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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Hey Ballmer. We’ll Sell You a 1.6% Stake in Orkut for $240 Mil and a High-Def Copy of the Monkey Boy Video

As Microsoft announced that it would invest $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, valuing Mark Zuckerberg’s little Harvard project at $15 billion, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company co-founder Sergey Brin were onstage at Google’s analyst day in Mountain View, Calif..
Coincidence? Not likely. How satisfying it must have been for Redmond to block [...]

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