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| When does FB become an acquisition target Posted by Beerinthepocket With Facebook's share price tanking, at what point do you think it becomes an attractive acquisition target for a company sitting on a boatload of cash? (think Apple) on 7/31 at 10:12 amReply • Back to Top |
| You serious, Clark? Reply • Back to Top |
| more like think Myspace. FB != AAPL. They have no tangible product or innovation. Sure, they add a feature here and there, but they have done nothing to "revolutionize" social networking. A new fad will come along eventually and you will think "Myspace". And don't think they can't run through that cash real quick-like. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Any company can become an acquisition target at the right price Fred. Reply • Back to Top |
| FB itself is sitting on a lot of cash. Could make for a good leveraged buyout deal. No idea what the price would have to drop to . Clearly the IPO price was way too high so I would think that it would really have to tumble for someone to consider an acquisition. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Well if you think it's attractive, go buy some now. Any buy out would have to be 50% more than the going market cap. That leaves you plenty of room to be wrong. Dive. Right. In. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I would literally shite myself laughing if this happened. The idiots who want to buy into facebook are so dense. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: It would be pretty funny, in a tragic kind of way  I wouldn't do it, but you know somebody out there is thinking about it. There seems to be a lot of cash sitting around earning next to nothing and i think it's only a matter of time before someone finds some way to rationalize it. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I hope it's Zuck. Then he moons the cameras and walks off. Reply • Back to Top |
| Facebook scares me due to legislative risk resulting from privacy/data mining issues. They aren't really innovating anything nor producing anything. Reply • Back to Top |
| The ad research data they accumulate is very valuable but that would only be attractive to a specific type of parent company Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Quit being so hostile, this is the Money board not the OT. No where in my post did I come close to implying I was thinking about buying right now. Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by Gujam8 on 8/1 at 10:08 am to Beerinthepocket MSFT tried it before and might be interested. They lucked out by not having to pay a premium for YHOO back in the day and might have dodged a bullet again with FB.Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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