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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Facebook for $6 Billion? … Only if Zuckerberg Agrees to Be Implanted With a Livestock-Monitoring Microchip

So former analyst Henry Blodget says Microsoft is rumored to be planning to buy Facebook for $6 billion. An intriguing rumor. Bunch of suits from Redmond, Wash., flying down to Silicon Valley carrying Timbuk2 bags overflowing with cash for a smokin’-hot social-networking outfit with appalling ad click-throughs.
That’s right–appalling ad click-throughs. “Facebook’s members appear indifferent even [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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