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美国著名校园社交网站“脸谱”(Facebook)创始人马克?朱克伯格今年只有22岁，但已被称为IT业“下一个比尔?盖茨”。据报道，朱克伯格拒绝了互联网巨头雅虎公司开出的10亿美元收购价。而据内部文件透露，雅虎有可能将收购价提升至16亿美元。
Web kid with attitude says sucks to $1bn
AT 22, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout, is being labelled as the next Bill Gates. But even the Microsoft founder might have hesitated before blowing the chance of a $1.6 billion (￡819m) offer for his fledgling business.
Zuckerberg, founder of the Facebook social networking website, has told Yahoo!, the internet giant, that $1 billion is not enough to sell out. Now leaked documents suggest that Yahoo! was willing to raise its bid to $1.6 billion.
Facebook, which he launched as a service for Harvard students in 2004, has become the seventh busiest website on the internet, and with 13m users is the second biggest social network in America.
It has also become popular on British campuses, partly because it allows users to ensure that only people from their own university or place of work are put in touch.
Yahoo!’s $1.6 billion valuation of Facebook assumed that its rapid growth would continue until 2015, according to documents leaked to TechCrunch, a Silicon Valley blog.
In the UK it trails the market leaders, MySpace and Bebo. MySpace is owned by News Corporation, parent company of The Sunday Times.
Yahoo! declined to comment on the leaked documents. It is highly unusual for such sensitive financial information to become public. The company’s news, e-mail and entertainment services make it the world’s biggest web business when measured by pages viewed.
词汇：
dropout：n. 中途退学, 辍学学生
fledgling：adj. 年轻的或无经验的
leak：vt. 泄漏
trail：vt.跟在…后面
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