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Facebook, the internationally known social-networking web site, has announced a deal bringing Digital Sky Technologies into the fold as a Facebook investor. The deal is structured as a purchase of USD 200 million in preferred stock, giving DST nearly a 2% stake in the company. Future plans, if realized, will see DST investing an additional [...]

Digital Sky Technologies, the leading Russian Internet investor has acquired a minority stake in WinNER. The investment is said to be worth USD 0.5 million and will broaden the company’s subscription-based real estate database to an online market in Russia. WinNER (www.bazar-winer.ru) Having grown to 10,000 subscribers, Moscow-based WinNER was founded in 2000. Operating as [...]

South African media group Naspers, which first purchased a stake in Russia’s mail.ru in January 2007, has made an additional purchase and is now the majority stock holder. The latest deal was valued at approximately USD 25 million, and combined with the first purchase at USD 165 million, Naspers total investment is estimated in the [...]

A group of international investment firms have acquired minority stakes in the Estonian job website CV Keskus. GILD Bankers advised the company on the transaction to invest more capital into the fledgling company. Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IV, Digital Sky Technologies Limited and Bexley International Investments Limited became active investors with the goal of [...]