Facebook valued at $65 billion in new investment (Reuters)

Friday, March 4, 2011 6:01 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Investment concern General ocean is finance in Facebook, valuing the directive ethnic network at $65 billion, representing a 30 proportionality increase from its terminal big investment in January, according to a report on CNBC.

General ocean is purchase a country of roughly 2.5 meg Facebook shares from past Facebook employees, giving the concern a 0.1 proportionality wager in the company, CNBC said.

The deal, which has not closed and requires support from Facebook, would provide General ocean a 0.1 proportionality wager in Facebook, according to the report.

General ocean declined to interpret on the reports. Facebook did not immediately return requests for comment.

In January, Facebook said it had upraised $1.5 1000000000 from investors including Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, as well as through a clannish offering to foreign investors conducted by Goldman Sachs, at a appraisal of roughly $50 billion.

Facebook is the world's No.1 Internet ethnic network with more than 500 meg users.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Bernard Orr.)


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