11 Companies that Want to Buy up

Popularity up seems to make a number of companies flocking to seduce Mark Zuckerberg's site was for sale. Demand even the IT giants of the world.
Here are 13 of the 11 companies bidding activity according to David Kirkpatricks in his book 'The Facebook Effect
1. June 2004 Launched in February 2004, Facebook seems to attract the attention of a businessman from New York. Mark who was then 20-year-old rejected an offer of U.S. $ 10 million from the businessman.
"She did not menggrubis offer," wrote David Kirkpatrick in his book.
2. Friendster According to reports, one of the initial bidder up is Friendster. But the deal never happened.
3. 2004 Summer According to reports Kirkpatrick, several Google executives come to see what they might cooperate or even buy the social networking site.
4. March 2005 At that time, up story in The Washington Post about the investment. Out of nowhere, a company Viacom - owner of MTV television station - offers U.S. $ 75 million to buy up. Not only that, Mark will immediately get $ 35 million on the spot if you want to live off the social networking site. Unfortunately, the effort was not quite successful.
5. Year 2005 Before selling to News Corp., MySpace try to bargain up. Chris DeWolfe, MySpace CEO visited Mark and his team. However, according to the report, Mark, president up Sean Parker, and adviser Matt Cohler met Chris only to see it. They are attracted to Chris because he thought he was an interesting person and they just want to know more about MySpace.
6. Autumn 2005 Apparently Viacom has not given up too. As is known that many young people choose to spend their time on networking sites soial it than watch MTV. Mark immediately flown to New York to see MTV CEO Tom Freston. Tom tells how nice it later when they work together. Unfortunately, the mark was not interested.
7. Again, in 2005 Kirikpatrick not tell many details on this incident. However, the company's NBC (National Broadcasting Company) - U.S. television network company - finally decided to stop 'persuade' up in year 2005.
8. January 2006 News Corp - MySpace new owner - seems to have had the same idea. Digital News Corp boss, Ross Levinsohn flew Mark Zuckerberg and Matt Cohler to Los Angeles. Ross wants to buy up but he worries about being able to follow its growth.
"That's the difference between the Los Angeles firm with Silicon Valley companies. We built this long and people on MySpace do not know," said Mark.
8. Year 2006 MTV boss, Michael Wolf, come on up. At that time, Mark told her that probably cost the company U.S. $ 2 billion. A few weeks after that, Viacom offered $ 1.5 billion on up. U.S. $ 800 million will be paid cash and the rest followed.
According to reports Kirkpatrick, up almost just bought them that ask for money but more for early payment. However, the deal was failed. Viacom never bid again.
9. June 2006 Yahoo decided must have up. They offered U.S. $ 1 billion on up. Many executives who want to sell. But then up recently issued a News Feed and it went well. Mark himself assess his company worth more than U.S. $ 1 billion.
On one occasion, Yahoo actually lowered its offer to $ 850 million after announcing falling profits earned. According to reports, only took 10 minutes for up to reject the offer Yahoo's.
10. Again, in 2006 AOL CEO Jonathan Miller decided to buy up in mid-2006. Time Inc. CEO invites., They offer U.S. $ 1 billion more. But they finally thought better and prefer to give money to their parent company.
11. Autumn 2006 Unyielding. Yahoo back to 'seduce' up and offered U.S. $ 1 billion more. Unfortunately this time Yahoo has not succeeded as well.
12. Year 2007 One of the bosses of Google, Tim Armstrong convince the company to immediately buy up. Google does not ever get a deal, but according to Google news has been bid up to U.S. $ 15 billion.
13. Still in 2007 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 'seduce' Mark with the money of U.S. $ 15 billion. Another option from the Microsoft bid is every six months, Microsoft will buy 5% stake in Facebook, so the planned company takeover to be completed 5 to 7 years. The acquisition was indeed never happen, but Microsoft bought 1.6% stake or a total of U.S. $ 250 million. (Ash / ash)