{"id":6715,"date":"2007-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"facebook-in-talks-with-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/facebook-in-talks-with-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook in talks with investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  News.com.au &#8211; FACEBOOK, the social network website, is holding discussions with hedge funds and private-equity investors to raise $US260 million ($286 million) in financing, the Wall Street Journal  reported overnight.<\/p>\n<p>  The report of the talks for additional funding comes a day after Microsoft announced it would pay $US240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>  The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, citing people familiar with the matter, said an announcement of additional funding could be just several days away.<\/p>\n<p>  Facebook was not immediately available to comment.<\/p>\n<p>  Microsoft&#8217;s deal valued Facebook at $US15 billion.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,23636,22651653-462,00.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com.au &#8211; FACEBOOK, the social network website, is holding discussions with hedge funds and private-equity investors to raise $US260 million ($286 million) in financing, the Wall Street Journal reported overnight. The report of the talks for additional funding comes a [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}