Facebook in talks to buy Opera to create "Facebook Browser"



momchil9 said:
That doesn't mean shit.

They merged. AOL did not aquire Time Warner.

You just don't make a difference between the two. If that was the case Time Warner would have stopped existing, which is clearly not the case.

See my previous post, I updated it.

I accept apologies.
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I will apologize to your mother for having child with zero sense of logic. If a company acquires another, it doesn't necessary mean that company will cease to exist. In your own example of Facebook acquiring Instagram, Zuckerberg states that Instagram will still exist separate from Facebook (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/mark-zuckerberg-instagram-facebook_n_1412780.html). When Volkswagen bought Audi from Mercedes Benz, the Audi brand did not cease to exist.

I am not going to lie momchil9, I like this back and forth, but if I were to agree with you, then we'd both be wrong. Good day sir.
 
lol, refusing to read, eh?

I see that's trending these days. Just read your own sources and you will see how wrong you are.

In their official documents it says "merger". That is what it is, no matter how much you will argue.

Read that again, it's not that hard. Maybe you will get it the 2nd time.

Distinction between mergers and acquisitions
The terms merger and acquisition mean slightly different things. The legal concept of a merger (with the resulting corporate mechanics, statutory merger or statutory consolidation, which have nothing to do with the resulting power grab as between the management of the target and the acquirer) is different from the business point of view of a "merger", which can be achieved independently of the corporate mechanics through various means such as "triangular merger", statutory merger, acquisition, etc. When one company takes over another and clearly establishes itself as the new owner, the purchase is called an acquisition. From a legal point of view, the target company ceases to exist, the buyer "swallows" the business and the buyer's stock continues to be traded.
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Just because people refer to it as "buying" that doesn't mean it's right. People thought the Earth was flat too.

But I just gotta love how your most credible source says it's a merger and yet, you insist it is not, lol.

Dude it's not shameful to be wrong. It is shameful to not admit you did a mistake and twist every way possible.
 
CCarter said:
This is a great and valid point. But you are still speaking as if Facebook is the end all be all to web development. There are companies and groups of people creating innovative technologies, outside the grasp Facebook, just like Facebook was outside the grasp of Google, and Google was outside the grasp of Microsoft.

The point was that you were coming to the conclusion, that Facebook will be the internet, touch all parts of the internet. Maybe, I doubt that will happen, since they are now public, and have to start churning out better Profit margins now. They will need to chill out with buying this and that, and start generating more profit for their investors, otherwise, their stock will continue it's downward tumble.
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I really think the political influence Facebook has can make them become even more ubiquitous than they already are.

Obviously this can't be proven at this time,

but Gambit's Magic Guru 8-Ball (TM) is saying:

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-Gambit
(Wickedfire Guru)
 
Is Mobile advertising really a cash cow? There seems more supply then demand.
Does FB have something up there sleeve, meaning it can pull more cash out of the mobile area then anyone has as of yet? (per user mobile)

When are they going to take on Adcents?
 
mituozo said:
Irrelevant. Users sign into FB, there's a pale yellow thing at the top saying "You don't appear to be using the FB browser, click here to download it for X features that make your life easier".

That'll vastly increase that 2% - almost a billion people use FB, that's more than 1/6 of the entire world.

The amount shared on Facebook is doubling every year.



Of course their growth is slowing down a bit though, there's only so many people using the internet, and only a certain proportion of those are ever going to be open to social networking.

FB growth is slowing down because the market itself is not expanding fast enough. (i.e. total number of internet users). Its primary market is people aged 18-35. There's only so many people with internet access in that demographic. They have 1 in 6 of every damn person in the world in their database.

You're just plain wrong on this, and clearly completely detached from Facebook's core demographic.

Anyone that quotes Myspace, or talks about decline or whatever else clearly isn't an avid user of Facebook, or see's what's going on. Every year I see more being shared on Facebook. Of those I went to school with, there's not a single person I'd want to communicate with, that I can't communicate with via Facebook and get a reply within a day, perhaps 2 max.

That kind of engagement is unprecedented by any previous web company. It's not going to disappear over night, and I'm yet to witness any decline.

We're seeing a stage of the net where things start to merge together, a consolidation phase as such. There'll be new and interesting start-ups still, but they'll focus on tackling new problems.

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Whilst crude illustrates how all the big social networks are different. Pinterest for example isn't a competitor, but it's a new thing that people are using in addition to other social networks.

Another social network akin to Facebook will not overthrow them, unless they royally cock up (massive law suits, country-wide bans, that kinda crap). The massive network Facebook has in place is just too big to hope to compete with.
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This is a fucking great post. Facebook is here to stay.

I actually think Pinterest is the current "Myspace" so to speak. It'll become too "niche specific" like Myspace and be replaced with a site that fills that specific "vertical" of human interactions on the web, while simultaneously cultivating a more broad appeal and integrating more seamlessly with FB...... .. .
 
facebook probably wont last that long... their share prices suck ass after their first week... imagine the rest of the business after the first year it has gone public...

you can bet dollars to donuts that mark will cash in and go work for google before it goes back to being worth zero.
 
If they take away my Opera I'll personally rape Zuckerberg with a broom stick. I'm not surprised they want to buy it and fuck it up though. It's the best browser out there.
 
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