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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by goto meeting is a $99 xbox 360 coming with a two-year contract is Facebook prepping to add video chat capabilities to their messenger app for iOS and speaking of Facebook are they hitting the road in preparation for the long awaited IPO which might be coming in just a couple of weeks let's find out or at least you know make stuff up about all this stuff it's techno Buffalo's rumor roundup run them up hey what is going on everybody and welcome to the roundup it's rumor roundup TechnoBuffalo on revision3 my name is Noah Kravitz and I'm editor large with TechnoBuffalo and this is your roundup of the week's tech rumors for the week ending today Friday May fourth 2012 could contract subsidized pricing beheaded from the cell phone world to the video game world could be as crazy as it sounds our own senior video game editor joey davidson reported earlier this week that microsoft may be gearing up to launch a new xbox 360 bundle as early as next week the bundle would include an xbox 360 and it connect and sell for ninety-nine dollars if and here's the big if you also sign up for two years worth of xbox live gold service at fifteen bucks a month though there are a bunch of reports kicking around as relates to this story and most of them speculate that in addition to the standard xbox live gold service customers purchasing this bundle in the two-year contract would get access to some additional services possibly streaming media an xbox live now you can already watch content from netflix or espn3 or all kinds of providers as long as you subscribe to their services so it could be that Microsoft has some kind of deals for video content in the works video you can buy direct through Xbox Live and then of course there's the speculation that Microsoft is gearing up to launch a new version a new iteration of their zune music service code named Woodstock which would reside almost entirely on xbox live or at least the center it would be Xbox Live and would also have multiple apps for mobile and desktop platforms so maybe there's some kind of bundle involving Woodstock I don't know maybe something involving Snoopy peppermint patty Linus that's a bad pun whatever the case is in Joey's reporting he was quick to point out although he also was quick to give credit because he didn't do the math himself that polygon did the cocktail napkin math and figured out that if you were to walk into a store and buy the xbox kinect bundle plus plunked down for two years of xbox live gold service you would be spending about four hundred and twenty dollars american if you add up the cost of ninety nine dollars plus fifteen dollars a month x 24 months you were paying about four hundred sixty dollars again we don't know what might be happening and that's why this is a rumor show because we speculate about stuff i think what they're going to do is they're going to buy amazon except that apple's going to buy both amazon and microsoft and so when you sign up for this thing not only do you get xbox live gold but you also get two years of amazon prime but you can only use the service to buy Apple products that's what right here that's my new rumor you can see my head so big full of ideas we'll be back in a moment with some news on facebook or you know some rumor news on facebook after this word from our friends at goto meeting hi hey how's it going hey do man I'm doing okay so no one's talking about the Microsoft would stock xbox effing am I don't know anything about Xbox I don't have one cross-platform music streaming I don't play console games I do play computer games though what no console games none i have mins until you've got your halo on are you thinking what I'm thinking oh yeah starcraft already had it open i'm a baller like that alright multiplayer dude i always have it oh go good also got myself on the ipad we just started on the ipad here i see so me I see John quach and I see Steve so wait so one is your 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techno back to Noah alright we're back with some speculation newsroom or speculation whatever we're going to round it up as pertains to Facebook we've got some reports about the future of Facebook Skype powered video chat service in particular it may be coming to a mobile device near you very soon reports that stemmed from nine to five mac.com say that Facebook is readying a new version of its iOS client for iphone and ipod touch that will include the first-ever mobile application of facebook's video chat apparently somebody from nine to five max said that they've been testing the apps out they got hold of them somehow and that they run very well very smooth again this is not the facebook app at the facebook Messenger app which currently is a separate app from the main facebook app apparently once that's out Facebook will turn to Android and ready a video chat compatible version of facebook for android or facebook messenger for Android as well reports starting with the Wall Street Journal have made 18 pegged as the date that Facebook will go public and begin trading on the nasdaq under the stock ticker symbol FB apparently head face Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his cronies are hitting the road are getting ready to hit the road to do their IPO roadshow the target is to raise somewhere in the neighborhood of five billion dollars with the IPO Facebook is reportedly shooting for a 100 billion dollar valuation on the heels of the IPO the company has been doing about three billion dollars a year in ad revenue business with earnings up quite a bit somewhere in the neighborhood of 850 billion dollars or so of ad revenue for the quarter stay tuned and watch from the sidelines because if you're watching this show odds are you don't have the kind of coin that's necessary a little on the clout to get in on the IPO action but if you do you don't want to call me so next week my name is Noah crowds will be back with another installment of technobuffalo room around up next week till then remember no matter how frustrated you are don't punch a fire extinguisher with your hand it's not going to end well and as always when you see a rumor round it up see you next time