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Is Facebook Really Worth $50 billion?

Created by : Puja Sarkar, Software Developer , Softpal Technologies Pvt Ltd  | 01 04 2011 12:22:40 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : USA(Markets)
Keywords : facebook goldman sachs digital sky facebook 50 billion valuation
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An injection of $500 million in cash that values Facebook at $50 billion represents an emphatic endorsement of its potential to make money in online social networking.  The infusion from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in Internet properties places the value of the company at twice that of the Internet giant Yahoo and about equal to that of such well-established corporate names as Boeing and Kraft Foods on the open market.

What do you think people, Is Facebook really worth $50 billion?? share your views on this....

  
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As Facebook nears the seventh anniversary of its founding in a Harvard dorm room, it is slightly more mature than Google was when it went public, in 2004. At the time, investors placed Google's value at $24 billion. Google's market value now is nearly $200 billion.  Facebook has swelled to more than 500 million users, about half of whom log in on a given day. Each month, they share more than 30billion links, notes, photos and other types of content. Facebook "Like" buttons are everywhere online.

Facebook is free and makes money by selling highly targeted ads. An increasing number of investors think it is destined to become a marketing bonanza. It has cemented its place as the king of social media, much as Google did for online search.  So this 50 billion valuation makes sense...
By Puja Sarkar, Software Developer , Softpal Technologies Pvt Ltd  01 04 2011 12:22:40 +0000
 
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in my point ... they are not ..coz you know the click through rate in facebook is much less when compared with myspace. and other social media site which is purel based on text basis.. where as in facebook there are lot more interactive things... which makes people to click on the ads in a very less ratio.. obviously facebook, lives only through ads.. humm and there other source of income is banner ads.. and the money they get from microsoft... and other organisations.. which really make everyone to think that facebook is really making a huge money.. but the fact is .. they are making some decent money.. and the experts in facebook, or conducting lot more research , on how to make people to click on the ads.. .. so i wont buy facebook , untill they do some changes in their site infrastructure... coz i dont want to serve 500 million users merely without getting anything :P ... i wont buy it, if i have that much money...
By shivabharathy , Webmaster, Organic Apex  01 04 2011 18:53:58 +0000
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May be! GOD knows & if it is so, then they should something for account security.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 01 06 2011 05:40:32 +0000
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It can be, because in India itself, children who have not completed HSC but they have FACEBOOK account. Business houses also accepted, today effective awareness about product/services, marketing are on social networking sites like facebooks. It can be possible to have a worth of $50 bn.
By ravindra g rathod, MBA/PGDM student, symbiosis institute of telecom management  | 01 05 2011 19:37:39 +0000
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Of course it really does make sense for facebook to have worth $50 billion. I do agree with you.
By Sairam. M, System Administrator  | 01 05 2011 13:58:36 +0000
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If media is airing this, it could be true. I cant trust on media but should support facebook.
By Anand Sharma, Monitoring the research funded by DIT, Department of Information Technology  | 01 05 2011 05:21:51 +0000
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facebook has never compromised consumer experience for ads. That has made it a platform for 500M users. Advertisers and others will follow
By Ravi Pratap, Co-Founder, TooStep  | 01 05 2011 04:44:45 +0000
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Yes ofcourse it worth, more than that. They are coming with Video based Xchange Applications and Interactive things. :)
By Nagesh Mekala, Director - BD, Dextical  | 01 04 2011 13:21:20 +0000
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No, it is not. This is one of the most ridiculous deal by Goldman Sachs, an Investment Mistake one should never make See the brief but sharp viewpoint of "EquityMaster".. I am sharing the Link here.

http://www.equitymaster.com/5MinWrapUp/detail.asp?date=1/6/2011&story=5&title=An-investment-mistake-one-should-never-make
By Veejay Bhatia, Administration Manager / Recruitment Coordinator, French Firm dealing in Oil & Gas, Dubai (UAE)  | 01 26 2011 21:08:13 +0000
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Value of a orgniazation is a virtual senario nowdays. untill it belongs to core industry.
By Sandeep Sahni, Project Manager, V2 Solutions  | 01 09 2011 16:30:36 +0000
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FB need to emphasize more on account security aspect of an individual/grp. They should have come up with such features till now as the number of users are growing by minute all over the world.
By Omkar V. Pawaskar, Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer, Alfa Laval India Ltd.  | 01 06 2011 05:03:40 +0000
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No I don't think it is justified. Reason again with the insufficient security.
By mohammed waquar ahmed, Freelancer, Communications and Networking  | 01 05 2011 07:33:37 +0000
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