Blog posts tagged "Goldman Sachs"

January 22, 2011 12:15 am 1 Comment

As was speculated, and debated at great length on Channel 4 News two weeks ago, Facebook with the help of Goldman Sachs and Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies has raised $1.5bn to fund future growth on a valuation of $50bn.

January 5, 2011 3:49 pm 2 Comments

I turned up on BBC Radio 4 today, coincidentally on one of my favourite listens, Steve Hewlett’s Media Show. While there I joked that deciding to leave Facebook and joining some other rival that might crop up in the future would be a like learning Esperanto and expecting your friends to understand you. I thought this was quite funny but also pretty accurate. Critics of my blog and my appearance on Channel 4 News argue that something else will pop-up and do to Facebook exactly what Google did to Yahoo. But they are so wrong.

January 4, 2011 3:44 pm 11 Comments

Our Technology Correspondent says that Facebook has changed millions of lives - and is the future of the web.