The Companies that Almost Owned Facebook
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 02 February 2012, 01:39 IST   |    1 Comments
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2. Washington Post Company: Most well-known for the newspaper it runs (which bears the same name), the American education and media company attempted to acquire Facebook a year after it was made universal, for $1.4 billion.

 

3. Viacom: Video & Audio Communications, the fourth largest media conglomerate company in the world made an offer to buy Facebook first in March 2005 for $75 million. It then made two other offers, in February 2006 for $1.4 billion dollars, and in March of the same year for an undisclosed amount.
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