That Facebook Kid Is Going to Be Filthy Rich

—By Jonathan Stein

| Tue Sep. 25, 2007 7:39 AM PDT

Online community and major time-waster Facebook is reportedly considering selling five percent of the company to Microsoft for $300 million to $500 million. That puts the value of Facebook at $10 billion.

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