facebook for sale Options

[Seeker]

BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has turned down an offer for $750 million and is looking for 2 billion dollars. The article speculates that one possible suitor would be Viacom. From the article: 'A Facebook deal would help Viacom founder and Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone fend off a growing challenge from News Corp. The media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch has poured enormous resources into the Internet during the last year. It acquired social-networking pioneer MySpace.com last year for $580 million.

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/28/1453250.shtml
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...0327_215976.htm

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[impala454]

1 billion is only 250 million dollars more than 750 million (what one company already offered)

i could see another media company upping their offer by 250 million just to reap all the advertising benefits

what i can't see is a company doubling that and paying 2 billion, the money would be better spent on r&d, making their own site, and advertising it on tv

so you think the first and only offer so far should be the correct offer? if that was true half the shit that gets sold on this forum would go for $5.

and creating your own site and advertising it is stupid, the whole point is the facebook already has however many millions of people looking at it a day. do you think all those crazy people who spent hours and hours on end creating their profiles and uploading pics will want to do it all over again?