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Did Microsoft Over-pay For Facebook?

When Microsoft parted with $240M for a 1.6% stake in a company with $140M in revenues and $30M in profits, was it over-paying? Conspiracy theorists were quick to say that the move was deliberate, to inflate the overall value of Facebook to $15BN and thereby prevent anyone else from buying it outright. TIME commented: 'The dotcom bubble just got bigger than ever.'

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#4	leechar commented on the 21 Nov 2007 It's a Silverlight play primarily. Microsoft is positioning Silverlight as the Mashup tool of choice but it needs to make it's download runtime pervasive, something similar to Flash, and this cannot take years. A growing, hot Social site like Facebook is the perfect deployment platform for distribution. Facebook is already committed to Silverlight. But it is also a move to slow down Google, that is how afraid it is of Google in the Social Web.
#3	MSFT vs GOOG commented on the 28 Oct 2007 Google might know something about Facebook that Microsoft does not.
#2	queZZtion commented on the 28 Oct 2007 So FB's now the fifth-most valuable internet company after Google, eBay, Yahoo and Amazon?
#1	TooLitleTooLate commented on the 28 Oct 2007 MS panicked and overpaid, just like it panicked and overpaid when in May it bought AQuantive for $6BN.

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