Comments on: Facebook's $200M Cash Cushion May Be a Lifeline

By: Amelia Dittig

Amelia Dittig — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:41:44 +0000

I don’t understand how my $68 went down to $4 tonight when I logged on and played Farmville. Please tell me where my money went. Amelia dittig

By: Frothy Times for Web Angel Investing

Frothy Times for Web Angel Investing — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:44:21 +0000

[...] shares, led by Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies, which has made deals to buy common stock in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. Those companies are part of a small pack that see active secondary market [...]

By: No Discount on Groupon for New Investors

No Discount on Groupon for New Investors — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:18:58 +0000

[...] had previously given Zynga $180 million and Facebook $200 million (or possibly $300 million, according to a report that it re-upped to buy more employee shares). [...]

By: Will Zynga Use $180 MM Funding For Shopping

Will Zynga Use $180 MM Funding For Shopping — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:23:11 +0000

[...] in fresh funding from Digital Sky Technologies (D.S.T), a Russian investment firm that first made a splash with a $200 million investment in Facebook this summer. The news was reported in today’s The New York [...]

By: Will Zynga Use $180 MM Funding For Shopping – GigaOM

Will Zynga Use $180 MM Funding For Shopping – GigaOM — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:51:16 +0000

By: Facebookers Can Cash Out, Sell Shares to Russians :

Facebookers Can Cash Out, Sell Shares to Russians : — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:26:39 +0000

[...] a house in (East) Palo Alto. Russian investment house Digital Sky Technologies, which previously invested $200 million into the social networking giant, is in the process of making a tender offer for an additional $100 [...]

By: Facebookers Can Cash Out Their Shares to Digital Sky

Facebookers Can Cash Out Their Shares to Digital Sky — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:59:31 +0000

By: Ideal » Archive du blog » Facebook peut-il réussir son pari ? Peut-être…

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:35:57 +0000

[...] Traduction : parler d’EBITDA est une supercherie qui ne trompe pas les observateurs avisés (Facebook’s 0M Cash Cushion May Be a Lifeline). Au final, et jusqu’à preuve du contraire, Facebook est pour le moment une grosse machine [...]

By: Facebook peut-il réussir son pari ? Peut-être… | MKT planet - News Web Marketing - Nouvelles Technologies

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:05:31 +0000

[...] Traduction : parler d’EBITDA est une supercherie qui ne trompe pas les observateurs avisés (Facebook’s $200M Cash Cushion May Be a Lifeline). Au final, et jusqu’à preuve du contraire, Facebook est pour le moment une grosse machine [...]

By: Facebook peut-il réussir son pari ? Peut-être… | FredCavazza.net

Facebook peut-il réussir son pari ? Peut-être… | FredCavazza.net — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:07 +0000

By: william

william — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:28:37 +0000

facebook is a closed source content trap that takes from developers, members and their commnites and gives nothing in return…The “Value” of the the facebook “Technology” is far exceeded by the value of the content,development, and engagement time of its members. And for this value facebook is worth billions and the members, developers, and community that have given them this value receive nothing but rude childish behavior from the facebook “boy” king.

If Facebook is worth 10 billion; what precetage of this value comes from the members ?

Oh….on the payment system that they are building….We have had this in place for about a year….and when we were thinking of revenue models, we put the members in the equation first. …It is not how you the company can extract wealth and value from your members; it is more about how you can give your members an equitable portion of the value that they bring.

By: valuation man

valuation man — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:04:33 +0000

Server costs Vs manpower costs is the key. They can layoff to cut costs, once all developments “over”.

By: David Subar

David Subar — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:38:52 +0000

The $100M for stock buy back may not be for keeping personnel happy. it may be instead to avoid tripping the cap on number of private shareholders the SEC says a company can have before it is forced to publicly disclose its finances.

“A private company must report its finances once it has more than 500 common shareholders–or stock-option holders–and $10 million in assets, according to section XII(g) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. That means a private company must file quarterly forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that disclose operating expenses, profits, partnerships, shareholders and many other details–a laborious process that can cost as much as $2 million annually.”, according to http://news.cnet.com/SEC-rule-may-nudge-Google-toward-IPO/2100-1030_3-5119504.html

Google apparently faced this issue, too.

By: Notable News From the Tech World

Notable News From the Tech World — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:02 +0000

[...] do need to figure out how to make money sooner rather than later — unless they want to pull a Facebook and start selling off chunks of the company to finance [...]

By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:31:42 +0000

Facebook just introduced a new photo storage system they call Haystack that allows them to use commodity blades instead of the NetApp gear. The FB engineering team has written about this:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919

By: virtual online worlds for kids

virtual online worlds for kids — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:12:55 +0000

thats.. alot of money..