Russian Investment Firm DST Now Owns 5% of Facebook

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Russian Investment Firm DST Now Owns 5% of Facebook

A couple of days ago, we wrote that Russian venture capital firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST) had invested around 180 million dollars in Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars.

The same group already invested $200 million in Facebook back in spring, which got them a 1.96 percent stake in the company, and now they've purchased another $200 million in common shares from Facebook's employees.

According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, DST bought the shares at $14.77 per share; altogether, this investment got them another 3 percent stake, which brings the total to around 5 percent.

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