Microsoft can buy share in Facebook

It is impossible to pass by this news:

"Microsoft is in preliminary negotiations to acquire 5% of Facebook shares for $ 300-500 million. The interest of the software giant to a fast-growing resource at the age of 3.5 years can raise its cost to $ 10 billion."

Facebook does not comment on the information, but Microsoft called it "rumors and speculations."
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Full sale of Facebook is not possible: 23-year-old resource founder Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) intends to keep it independent. Last year, he rejected the offer of Yahoo! worth $ 1 billion

However, Facebook, which previously received $ 41 million from venture capitalists and private investors, is again seeking funds for new projects, as well as raising salaries for nearly 300 employees. The company's revenue is more than $ 100 million per year.

According to the Associated Press, the audience resource is 42 million active users. Facebook is supposed to become a public company in 2009.

It is possible that in the case of the heat of negotiations with Microsoft, Google may make its offer. Now Google is refraining so as not to drive up prices, said Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff (Josh Bernoff). "

Let me remind you that the Russian counterpart V Kontakte.ru strongly rejects any intentions to sell it in absentia to some giant, but it is possible that sooner or later this will happen, because creators will be offered an amount they cannot refuse. However, there is another version of the development of events, which consists in the further development of the project, the creation of a whole holding. And the development of the venture capital market and the stock market may prompt the idea of ​​the creators of V Kontakte.ru to become a public company (OAO). By the way, the project “In Kadre.ru” recently appeared, and we can only guess about the real participation of the Durov brothers in it.