Comments on: Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace?

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By: charlie

charlie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:29:24 +0000

MYSPACE SUX I SAY GOOGLE BUY IT

By: mohima

mohima — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:40 +0000

what is the bebo addy when the teachers blocked the normal bebo plz tell me

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La música tira — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:16:43 +0000

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By: Vijay Kumar Mandava

Vijay Kumar Mandava — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0000

Google through its Orkut, and Myspace both have strong market share in social networking space. They do not have any urget need to acquire one more player in the same field.

News Corporation, owner of Myspace, already told that they were not in the race for any soecial media company either it is Yahoo! or Bebo.

It is not a luxury thing: as the article mentioned Google would show up its potential by acquiring Bebo, while its campetetor Microsoft is acquiring Yahoo!. It is a business, they need look for the synergies that they are getting through the deal. Instead of Bebo, Google can put the money ($1 billion – $1.5 billion) for one more technology revolution.

So I sum up as,

If Bebo is the takeover target, acquirer would be some other company not the above both.

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By: mISS-sHOWsTOPPaH

mISS-sHOWsTOPPaH — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:38:11 +0000

hahahaha bebo roxz Soxx So Yeah if google buys it dan it will be public at skull we wudnt need tah go through proxy sites….:):)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:52:36 +0000

It’s probably definitely gonna be Bebo! I’m a very active user and all of the sudden these Google advertisements pop up on our pages from no where so I’m assuming they are setting things up! I really hope this doesn’t happen!!!!!!

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:54:35 +0000

It is what it is: a rumor.

The point of saying there is a 50 percent chance of this being true is to try to communicate our confidence in the rumor. That is, we are not as confident as we normally are about these things, but feel it is more likely than not to be true. For that reason, we’ve updated the chance of the rumor being true to 51 percent.

But don’t get stuck on the number.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:02:13 +0000

A stupid rumor that will die with this article…

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:02:08 +0000

Are you sure it’s Bebo and not Hi5 or imeem?

Google would likely do well with something like imeem or Bebo for a higher-value US presence (imeem). I echo Erick’s description of the value of bebo

MySpace would do well with something like Hi5 as Hi5 beats Orkut in most Latam countries.

By: Prasid

Prasid — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:16:32 +0000

Acquiring Bebo would give MySpace the technology to work simultaneously on the Facebook & OpenSocial Application Platforms. That might jump-start efforts to support both.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:54:37 +0000

I’m really starting to thinking TC has jumped the shark. 50% chance? Worse than a weatherman. Can I have the 5 mins of my life back I just wasted on reading your post?

By: rubu

rubu — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:41:02 +0000

I can understand why MySpace would like to buy bebo – gives them better starting point in the future battle of social networks , which will start eventually when the Google open social will have critical mass.

By: Dyde

Dyde — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:51:57 +0000

If Google pays 1bn for Bebo, they’re dumber than MS. Heck, half of accounts on Bebo are fake. What is Google trying to achieve by buying Bebo. They can spend quarter of that to organically grow Gmail+Google Profiles.

By: Sean Spurr

Sean Spurr — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:17:18 +0000

Bebo worth $1.5 billion – obviously not. I know it’s inaccurate, but alexa doesn’t even put bebo in it’s top 100 sites.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:02:30 +0000

Note to self: All TechCrunch headlines that end with a question mark can be followed with the word “No.”

Bebo is looking for financing at a $1bn+ valuation with Google and News Corp as potential investors. It is not up for sale.

By: Arona

Arona — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:08:24 +0000

Bebo is way different from Orkut, if you can’t see that then don’t comment on this rumnour.

Bebo is a pure UK socnet. Users are 13-25. Its not a small site, but 1 billion is way off the mark)))))

By: charlie

charlie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:52:42 +0000

what is a “bebo”

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:38:50 +0000

Well..Solid 50% would mean..

1. Solid Yes
2. Solid No