Re:Why Microsoft Overpaid for Facebook
by byrneseyeview on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @01:49PM
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It's schizophrenic to say that Microsoft "overpaid" for Facebook because they'll be getting indirect benefits. It seems to me that their overpayment should be judged on whether they'd be better off with a) the stake in FB, or b) the cash.
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yup... $240M is nothing to MS... they'd probably pay that much just to -
keep google out
make the Live search the only integrated search engine of FB
make Office Live the official "share your doc/work with your friend/co-worker" app on FB... (think of how much marketing $ they'd save)
That 1.6% is probably just something they throw in to make the deal sound more reasonable... instead of just calling it kickbacks..