How Much is Facebook Really Worth?
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Three Fools chime in on the social-networking site's valuation.
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Yahoo has been trying to buy Facebook for a good while now, with the most recent rumored amount being for $1.62 billion. TechCrunch has obtained documents on Yahoo&#8217;s valuation of Facebook, and expected advertising revenue growth over the next 10 years. From TechCrunch: Leaked documents in our possession state that an early offer was $37.5 million for [...]
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For Google, buying a piece of Facebook would have been, well, nice. But for Microsoft, sealing the deal was an absolute necessity.
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According to a survey, sites such as Facebook could be costing more than Â£130m a day in lost productivity.
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The Motley Fool - It's no secret that Internet frenzy 2.0 has included a fair share of small Web start-ups getting bought out by Internet giants. Yahoo!'s (Nasdaq: YHOO - News) reported interest in buying social networking site Facebook last week is yet another case in point. However, craigslist founder Craig Newmark went on the record saying he's not in the least bit interested in a buyout. And guess what -- nobody should be in the least bit surprised.
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A smart investor pays $1.25 billion for Orbitz. So what's Travelzoo worth?
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How much is two months of fashion-forwardness worth? About $200, judging by Apple's precipitous iPhone price cut on Wednesday -- or a whole lot of customer goodwill, judging by user reaction to Steve Jobs' announcement.
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Blog: Facebook's rumored sale or public offering has likely made the company a highly attractive workplace.
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Can't these guys make it easier to understand what the company is really worth?
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Microsoft Corp  is talking to  Facebook about an investment in the company that could value  the fast-growing social network at $10 billion or more, the  Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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Microsoft Corp  is talking to Facebook about an investment in the company that could value the fast-growing social network at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
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TechWeb - Company founders point to the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity.
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I don't know what Bebo is, I guess it's a social network, they say it's #3 in the USA, #1 in the UK, but they just did something that's pretty likely to work, if it's technically possible. They're cloning Facebook so that their service will run Facebook apps. What this means, if they can pull it off, is that they won't have to fight to get support from developers. That's a big deal. Google could have done this with OpenSocial. Watching the panel assembled by Marc Canter at LeWeb3, I was reminded of every tech conference I've been to for almost 30 years. Some big company sitting in the center, and lots of smaller ones sucking up to them, not daring to say what's obvious, that the big company is only interested in limiting the growth of an upstart (not present on stage of course). That's where the Fear comes in Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. We don't say anything because we're too scared to. Even the outspoken Marc Canter, who's smart and has been around this block many times, doesn't dare say what's obvious.  Now Bebo decides to get in lockstep with Facebook, not Google. Of course! Facebook has the juice. But this is a dangerous place to be if Facebook doesn't want them there, and being a big company, they probably don't. The only value of having clones to FB is that it negates the threat from Google. Sometimes having clones is a good thing, but usually the clones take over the market. Witness MSIE and Netscape, and then Firefox. Compaq et al and IBM. dBASE and Fox. It's possible to depose an installed leader if it's possible to clone them. As a user and developer, I'd like to see FB be open to cloning. If I were a FB shareholder I'm not so sure. One constituency that's sure to like the existence of clones are Facebook developers. Without choice in platform vendors, they have nowhere to go when the sole vendor decides to take over their market. With a viable alternative, unless FB is incredibly aggressive and builds its competitive features so they can run on competitive platforms, at least developers will have a place to run their apps when FB encroaches. Platforms are a game, like Risk, with rules and strategies. Google did not play the game wisely with OpenSocial. I chalk this up to inexperience on the part of the strategists. So far Facebook has been doing what's needed to keep its dominant position. Bebo deciding to clone the Facebook API ratifies that position, it's a gutsy move, but the best one available to them, and to other would-be Facebook competitors. PS: The news is slow to reach Europe. Facebook said yesterday that they support what Bebo is doing. Very enthusiastically. That should be the end of OpenSocial.
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WSJ.com to become worth what you pay for it.
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Facebook is asking all of the right questions.
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Software dinosaur Microsoft paid millions for a tiny piece of trendy internet property Facebook. But the company needs something to make it hot again