Investors scrambling for Facebook Shares

 

The online Network Facebook attracts droves of investors. The U.S. Investment bank Goldman Sachs, which enable its customers currently have the initial expressions of interest received several billion dollars, reported the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Already on Thursday the offer should therefore be terminated.

Goldman Sachs had agreed Facebook an investment of 450 million dollars (341 million euros) and gets reported to have a shareholding of 0.8 percent. Over a up to 1.5 billion dollar fund will also can create the customer of the bank at the world's largest social network money.

The investors have assailed Goldman, since the business had become known over the weekend. It mostly did have acted as wealthy private clients, it said. Investors must, according to media reports at least $ 2,000,000 put into the Internet business, they must also agree to willing to not sell their shares before the year 2013. This massive equity business outside the stock exchange, already have called on the SEC's financial plan. The SEC thus check whether the rules should be tightened for business outside of the parquet.

Facebook is one of the fastest growing Internet companies all over with now more than 550 million members. This makes online Network for the advertising industry interesting. The total value of the fledgling company after the Goldman- Investment to around 50 billion dollars (37.8 billion €) is estimated.

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