Facebook more than Yahoo!

 


Shares of the largest in the world by number of users of social network Facebook is rapidly growing in price. Investors rush to buy them in advance out of the company at the exchange.

Now Facebook shares are traded only on the secondary market . Based on current prices ($ 76 per ordinary share) the cost of the entire company at $ 33.7 billion, although in June an American investment fund Elevation Partners acquired its shares, based on an assessment of 100% to $ 24 billion A Russian Digital Sky Technologies, Meeting on 10% Facebook in May 2009 are estimated its total to $ 10 billion

Now Facebook passes on the cost of such giants of Internet business, as eBay and Yahoo!.

Investors rush to buy shares of Facebook before she applied for a IPO. Analysts expect the IPO Facebook will be the largest deployment in the IT-market since 2004, when a public company became Google. However, this does not happen before 2012, made it clear itself Facebook.

Its employees and stockholders may sell their existing shares on the secondary market, and many use it. True, Facebook is trying to limit the scope of the trade: the law of its shareholders may not exceed 500. So far, according to informed sources, their much smaller, however the company is buying up part of the paper itself or delegate this right to existing co-owners such as Tiger Global.

Current quotes sources close to Facebook, consider excessive. The appeal is only a small number of shares, while investors do not even have a clear idea of the financial performance of the company, they explain. 

Facebook - a social network. ASOA has more than 500 million accounts.The co -owner the founder of the company ,headed by Mark Zukerberk and its employees ,the american billionaire Peter Theil ,Accel Parteners ,Microsoft ,Digital Sky Technology .Revenue (2010, forecast Facebook) - $ 1-1,1 billion

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Hollywood actor has appeared in advertising automobile oil Gazpromneft

 

Experts believe that with the name the actor is more than the sale will pay for the costs of the company.

Jason Statham is known for his roles in "The Transporter", "Adrenaline", "irresistible", and also works in the paintings of Guy Ritchie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels "and" Snatch ". Gazpromneft called the actor to shoot a clip to promote a new brand of the company - lube G-Energy. According to film producer Alexander Izotov, it's a good publicity stunt:

"Knowing Alexander Dyukov, the head of Gazpromneft, as a very creative, I'm not surprised that they invited so untwisted star fighters to advertise their product. This is an interesting and important word in advertising.

When selecting media character, it is important to consider not only his popularity, but also the extent to which people close to the people for whom the product is calculated. And in this case, getting more than accurate, I am sure the head of media practice of "Paynz End Merner Roman Tyshkovsky:

"Oils are buying men who own cars. These people tend to like films about race, militants. Here, from this point of view, quite correctly guessed the target audience. They know this person, so it has a certain credibility. To a man, who rides fast, which makes extensive use of machinery, he leads an active lifestyle, so they advertised product in the consumer's mind will be associated with the speed and adrenaline.

How Statham received for shooting in the video is not known. According to the Portal Life News, the actor's fee amounted to 100,000 euros. Two shooting days - in Moscow and the Czech Republic. By advertising standards, this is not a record amount, said Alexander Izotov:

"If this is true, it is the success of advertising managers Gazpromneft or agency that serves them. I think that this actor is more expensive. By some, perhaps, the reasons for such an amount of 100 thousand euros illuminated. But I think that figure should be much greater. "

Other celebrities who starred in the Russian advertising, earn more. For example, in 2006 in the video about the ketchup "Baltimore" played by Gerard Depardieu. According to the scenario he was eating his own hat. The fee amounted to 250 thousand dollars. . How, then, to write press, the athlete received 300 thousand dollars. A year later, one million dollars for participating in the campaign of vodka "Russian Ice" earned Sylvester Stallone.

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Apple iTV will be released in September and "change everything"

Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose), who is the founder of the famous portal of Digg, said with reference to insider sources of information about the new media player iTV. Recall, this new model name of Apple TV, which according to unofficial sources, the new version will work under the operating system iOS. According to Rose, the device will be released in September and will cost $ 99. The emergence of iTV, as he said, "change everything".

For example, there will be applications for the iTV, which can be downloaded online store App Store, it will be the program for viewing and recording video, interactive news and, of course, games. And all this through the TV console, can be seen on the TV screen. Moreover, iTV will be available through the advertising platform iAds. Also, the new device will help to quickly publish photos and videos online, and iPad can be used as a remote control for iTV. With it, users can control games, edit video and so on.

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Premier League: Liverpool defeated Manchester

In the last match of the second round of English Premier League Manchester City at home defeated Liverpool 3:0.

The guests arrived in Manchester in service: coach Roy Hodgson put forward attacking pair Fernando Torres and David Ngoga, who helped on the flanks of Dirk Kuyt and Milan Jovanovic.

However, despite the positive attitude, "Liverpool had to fight back from the first minutes. And fifteen minutes later the players Manchester City broke through the defense of "red".

The "citizens" worked a bunch of newcomers from Aston Villa: James Milner celebrated his debut in the "citizens" on the help of Gareth Barry, who calmly conveyed the ball into the net gate Reina.

Other acquisition "City" is also not left behind.

It was particularly noticeable Adam Johnson, throughout the match tormented the left flank of defense Liverpool. Even in the first half, former midfielder Middlesbrough could differ twice, but both his strike whistled close to the pole.

Without the suspended Joe Cole wards Roy Hodgson clearly not enough thought in the building and they had to rely on long strikes, which have not received neither Gerrard nor Torres.

No options

After the break, the situation at Anfield has become even more complicated: Carlos Tevez, like a devil from a snuff-box popped up in front of Pepe Reina and the slight movement of the foot correcting the trajectory of stroke Mickey Richards - 2:0.

Having admitted the second goal, "red" unexpectedly took heart and laid siege to the approaches to kick an opponent. In Steven Gerrard hit the bar gate Hart, and after two minutes the hosts had saved a tremendous response of the young goalkeeper Joe Hart, otbivshego two strikes in a row.

Having missed the opportunity to immediately otkvitat one ball, the players Liverpool snikli and soon missed another goal.

Once again, Johnson broke through the flank and the former defender of Zenit St. Petersburg Škrtel Martin was forced to break the rules in his own penalty. Tevez took a penalty to hit and not missed.

Main attitude

After the game head coach of the "City" Roberto Mancini said that he was particularly pleased to win in front of the club owner Sheikh Mansour.

"I am pleased that was able to show that [Sheikh Mansour] good game, which was so important - the coach said Manchester City." - The main thing for us was, do not choose a strategy, and tune into the game. Our victory depends on the mood.

Roy Hodgson, who led Liverpool before the start of this season, said that his team still did not deserve defeat such a bill.

"But we played poorly on defense, passing such goals, - admitted the coach. - They also made good use of their chances."

Besides the coach of "red" noted the game rival, saying that "Manchester City played a strong and confident throughout the match.

"They took the game, and we constantly fought to seize the initiative - said Hodgson. - You just have to admit that we were not able to show the necessary level of the game.

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