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The Companies that Almost Owned Facebook
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 02 February 2012, 01:50 IST |
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6. News Corporation: In January 2006, the News Corporation, owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch also tried to talk Facebook into acquisition for an unspecified amount.
7. Yahoo: This display-advertising giant, which recently was overtaken by Facebook tried to buy it for $1 billion first in June, brought down its offer to $850 million the next month(due to its drop in market value, according to a report on Mashable), and then unsuccessfully talked to the social network about $1.01 billion deal all in 2006.
