pan_peter

They should outline the cost upfront including attorneys, filing, outside auditing and other regulatory fees.

I'd say treat facebook like Compuserve or Iomega.

Social networks live by the sword of voyeurism and die by the sword of voyeurism. This is not something Google has to worry about.

So has AOL, friendster and MySpace I heard. Different DNA than Google and based on the foundation of voyeurism with text entry boxes cut and pasted from MySpace, who cut and pasted them from friendster and the list goes on. You don't cut and paste algorithmic search technology.

Information arbitrage is also a factor. Here's an interesting case study using the Jan 3rd $75B Celgene acquisition 'Generating Alpha from Information Arbitrage in the Financial Markets with NLP Datasets: 水涨船高' https://hackernoon.com/profiting-from-information-arbitrage-...