The Biggest Deal in History is History!
It’s not that i have slept too long or i was too busy or even too lazy to write an article about the Biggest Internet Deal Ever going up in smoke. There wasn’t just anything to write about. The deal was off the table and the world didn’t stand still. I didn’t feel too good about the high speed accusation of the Wall Street Journal about Microsoft jumping on Facebook right away.
So - Whats Next?
Facebook is a target, no doubt about that! Google was accused to have made an offer of 2.3 billion US$ to buy Facebook in 2005. The rumors didn’t get very far and where completely stopped when Microsoft bought a Facebook share of 1.6% in 2007 for 240 Million Dollars. The value of Facebook was thereby set to 15 Billion Dollars! Microsoft is not the only investor in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Hong Kong Billionaire Li Kai-Shing and German Venture Capital Group Founders Fund are only two to name. Some bad tongues have it, they might even have cut a better deal than Microsoft.
Google’s Facebook Investment Attempt Prevented by Microsoft
At least the influence of Microsoft seemed to be strong enough to withhold the attempt of Google to make an Investment last year. As well Microsoft as Google would like to get their hands on the personal data of the 70 Million Facebook users. Momentarily neither of the search engines are able to crawl the password protected user data. So far about the “We promise never to sell your personal data”. What about selling the whole cake with all the data in it to a third party? But when we are talking about a 20 Billion Dollar Deal, that is as much as Facebook supposedly is worth today, such details can often go under…
What Internet Marketing Experts Say
In the opinion of Internet Marketing Experts such as David Kirkpatrick, Facebook is far less likely to be the next target for billions to be spent than the largest social networking site, MySpace. Even though according to Alexa.com, Facebook overtook MySpace on page views for the first time in April 2008 and is still aspiring with the same consistency, as it did over the past three month, MySpace stays the Largest Social Networking Site on the Internet for now. So who knows; maybe News Corp. would be willing to sell, looking at the things as they are. But it won’t be 20 Billion, that much is sure.
What is happening on the Social Network Market?
Other companies are pressing hard on the social networking market, all dreaming of the big money to make when one of the large Internet Companies will buy them. A dream that has come true for many such as FeedBurner, bought by Google for 100 Million Dollars in last June. The methods and ideas to start a new social networking site seem to be never ending. Yuwie started up in September last year and reached nearly 700.000 users by now by sharing their revenue with their users. The newest project that is running up the stairs is sharing 1.000.000 Dollars amongst the people who sign up with them For Free before July 1st 2008. They are up for big things; at least that seems to be the opinion of more than 1.000 people signing in up every day! You can check it out for yourself and grab a piece of the cake by clicking the banner below!
The Banner and links are missing because they blew up - Just in Case someone would wonder… Social Networking is a coming and going
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