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New Facebook Investment Implies a $50 Billion Valuation

Will Goldman Sachs be the one to take Facebook public in 2012?

By Jeremy Geelan
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January 3, 2011 08:00 AM EST
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The New York Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs has invested $450 million in Facebook, with the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which has already invested $500 million in Facebook, investing $50 million more. The new half-billion round of investment, says the Times, values the company at $50 billion.



The news comes just days after Facebook overtook Google as the most visited Web site in 2010, according to the Internet tracking firm Experian Hitwise.

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