Yahoo Woos a Social Networking Site
By SAUL HANSELL, New York Times
Published: September 22, 2006
Excerpt: Mark Zuckerberg is a member of the Google generation, one too young to remember all the ambitions dashed and fortunes lost when the last dot-com boom ended.
Online Socializers That may be one reason Mr. Zuckerberg, the 22-year-old founder of Facebook, a social networking Web site, has so far shied away from selling his company, rejecting offers that would have made him several hundred million dollars.
...When Viacom offered $750 million for Facebook in January, he asked for $2 billion and was rebuffed, according to a person involved in the negotiations. Now, he remains undecided about the latest offer, made in the last few weeks by Yahoo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/
technology/22facebook.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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