Comments on: Even Microsoft doesn’t value Facebook at $15 billion

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:50:28 +0000

Well Microsoft isn’t paying the 240 mil for the 1.6% some people have failed to understand that the money is also going towards eliminating the competition. Facebook would have asked for quite a larger amount to do that as they will be losing lots of money from lots of different investors. You cannot value a company on the basis of a business offering. They must also take into account the lifespan of social networking websites, whether Facebook decides to start charging money to use their service etc….there is too much to take into account to simply base the value of a company on one business transaction.

By: Shubham

Shubham — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:07:03 +0000

microsoft did the right thing.! Facebook ranks 2 in World..! Thats really very good..!

By: Leif Harmsen

Leif Harmsen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:51:43 +0000

What will the value do when ordinary folks figure out WHY we have a domain name system in the first place, and consequently leave Facebook and the like in droves. Mention proprietary “social” networking in a year and everyone will think “trashy, cheap, unprofessional, pathetic, stupid”. Oh, we think that already – it’s a year on since the last post. I guess things like Facebook, cigarettes, casinos, opium, hotmail, subprime, etc. can only fool so many people for so long, then we mostly get wise to them. Those that don’t earn the label “loosers” and carry that stigma, because however unkind, that’s what they are.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:28:16 +0000

You are obviously stupid, which is why your analogy fails.

It isn’t that you just bought the garage in the house – you also bought the shiny Mercedes in there. THAT is the correct relationship with Microsoft, ownership in Facebook, and the ad deal.

Thanks for trying

By: Abner

Abner — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:04:27 +0000

And I also mispelled “charlatan.”

By: Abner

Abner — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:02:12 +0000

Pardon me, my post should have read, “… for a certain price…”

By: Abner

Abner — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:24 +0000

I do not know how or why this Ahmed can speak for Microsoft… If you bought a garage in a house for a certain—for whatever reason or use you might have in mind and for however long you want to use it—then the price of the house can be deduced from the price of the garage itself!… This Ahmed is a charlattan…

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:26:06 +0000

Come on guys, this deal is a simple deal to understand. I don’t understand this nonsense about the deal being worth less than $15B. If you pay $240 Million for 1,6% then the company is worth $15B, that’s it. Terms or not.

Financial investors can’t see this strategic value, that is something I understand. But you need to understand that the deal between MS and FB is a strategic deal all over. Nothing else. It has nothing to do with Wall Street “talk” at all. This is called a “business” transaction. It has nothing to do with stock exchanges and when it will be anything to do with stock exchanges FB will be capitalising on the MS deal and the P/E ratio will have reached lower numbers (hopefully). MS would be able to trade the value on the stock exchange very soon (unless ad revenues from FB will be a total flop).

By: Eric Hates corps

Eric Hates corps — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:16:02 +0000

A great opportunity to stop using sites such as facebook, Micro$oft just wants to know about everyoneâ€™s preferences, since they already know what you listen to, now theyâ€™ll have a name â€œ yoursâ€ to sue if they donâ€™t like the way you obtain your music, people stop using these type of sites!!, specially if they are owned by corporations.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:10:47 +0000

1.6% for $240 million does seem a bit pricey…And I’d have to know more about the ad deal to know whether it really reduces the supposed valuation of Facebook.