Three RIA Platforms
Compared: Adobe Flex,
Google Web Toolkit, and
OpenLaszlo
NN wrote: Yeah you are
right GWT is poor man's
Flex.
After using GWT on two...
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Did Microsoft Over-pay For Facebook?
TIME commented: "The dotcom bubble just got bigger than ever."
By: Jeremy Geelan
Oct. 28, 2007 05:00 AM
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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." "they put Facebook's value at $15 billion to discourage others from investing in Facebook and make Facebook beholden to them.' (gbulmash)Darren Ginter saw a more purposive explanation. "Microsoft needs to get Silverlight out there. $240 million to Facebook is the cheapest method of getting hundreds of millions to install and use it, willingly," he opined. Facebook is almost certain to try an IPO, which makes the Microsoft move all the more interesting. It immediately made the value of co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's stake worth $3BN, for example. Certainly Facebook seems to be sucking users away from MySpace. But as one Slashdot commenter warned, "This feels like 1999 all over again."
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