Possible sale of Facebook
Facebook.com has generated a lot of buzz and popularity that as members goes up a lot of companies have voiced out their interest in buying facebook.com from its original owner and founder Mark Zuckerberg. After the sale of rival networking site MySpace to NewsCorp. In 2006 lots of rumors started to float around with regards to the selling of facebook.com to a much larger company.
Contrary to rumors, facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg has continuously denied reports of a sale, saying he does not intend to sell facebook.com yet at the time being. In fact Mark Zuckerberg has already rejected a $975 million offer from an unnamed company.
Although serious talks with Yahoo concurred in 2006 and in October of that year Google also joined in talks about possible selling of facebook.com, it is rumored back then that Google laid out on the table a $2.3 billion offer.
Many xperts and some board members of facebook like Peter Thiel meanwhile, believes that the real value of facebook.com is somewhere around the $8 billion mark.
In September of 2007, Microsoft offered a deal suggesting an investment setup wherein there would be a 5% company stake for Microsoft in addition to paying facebook.com about $ 300 to $ 500 million for the shares.