Facebook has received large investments from venture firms
Facebook social network attracted additional investments of about $ 100 million, said Businessweek. The money resource administration intends to send to expand fleet of servers. This will help the network cope with the influx of new users.
As noted by Businessweek, over the past seven months, Facebook has already attracted approximately 360 million dollars (along with the latest "infusion" - 460 million).
The source was the last 100 million Venture Capital Company TriplePoint Capital, which specializes in financial support from start.
According to experts interviewed by Businessweek, Facebook currently uses about 10 thousand servers, and new investment will enable the purchase as early as five times more. Thus social network will provide a technological "space to grow" in the next two years if the present dynamics. According to comScore, over the past year worldwide audience Facebook has grown threefold, exceeding the mark in the 109 million users. So that the resource is already experiencing the most is that either the urgent need to expand technical base.
It remains to add that emerged last week about plans to try Microsoft perekupit Facebook. If this transaction is held, for Microsoft it will become a sort of comforting pill following the recent unsuccessful attempt to gain control over Yahoo.