How the Gates stole Leopard!
October 26, 2007
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Sources [GeekCulture/JoyofTech]
22 Bizarre License Plates
October 26, 2007
Microsoft buys part of Facebook for $240 million
October 25, 2007
Computer company guru Microsoft has purchased a 1.6% stake of the social networking site Facebook for $240 million(€167.4 million or £117 million, for our European users). This is nothing compared to the $15 billion that Microsoft offered for the entire site-Google has made a similar offer, and Yahoo had previously offered about $1 billion for Facebook. These offers go to show how intent today’s Internet giants are on leaving their print on the Net. Facebook is 3 1/2 years old, and is run by a 23 year old Harvard dropout, who created the site while he was at the school.
No one could have predicted the immense popularity that Facebook has achieved today when founder Mark Zuckerburg created it from his dorm room in February 2004. Originally only for Harvard college members, it was later opened to all students of Boston universities. It was then further expanded to all university students worldwide, before finally being opened to anyone with a valid email address(though today’s current users are usually high school and college students). As Facebook gew in popularity, Zuckerburg began receiving monetary offers that grew increasingly in size. Zuckerburg was criticized when he rejected a $1 billion from Yahoo, but those critcisms were quickly silenced when Google and Microsoft later offered fifteen times that amount. Although not as big as chief rival MySpace, Facebook is growing at a much faster pace. (As a user of both sites, it is my personal opinion that Facebook is the superior social networking site).
The future looks bright for Facebook-with nearly 50 million registered members, and an additional 200,000 signing up every day, who knows where Facebook may end up? This is Kmetal, signing off.
