Who will Facebook buy next? Paddy Power serves up the odds

Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

Betting firm Paddy Power has opened the betting on Facebook’s next acquisition following the social networks purchase of photo-sharing app Instagram. The early favourite in the betting is mobile phone location service Foursquare at 4/1 followed by note taking service Evernote at 9/2 and web based file hosting service Dropbox at 5/1. Elsewhere, music streaming […]

Betting firm Paddy Power has opened the betting on Facebook’s next acquisition following the social networks purchase of photo-sharing app Instagram. The early favourite in the betting is mobile phone location service Foursquare at 4/1 followed by note taking service Evernote at 9/2 and web based file hosting service Dropbox at 5/1.


Elsewhere, music streaming service Spotify is priced at 7/1 to become part of the Facebook empire while sound-file sharing site Audioboo and blogging platform Tumblr are available at 16/1 and 25/1 respectively.
The long shots in the betting are video sharing site YouTube, social networking sites MySpace and Friends Reunited which are all available at an unlikely 40/1.
Next Facebook Acquisition
4/1 Foursquare
9/2 Evernote
5/1 Dropbox
7/1 Spotify
8/1 Pinterest
16/1 Rara
16/1 Audiboo
25/1 Tumblr
25/1 Flickr
40/1 YouTube
40/1 MySpace
40/1 Friends Reunited
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