DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! Mathew's comments is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

Mathew's comments

Jump to original thread »
Author

Will MSFT push Yahoo to buy Facebook?

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

According to the Wall Street Journal, the software behemoth known as the Beast from Redmond is looking at buying between three and five per cent of Facebook for between $300-million and $500-million. As any math whiz (of which I am not one) could tell you, that would value the company at ... Continue reading »

11 comments

  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Can Yahoo! afford Facebook? Seems like a very expensive acquisition.
    reply
  • Mathew

    1 year ago

    I don't know, Jason. I don't think 10 billion would really be that big a deal for Yahoo. Of course, it's easy for me to say that :-)
    reply
  • Leigh

    1 year ago

    Can your Aunt Sally afford Facebook?
    reply
  • Joe Duck

    1 year ago

    Mathew! You've got big money fatigue or something - 10 billion is about 30% of Yahoo's *total capitalization*. I'd say the chance they'll aquire Facebook for 10 billion is very, very low.

    IMHO MS and Yahoo are foolishly looking for aquistions when they should be concentrating on doing a much better job of directing traffic to their own social properties and integrating those properties with other sites. Yahoo's Flickr is an exception and that's the model they should be using for such things.
    reply
  • apetrelli

    1 year ago

    yahoo could do a multi-billion dollar acquisition, perhaps into the teens, in a stock deal.
    reply
  • Mathew

    1 year ago

    Leigh, my Aunt Sally claims she invented Facebook.

    And Joe, I realize Yahoo's market cap is only about $35-billion, but as apetrelli points out, using stock and/or debt I think Yahoo could easily afford a $10-billion deal.

    Whether it actually makes any sense to pay that much for a company with $50-million in revenue is another question :-)
    reply
  • Jeremy Zawodny

    1 year ago

    Heh.
    reply
  • Lipo Man

    1 year ago

    Sweet Jesus, what does Microsoft get in exchange, will they have control of the ads placed on facebook? Mind you I've never been to facebook I assume they have ads.
    reply
  • Leigh

    1 year ago

    That's so weird about your Aunt Sally bc my brother claims he created Ebay....
    reply
  • BillyG

    1 year ago

    MySpace, Twitter, and now Facebook - 3 sites I've never been to, but I'm only 2 eyes, so what the heck does that matter lol.
    reply
  • Tish Grier

    1 year ago

    Yahoo's had a bit of a habit of buying up stuff and then not really knowing what to do with it (MyBlogLog comes to mind first--but the list's pretty long.) So, I have to agree with a number of Kara's points, wile adding that there is still much, much discussion going on re the use of Facebook for business networking. Now, if YahooMash takes on for social (and if you look at it, it does seem to mimic the social aspect of FB), it *might* cause Facebook to tip as a business networking tool. Then again, if FB's not managed well once it's in Yahoo's stable, who knows--the sport du jour , though, is definitley the dollars discussion. Let's see how high it will go before it pops.
    reply

Add New Comment

Returning? Login