Microsoft really piss me off. Because they brought Danger.com which create software for sidekick. what next doe this monopoly monster attack.You're notworking me search bits, cookie.
69 million active users worldwide to wibble? I reckons 69 makes it poker money, err_ to compete with eh...So big Ballmer and the beholder company wants to roll over their bristols to become an emedia success with a worldwide encartal? Great Raven Shedloads of Gaffers Goosed Risings! You is bare mingin' and me and my posse' to pony-up to anti-trusting physiomics? What ere on about be the matter? Whot about the the RIP gravestones, comely, albeit littering, casual ties already stiff stood up in their boneyard? Notting new under the sun? Lest MS. Frankenface can chat you up? Crikey! She WU me! Enuf already. Speak some word o'wisdom, Dear Eliza: "Could you elaborate on that?" There's a hole in me Outbucket! Lo! It's not a hole! It's a sparky security plug! Get some holsters on those Bristols, and cover something you haven't already seen before? My! That is a genuine advantage, you have me at! Even General Electic gets a buzz from the Sci-Fi channeling! Can you not find a suitable hobby?
why not re-invest?
If Microsoft has so much spare cash that they want to get rid of, why not actually invest it into some useful projects such as proper r&d for their software. Clearly they don't have enough staff or they don't spend enough time and money on their own products if they have that much left over. It's not like Windows and Office couldn't use some better programming anyway...Facebook is pretty much the only social networking site I consider to be worth using. MySpace, Bebo and others are just too messy and full of teenyboppers and emos (although Facebook is slowly getting that way as well). If it was going to be taken over by Microsoft, I think I'd go back to just using Flixster...
Or, why not send some of that money my way? I'd be happy to take it off of their hands...