News of the Google YouTube acquisition wasn't even cold yet when a new rumor popped up in the blogosphere that Google is also in talks to outbid Yahoo! on the number two social networking site, Facebook, reportedly offering $2.3 billion. The rumor began circulating at ThreadWatch, but in light of recent history, and the fact that blogosphere is reluctant to take any type of real propagation credit, we're leaving the Acquisition Alert Level at original claim: GOOG is looking at Facebook at a 2.3bil price. This could be a total joke on their part, but the source is solid.
A bloggers to explore the idea, even if at least two of them are taking credit for propagation if it pans out. If it not true, they're whistling past the scene hoping nobody saw.
On the surface, it may seem right. This same speculation made the rounds last Spring when Google sold off offering $1 billion for it. G
oogle is sitting on a mountain of cash, too - so much that the feds threatened to categorize the company as an Murdoch claims Google could have bought MySpace for half the price News Corp. paid for it, if they'd moved in the months before. Again: Murdoch says Google could have bought MySpace for less than $300 million. But they didn't. Murdoch called it "arrogance" that they didn't buy MySpace, and perhaps now they're paying the price.
Was that a mistake? Are Google executives feeling the burn on that so bad that they're willing to pay ten times the price to get Facebook?
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