Last week, BlackBerry executives flew to California to meet with Facebook, urging the social networking giant to consider buying the beleaguered smartphone pioneer, report Will Connors and Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal. "It remains unclear whether Facebook is interested in placing a bid," they add, but "the meeting could reignite speculation that Facebook is building its own smartphone." There are reportedly other parties expressing interest — among them: China's Lenovo, Cerberus Capital Management, Cisco, even Google — but a fair offer from Facebook would be bigger news. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly dismissed the idea of Facebook building its own phone, but there are plenty of reasons a real Facebook Phone — not Facebook Home on an Android device — would make sense.



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