Comments on: MICROSOFT Is Now Friend With FACEBOOK http://www.ivana-atmojo.com/2007/10/29/microsoft-is-now-friend-with-facebook/ La Joie d'être Vivante: the joy of being alive! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Meldy http://www.ivana-atmojo.com/2007/10/29/microsoft-is-now-friend-with-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Meldy Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:42:50 +0000 http://www.ivana-atmojo.com/2007/10/29/microsoft-is-now-friend-with-facebook/#comment-118 "Well, Microsoft seems to be on the way to becoming Google’s proper rival!" The way I see it, Google is becoming a proper Microsoft rival.. but never mind.. (I'm all for Google by the way :) "How does one value an internet-based firm like FACEBOOK properly? How do we come up with a bottomline of $15 billion?" One of my client, a FTSE 250 company recently paid £0.5bn to acquire one of the world’s leading provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors. Like you, I can't fully understand their justification for paying half a billion quid for a company that worth much less than that. I guess at the end of the days, the value of a company depends on how desperate the seller is for money and the buyers are to get a piece of the firm. Just like BBC's Dragon's Den :) I believe Microsoft once offerred a huge chunk of money to takeover Friendster but they refuse to sell the business. I'd have cried my eyes dry if I were the founder of Friendster :) “Well, Microsoft seems to be on the way to becoming Google’s proper rival!”
The way I see it, Google is becoming a proper Microsoft rival.. but never mind.. (I’m all for Google by the way :)

“How does one value an internet-based firm like FACEBOOK properly? How do we come up with a bottomline of $15 billion?”
One of my client, a FTSE 250 company recently paid £0.5bn to acquire one of the world’s leading provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors. Like you, I can’t fully understand their justification for paying half a billion quid for a company that worth much less than that. I guess at the end of the days, the value of a company depends on how desperate the seller is for money and the buyers are to get a piece of the firm. Just like BBC’s Dragon’s Den :) I believe Microsoft once offerred a huge chunk of money to takeover Friendster but they refuse to sell the business. I’d have cried my eyes dry if I were the founder of Friendster :)

]]> By: Hong http://www.ivana-atmojo.com/2007/10/29/microsoft-is-now-friend-with-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Hong Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.ivana-atmojo.com/2007/10/29/microsoft-is-now-friend-with-facebook/#comment-92 interesting world of tech companies' core business shifts we live in right now...microsoft is prodding the online ads business whom google is most proficient at, and google is prodding the OS business by launching gOS whom microsoft is most proficient at. what's next? interesting world of tech companies’ core business shifts we live in right now…microsoft is prodding the online ads business whom google is most proficient at, and google is prodding the OS business by launching gOS whom microsoft is most proficient at. what’s next?

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