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If Facebook's lawyers are worth their salaries, they have an out. They might incur a penalty, but if a simple walk-away isn't in the deal, multiple people will
by dsl 14y ago
If Facebook's lawyers are worth their salaries, they have an out. They might incur a penalty, but if a simple walk-away isn't in the deal, multiple people will get canned.
I suspect the FTC is looking long and hard at the Andreessen Horowitz connection. Even if Marc recused himself, the price tag being 1000x the companies actual "value" (think sane business people outside the valley here) and the fact that FB took out a loan against its IPO income to fund the deal both scream dirty dealings to investigators.
- AVTizzle 14y agoWow - I thought I'd heard about this deal from every angle over the last few weeks since the deal, but for some reason I hadn't heard or considered your point about the AH connection. Really interesting point.
- loceng 14y agoI wrote a blog post about this (http://mattamyers.tumblr.com/post/22070489398/re-how-twitters-secret-offer-for-instagram-made http://mattamyers.tumblr.com/post/22070489398/re-how-twitter...) which included a link to an article enttiled Instagram-scam? That can article can be found at http://www.donnaklinenow.com/investigation/instagram-scam http://www.donnaklinenow.com/investigation/instagram-scam
- ig1 14y agoPrice has nothing to do with it, government regulators get to decide on things like antitrust not on the price one company buys another for.
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