Russian Firm Buys a Stake in Facebook
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: May 26, 2009
A Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, has invested $200 million in the social networking company Facebook in return for a 1.96 percent stake, the two companies said Tuesday....
Digital Sky Technologies is a prominent Internet investor in Russia and Europe, where it owns stakes in Web companies that account for 70 percent of all page views on the Russian-speaking Internet, according to the firm.
Its portfolio companies include two large social networks, Forticom and vKontakte, and a Russian Web portal, Mail.ru....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/te...gl3lf5i9Ow6D/g
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