{"id":10683,"date":"2009-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"russian-firm-buys-stake-in-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/russian-firm-buys-stake-in-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian firm buys stake in Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessandleadership.com &#8211; Just a year and a half after Microsoft paid US$240m for a 1.6pc stake in social-networking player Facebook, a Russian technology investor has paid US$200m for a 1.9pc stake in the company.        <\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft investment in September 2007 valued Facebook at US$15bn, while the latest investment from Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) values the company at around US$10bn.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian investment group founded in 2005 said it is even considering buying a further US$100m worth of shares in Facebook from existing investors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.businessandleadership.com\/marketing\/news\/article\/13821\/marketing\/russian-firm-buys-stake-in-facebook\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessandleadership.com &#8211; Just a year and a half after Microsoft paid US$240m for a 1.6pc stake in social-networking player Facebook, a Russian technology investor has paid US$200m for a 1.9pc stake in the company. The Microsoft investment in September 2007 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12278,12277,12280,8381,507,4504,5359,12273,12275,12276,12279,1422,12274],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-6pc","tag-digital-sky","tag-dst","tag-facebook","tag-investment-group","tag-investors","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-investment","tag-russian-investment","tag-russian-technology","tag-social-networking","tag-stake","tag-technology-investor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}