Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will.
But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site.
In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover of Facebook your own version of an IPO, as John Furrier has suggested, and walk away a Silicon Valley legend.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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