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SAN FRANCISCO, KOMPAS.com - Valuation Facebook now higher than Internet giants like Yahoo Inc. and eBay Inc. A source who knows the issue, said the company values the social networking site was raised after attract an investment of 500 million U.S. dollars from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment company.
While the source of the New York Times whisper, Goldman Sachs will invest 450 million U.S. dollars. While the Digital Sky Technologies (DST) will invest 50 million U.S. dollars.
Value Facebook will rise even higher. The reason, according to sources who declined to be named, the two companies planned to increase its investment to a minimum of 1 billion U.S. dollars.
Facebook and Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the deal. While the Digital Sky Technologies also not be reached for confirmation.
Clearly, this investment shows the confidence of investors over the future of Facebook as the company closed that could match Yahoo and eBay. Note course, Yahoo is a company that already take the floor on the stock.
Managing Director of Lightspeed Venture Partners Jeremy Liew said, Facebook will get benefit with a rake in fresh funds from private companies rather than raise money from stock offerings. According to him, one of the benefits, the company was crafted by Mark Zuckerberg could escape the attention of market players.
Just, Liew said the Facebook keep will offer their shares to the public. "I do not think the investment is to replace their stock offerings. I thought it was just a mechanism to postpone it," he said.
Just to remind, in September last, one of the directors of Facebook, Peter Thiel, said the company may offer its shares or initial public offering (IPO) until the end of 2012.
Facebook is one Web company that developed rapidly along with Groupon, Zynga, and Twitter. The number of users is increasing and many companies that want to advertise on the web company. Many companies are interested in becoming an investor and will feel the benefits such as Google. ( KONTAN / Dwi Nur oktaviani)
Source: KONTAN
Editor: Tri Wahono
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