Monday, January 3, 2011

Mail.ru Group and Goldman Sachs Invested In Facebook $500 Million



Russian internet company Mail.ru Group (formerly Digital Sky Technologies) and the U.S. banking group Goldman Sachs have invested in the social network site Facebook $ 500 million. Goldman Sachs invested $450 million, and the rest  invested Mail.ru Group, Associated Press informed referring to the newspaper "The New York Times".


Neither a U.S. bank, nor the Russian company and Facebook give comments on this deal. It is noted that Mail.ru Group had already invested about half a billion dollars on Facebook. In addition, Goldman Sachs has the right to sell its stake in the social network of up to $ 75 million in favor of Mail.ru Group.

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