Facebook worths $10+ billion?

[fusionz]

there's a ton of growth right now for internet advertising. A lot more people use the internet regularly now than the .com days and the advertising is a lot more effective. I'm not sure if facebook is worth $10 billion, but social networking isn't going away anything soon.

 

[arealpissedgoy]

Quote from cszulc:

No one figured Myspace would be a fad...probably until the larger spammers and predators came about. Although, you are right that no one knew what social networking was back then and now it is all the rage with those 14-21 year olds, right?

How are these sites being monetized.

Rupert Murdoch keeps crowing on how myspace is worth 10 times what he purchased it for, and yet he is losing money running the site. Beats me what all the hype is all about.

 

[stock_trad3r]

Worth 20-30 billion based on growth , profitability, and audience. Facebook is essentially a full blown media company like Cnn.

 

[TorontoTrader2]

Facebook's value is unlimited, more so to a national security entity (think: CIA, Mi6, Mossad).

All in one, you have from almost every person on there:

IPs
name
address
workplace(s)
school(s)
email address(es)
sexual preferences
political views
friends (aka collaborators, if it comes to it..gulp)
interests
groups
places travelled/countries visited
credit card info (if you send a gift)
pictures
phone #
ads clicked on


Did I miss anything?


Edit: you do realize that the "Patriot" Act means that this info can and will be used against you without a warrant?

 

[xxxskier]

i know some of the people who work there. i won't comment on the valuation, but i will share this observation with you that i heard recently from a VC......"facebook is the first mega-technology platform ceo'ed by a virgin (at the time) and a crew of mostly virgins."

i don't know if its true....just passing it on for your entertainment. but i think if it is indeed true it has some interesting implications.





PS i know what some of you are thinking............no i'm not. lol.

 

[BosyBillups]

Like real estate, a share of common stock, Snickers, and golfing, Facebook is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, period!

 

[vansmarket]

Yahoo bought broadcast.com and had geo.

yahoo management can do anything of their own but burn corporate money and buying overpriced companies... very typical of corporate management in general in America

Quote from forex-forex:

Yahoo was interested in Myspace for 1 billion.

 

[stock_trad3r]

if facebook does Ipo It will surge 300-500% in fist day trading and keep going higher from there.

it will end year up 1300%

and have a 10000+ pe ratio


This will be huge

 

[vansmarket]

you are wrong.

that theory works in both ways

it's is worth what the 'market' says it's worth.

the 'MARKET' can change 'instantly'

only fraudsters would say that.

Quote from BosyBillups:

Like real estate, a share of common stock, Snickers, and golfing, Facebook is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, period!

 

[vansmarket]

the yahoo bid was bullshit

and the rejection of the bid was bluff..

it's hocus pocus...to draw higher bids even though there are no serious bids.

Quote from monty21:

Facebook is definitely not worth 10 billion. I could be wrong but I think Yahoo bid 1 billion for it but was rejected because Facebook's management valued it more at around 7 billion. This happened recently too.