Monday, May 14, 2012

Hong Kong billionaire, bought a stake in Facebook


According to Reuters, citing an anonymous source familiar with the fund of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka- Sing Li Ka Shing Foundation has invested in the popular social networking site Facebook U.S. $ 60 million. Earlier last year, the Ka -sing allocated for the purchase of shares in the network the same amount. Thus, at present the Ka -sing owns 0.8% stake in Facebook worth U.S. $ 120 million.





Facebook service earned in 2004. Currently service has about 50 million registered users, and the number of subscribers continues to grow. Now social networking site Facebook is in second place in popularity, second only to MySpace service.





Last year, the shares of Facebook, Microsoft acquired. Under the agreement, Microsoft paid for 1.6% stake in Facebook 240 million U.S. dollars. It is easy to calculate that the market value of Facebook is now valued at $ 15 billion.





Newly -old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, said that over the next year plans to expand the staff of the social network. If you are on Facebook with about three hundred people, then to the end of next year, the number of employees is expected to grow to seven hundred have.





net. compulenta. ru.

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