Comments on: Russian Investment Firm Poking Facebook For Board Seat

By: lies

lies — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:30:21 +0000

Nice place to stay.

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By: How the internet and social media are shaping the world , 77Lab

How the internet and social media are shaping the world , 77Lab — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:15 +0000

[...] death froze the media and caused a massive rush to the internet. Facebook continues to get ‘poked’ by DTS for a piece of the social network [...]

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By: Facebook data cost: Over Twenty Million - Geekazine.com

Facebook data cost: Over Twenty Million - Geekazine.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:33:44 +0000

[...] today from Techcrunch.com wrote that Facebook.com, the world’s most popular social network is receiving potential offer of a $200 million stake from Russian investment firm “Digital Sky [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:21:27 +0000

But Robin they’re not investing $8B or $10B, that’s just the valuation. They’re only handing over $200M so they only had to “pay” $200M to get a board seat, and “valuation” is always changing anyway.

By: Itman

Itman — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:23:54 +0000

Man,
You better open your eyes. It is not Russia that threatens US now. The threat comes from Middle East and China. Stop living in the last century.

By: Facebook Takes That $200 Million Investment From The Russians At A $10 Billion Valuation.

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:31:10 +0000

[...] stake in the company, giving Facebook a $10 billion valuation. Facebook ultimately did not have to give up a board seat to DST in return for the [...]

By: Iwan

Iwan — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:37:09 +0000

>> vKontakte is almost a one-to-one copy of Facebook (incl. some source code and the design)

Have you actually seen the site? I guess not.

By: Robin Wauters

Tue, 26 May 2009 10:40:30 +0000

The thing is, the $8 billion investment offer was rejected solely based on the board seat requirement according to our sources. A $1 offer would be rejected because it’s too low and all that.

By: Serg

Serg — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:06:52 +0000

step 1. hire some indians to build some cheap copy of facebook. step 2. host it ON A RENTED SERVER of some hosting company, not try and be all google type shit and build your own “datacenter”. step 3. slap some ads RIGHT AWAY throughout the site.

step 4…… laugh straight to the bank with all the money you just made

By: Serg

Serg — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:58:53 +0000

DTS is just putting on a front

By: Serg

Serg — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:56:20 +0000

Bring it fag, i will slice your throat like my grandfather sliced nazis, TWICE!

By: fedd

fedd — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:43:46 +0000

> The wars are won by BATHROOMS, the side that doesn’t use bathrooms with central heating – wins. I’m not kidding.

we in Russia do have heated bathrooms. so i guess facebook would reject.. )

By: fedd

fedd — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:19 +0000

> Post-Soviet countries have much less of that free-for-all, openEverything, share-the-pie-with-your-friends-and-enemies-alike mentality which has infested much of the Free World

including ‘America’ commenter here, hehe. lets look how the free world is ready to share

By: caligulazhang

caligulazhang — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:26:14 +0000

If this happens, then it’s time to kill the russian commie bastards again, which we will do.

And it will be the death of Facebook and social networking, which it will be.

As if 9/11 wasn’t enough, then Obama attempting to kill capitalism and industry in America… now the FUCKING RUSKIE MOTHERFUCKERS IN AMERICA.

THE WAR IS ON, RUSKIE MOTHERFUCKERS. YOU ARE GONNA DIE, COMMIES. THIS IS THE GUARANTEE OF YOUR COMMIE LIVES.
http://www.cust...N-VANCOUVER-BC/

By: Urso

Urso — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:14:18 +0000

The way math works! Who would say so?!

By: Urso

Urso — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:11:33 +0000

So, if all things been equal, the offer they turned down was USD 7bn, the seat was worth 3bn instead? This “straightforward math” does not add up… I will make an offer for 1 USD, just to make that a very expensive seat!!!

By: Nicholas James

Nicholas James — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:10:02 +0000

Unless Facebook desperately need the $200million they’ll give a board seat away. Otherwise Zuckerberg will keep his stronghold of the board of directors

By: investment basics

investment basics — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:52:38 +0000

Such impact these new social media tools have. Facebook and Twitter are changing the way businesses work now

By: observer

observer — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:07:17 +0000

Here’s my $0.02 addition to this pool of amazingly uninformed commentary.

Apart from the obvious need for capital, another reason why Facebook might be interested in going to bed with DST is because most of DST social networking properties in the former Soviet space appear to be profitable while Facebook is not, or at least not yet.

If DST-owned social networking properties manage to make money in post-Soviet states where $10k GDP per capita is the norm, imagine what would happen if Facebook used the same strategies in a $45k GDP per capita economy. And DST might be the only ones to know how to get Facebook to be profitable in the developing world, where most of its growth is currently happening anyway.

Of course the markets where DST is currently operating ARE different from Facebook’s home base. Post-Soviet countries have much less of that free-for-all, openEverything, share-the-pie-with-your-friends-and-enemies-alike mentality which has infested much of the Free World – with notable exceptions of, well, Apple and Microsoft.

By: WarLocator.com

WarLocator.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:37:20 +0000

Social Media Wars over the next 5 years will obliterate Fadbook. one channel “social shoes” cannot fit all. its gonna take strategic niche multi channel networks to harness the full potential of social media.

YEAR 2015 : There is only one major social media player. MyLocator with 85% of business social media traffic online and mobile.

Why?
1. fadbk-users experience poke me gimmick burnout- users realize friends arent hiring, buying or selling. fb users are considered lazy time wasters. users disassociate in droves with 3 clicks of a mouse.

2. myspac- tricks are for kids-users mature and realize they are surrounded by kids 10-19 year olds. 20-40 year olds leave to get there lives back on track. social media detox.

3. MyLocator – becomes greatest strategic multichannel business social media empire ever created. dominates online and mobile business social media. social media wars are over and Goggl attempts to buy MyLocator to no avail. Googl, Microsft and fadbk merge in an attempt to compete. MyLocator now is the #1 Social Location Engine.

StrategyLocator.com – prepare yourself

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:58:46 +0000

I think it IS

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:57:50 +0000

… as f.i. AIG

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:53:57 +0000

Yep. This is very geeky… and republican… and 19-th century.
One thing you and your republican friends don’t understand is:
The wars are won by BATHROOMS, the side that doesn’t use bathrooms with central heating – wins. I’m not kidding.
You can assess all present and future war-related projects according to this criteria, broke geek “America”.

BTW, I live in America, because I took over a piece of real estate here many years ago; so, don’t expect that I can’t come to your house with a baseball bat (I love baseball).

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:48:12 +0000

Good point!