Which Company Will Acquire Facebook by Q4 2007?

Which Company Will Acquire Facebook?
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According to news, Microsoft is interested in buying 5% of the privately held Facebook.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9...

So, it shows MS is indeed interested. Will this lead to a possible buy-out?

Facebook is trying to recruit developers to develop plug-and-play applications on their social networking site.
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/0034...

MySpace is rolling out its MySpaceTV program in respond to the crazy growth of FaceBook market share.
http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=87...
2007 is definitely an interesting year for social networking site.

Seems like Yahoo strategy with social networking is forming strategic partnership instead of acquisition:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol...

Yahoo just form a partnership with Bebo, the third largest social networking web site in US, in delivering targeted banner ads. I guess facebook and MySpace are big enough to have its ads delivering capabilities that they are not even interested in partnering with Yahoo. So, it seems Yahoo is less likely to acquire Facebook if it continues with the current strategy.

I think facebook has great potential to go IPO. It is one of the few social networking site that have good traffic and a good open software api at the same time. It is evolving into a software development platform now. This is something other sites like MySpace is missing.

If I own facebook, I will try to go for IPO. Dream big man!

Perhaps FB dreams to reach IPO all the way: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136...

Since Yahoo just spend $300 mil to buy BlueLithium, it is not unlikely to make another big purchase any time soon. I bet Facebook won't get acquired in 2007.

Even politicians are doing campaign in facebook:
http://news.google.com/news?q=faceboo...

So, it seems like the success of a web platform is also correlated to how well it can generate news in the media. Look at facebook. It made a lot of noise in the media recently, and it generates a lot of interests from users, other e-biz, and investors.

If there is a company who needs good social network traffic, I will say it is Yahoo.

Employers are complaining about office facebook users who spend all the time "networking" with their buddies, and this costs the employers lots of $$$:
http://www.redherring.com/Home/22607

Some say facebook is worth $6bil now. Isn't it getting a bit expensive to acquire now? On the other hand, it seems like Yahoo is really lack of any results in building a social network with a good enough size to compete in this market today. So, the easiest way out for Yahoo is probably pay for that $6bil and buy facebook. Who knows? Yahoo's stock might go up more than 6bil right after the acquisition, just like when Google got YouTube.

I don't see any company would buy out Facebook. I still do not see the value of facebook yet. Also I cannot categorize this site. What they are doing? Can they really do social network? humm.... I think it just another friendster that will dry out in near future.

It is quite amazing Facebook had been in operation for 3 years already. I wonder if it started out as one of those "basement" project. But I think Facebook has been doing a lot of right things compared to other social network like friendster and myspace.

As shadow of lawsuit hovers Facebook now, I don't see any acquisition will occur in Q3. And it seems that the Founder wants to bring the company to IPO.