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Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanzuo.com

Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users.

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Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users.

According to The Times, Jack Zhang, Zhanzuo’s chief executive, and Mark Zuckerberg have been discussing the deal but it has not been accepted yet, with a spokesperson saying that the result of the talks will be disclosed towards the end of the month.

The acquisition would give Facebook a base from which it can tap into the growth in what will soon be the worlds largest online marketplace by user numbers.

Zhanzuo ranks in the Top 250 sites in China according to Alexa, but strangely both Alexa and Compete show a big drop in traffic for the site over July and August. Although Alexa may not be the most accurate metrics source, the massive drop for the site at once might suggest issues with governmental blocking; the site primarily operates on a .com domain as opposed to a .cn (.com’s are more regularly blocked or redirected), and there is no other logical explanation for the massive and immediate drop in traffic. I’d suspect that the site may find it has more problems in the future should it end up owned by Facebook.

Zhanzuo was funded by Sequoia China and Morningside Capital.

Update: as pointed out in the comments, the traffic dip might be related to users heading back to school…that’s one big dip, but I’m willing to accept it as an explanation. Certainly other Chinese companies operate on .com’s without problem, although it would be interesting to see how a social network such as Zhanzuo.com deals with censorship, particularly with 7 million users. Given the previous heated debate over Yahoo and China, it will be even more interesting again to see how Facebook deals with it if the takeover is successful.

难道Facebook 愿意花费8500万美元收购zhanzuo.com?占座(zhanzuo.com)是中文的社会化网络站点即SNS，有大约7百万的用户。原来外国人也会造谣。是占座的炒作？

　　北京时间11月20日消息，据国外媒体报道，美国社交网站Facebook一位代表周一下午表示，外界有关Facebook计划收购中国社交网站占座网的报道不具真实性，Facebook并没有制定此类计划。

　　英国《泰晤士报》网络版周一报道称，Facebook有意出价8500万美元收购占座网，并援引据称是Facebook发言人的话称，占座网CEO张帆和Facebook CEO马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)已相互认识，且“本月底可能就此披露更多消息”。但Facebook代表周一下午在一封电子邮件回复中表示：“Facebook并没有向占座网提出收购请求，目前Facebook还没有将任何一家中国企业视为收购目标。”

　　这位Facebook代表还表示，不清楚《泰晤士报》网络版报道中所提及Facebook发言人的真实身份，《泰晤士报》网络版也没有就这则报道的真实性与Facebook联系。

　　迄今为止，Facebook完成的主要收购活动仅为Parakey。Parakey为Firefox浏览器两位创始人布莱克·罗斯(Blake Ross)和乔·希维特(Joe Hewitt)组建的创业公司。但最近一直有传闻称，Facebook计划进入非英语国家市场，而收购其他网站将成为实现该目标的最佳方式。

　　分析人士称，即使Facebook已制定进入中国市场的计划，它同样也将在该市场面临竞争。Facebook主要竞争对手MySpace已于2006年推出中文版。另一家竞争对手Friendster虽然在美国市场不断被Facebook和MySpace抢走市场份额，但在亚洲市场却人气很高。前不久Friendster也推出了中文版。

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