Before Facebook sued the German social networking site StudiVZ last month for copying its "look and feel," it had been in talks to purchase the site.
A former StudiVZ executive says Facebook had been negotiating for months to buy the social network.
StudiVZ had 12.2 million German members in June, compared to Facebook's 1.2 million members according to comScore.
StudiVZ's owner, the Holtzbrinck Gruppe, reportedly paid $134 million for the site in January 2007, and would only consider selling the social networking site for several times that amount, according to the former executive. The executive says the lawsuit is an attempt to get Holtzbrinck to sell StudiVZ.
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