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In the past many  people thought MarkZuckerberg crazy when he declined the offer of acquisition of Yahoo’s top social networking sites homemade up with the price of U.S. $ 1 billion. But in fact, although a bid has been doubled, Markstill refuses.

In 2007, Microsoft’s acquisition offer of U.S. $ 15 billion or around Rp 135 trillion, but still rejected. This information was revealed at a press conference on a web conference in Paris with the title “How to get acquired.”Senior Director of Strategy and Acquisitions Microsoft, FritzLanman, asserted that Microsoft had tried to acquire Facebook.”Yes we try to acquisitions, Facebook has a lot in common,” he said.

Then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer approached Mark Zuckerbergand offered U.S. $ 15 billion. Zuckerberg reportedly Ballmer replied by saying, “Why not us who buy your company for U.S. $ 15 billion?”

After the rejection, Microsoft made an investment of U.S. $ 240million (Rp 2.16 trillion) to up to partnerships such as the current search.

While there is cooperation with Microsoft, Zuckerberg refused to sell it the largest social networking site? “I do not want to sell the company, except if I can still continue to control it,” he said.