New Delhi:
Shopaholic alert. If chief Facebooker Mark Zuckerberg wants to spend his millions buying up WhatsApp, Oculus and anything else available in the supermarket aisle marked 'technology,' who are we to say nay? In fact, we can think of a few things he might consider putting on his shopping list.
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Buckingham Palace: The Queen's household budget is down to her last million and she can't afford to keep the crumbling royal residence shipshape any longer, so a Zuck takeover might be given a warm welcome complete with tea and scones.
-The rights to <i>
The Social Network</i>
: That film. Hmph. Buy it up and junk it. Take that, Eduardo Saverin. Failing that, buy up a film company and make the Mark Zuckerberg version of The Social Network. Strictly not included in the cast - Jesse Eisenberg.
- A new wardrobe: We get it, Steve Jobs had his black polo-neck and Mark Zuckerberg has his grey t-shirt. We have to say though, offence meant, that it wasn't half as boring seeing the late great Mr Jobs in his uniform as it is seeing Zuck in his. Buy some shirts, Mark, maybe even some suits. He has been known to put a suit on a few times - to marry fiancee Priscilla Chan (who takes up all of the closet space leaving Zuck just one drawer, we're told).
-The right to create a new country: Facebook's active users number a little over a billion - that's the population of India. The natural (of sorts) progression of events would be the creation of a virtual country, presided over by His Excellency Mark Zuckerberg and called The Great Wall of Facebook (yes we know the original of that is not a country but it's big enough to be one).
-Tickets to space: If the Winklevoss twins can, Zuck can. The Facebook boss' arch-nemeses have bought tickets on Virgin Galactic using Bitcoins.