Microsoft Clinches Facebook Deal
Posted by Bezhou Feng on 24 October 2007 - 22:56 · 24 comments & 17167 views
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#1 Posted by 
Slimy on 24 Oct 2007 - 23:01
- Good for Microsoft! lol at first I though MS bought them out
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#1.1 Posted by Sagittarius on 24 Oct 2007 - 23:07
- Haha, yeah, that's what I thought too at first, and was wondering what kinds of changes MS would be making.
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#2 Posted by +Zhivago on 25 Oct 2007 - 00:00
- Quote -"The only way this works is if Facebook becomes sort of the users' operating system on the Internet -- everyone logs into Facebook every day to get in contact with their friends and use a multitude of future applications that will be developed for it,"
This is exactly where it's going now.
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#3 Posted by LipSmacker on 25 Oct 2007 - 01:54
- Zzz Facebook has gotten pretty boring... Too bad life gets in the way
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#4 Posted by Smigit on 25 Oct 2007 - 01:55
- 240 million is quite a bit to pay for a 1.6% stake in a company. Lets see how it goes for them. There seems to be a trend of over paying for net based sites and services. Ebay said they over payed for Skype and I'm pretty sure Google over spent on you tube.
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#6 Posted by +lylesback2 on 25 Oct 2007 - 03:32
- good for facebook, for making millions off this deal, and also for microsoft. At least microsoft won't turn facebook into a crap shoot like google has done with myspace. that site needs a face lift, and a major spam blocker.
facebook FTW -
#6.2 Posted by madmax08 on 25 Oct 2007 - 08:22
- Quote - (RAID 0 said @ #6.1)I could not agree more.
amen to that. if i see another invite to a GLAM party, i'll kick myself in the forehead. its stuff like that that makes me dislike myspace. -
#6.3 Posted by kaozgamer12 on 27 Oct 2007 - 04:04
- Quote - (lylesback2 said @ #1)google has done with myspace.
facebook FTW
I thought it was Fox?
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#7 Posted by Cube on 25 Oct 2007 - 03:53
- 1.6 % ?? WTF I thought they had at least 5% stake with 240mils. Facebook's value is way too inflated IMO.
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#7.1 Posted by Smigit on 25 Oct 2007 - 06:33
- so are so many of these other companies. Imagine how many developers you could hire for 240 million to produce something from scratch that solves any problems that the old site has.
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#7.2 Posted by XerXis on 25 Oct 2007 - 09:22
- Quote - (Smigit said @ #7.1)so are so many of these other companies. Imagine how many developers you could hire for 240 million to produce something from scratch that solves any problems that the old site has.
yes but you wouldn't have the very well known facebook name
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#7.3 Posted by Smigit on 25 Oct 2007 - 11:28
- Sure, but you'd have more than 1.6% share in the project.
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#7.4 Posted by GP007 on 25 Oct 2007 - 12:10
- Quote - (Smigit said @ #7.3)Sure, but you'd have more than 1.6% share in the project.
MS never wanted to buy it, they just wanted to get a deal to sell ads in and outside the US.
IF FAcebooks keeps growing and getting more users. The Ad revenue MS will make off of this deal will be way over $240million. In the end, MS will come out making a profit. And Facebook gets some nice updates/services or w/e.
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#8 Posted by Loxx on 25 Oct 2007 - 07:18
- i'm waiting for those 'optimized for Internet Explorer' banners to appear.
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#9 Posted by Faisal Islam on 25 Oct 2007 - 07:22
- one day 'facebook' will be 'Windows Live Facebook' ryt?
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#9.1 Posted by +rm20010 on 25 Oct 2007 - 08:38
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That name sounds so corny, yet it's entirely possible. Seriously, MS really sucks when naming most of their services and products. -
#9.2 Posted by GP007 on 25 Oct 2007 - 12:12
- Quote - (rm20010 said @ #9.1)
That name sounds so corny, yet it's entirely possible. Seriously, MS really sucks when naming most of their services and products.
You don't have to add the "Windows Live" part infront everytime you talk about one of the apps/services. Like Windows live Messanger, everyone just says messanger, or MSN still. Same for other things, the whole idea is that these apps/services are part of the Windows Live family.
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#11 Posted by PENGUINwithM4A1 on 25 Oct 2007 - 09:39
- damn, wish id thought of that >_>
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#12 Posted by Mikeyx11 on 25 Oct 2007 - 16:08
- Quote -Microsoft Corp., a company which needs no introduction
If it needs no introduction, then why mention that it doesn't need one?
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#13 Posted by Magallanes on 25 Oct 2007 - 17:12
- 1.6% it's not enough to "buy" a sit in the committee room.
I think that we are too near of a new dotcom crisis, for example 1 share of google give some sort of $10 but a share cost $600, so investing $600 just give $10 x year, a 1.6% annual or you could say, putting your money under the pillow.
Microsoft said it would be the exclusive third-party advertising platform for Facebook, which has more than 49 million Internet users. That extends a previous deal into Facebook sites outside the United States. Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li said that Microsoft was a better strategic fit for Facebook, since it knew how to work with software developers and build computing environments -- such as its Windows operating system. "Microsoft is a company that knows how to build platforms, knows how to develop relationships with developers. Microsoft developed the network that is the biggest, most vibrant one out there," she said. "Frankly, Google didn't bring as much to the deal."