{"id":467,"date":"2009-05-27T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-05-27T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:57:49","slug":"facebook-gets-russian-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/27\/facebook-gets-russian-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook gets Russian investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm, is <a title=\"investing $200 million\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2009\/05\/facebook-looks-to-digital-sky-for-help-with-revenue-potential-abroad.html\" target=\"_blank\">investing $200 million<\/a> for a 1.96-percent stake in the social networking site Facebook.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N.Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says this won&#8217;t challenge Microsoft&#8217;s investment in Facebook which is more of a strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm, is investing $200 million for a 1.96-percent stake in the social networking site Facebook.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N.Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says this won&#8217;t challenge Microsoft&#8217;s investment in Facebook which is more of a strategic partnership. Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, venkat@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1045,19,682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}