VOA reading - (01/11/10)

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Facebook is the world\'s biggest social network -- and the subject of the movie Social Network.

(SOUND)

The real Mark Zuckerberg and his friends at Harvard University launched the site in two thousand four. Facebook says it reached five hundred million users last July.

Now, the American bank Goldman Sachs and the Russian company Digital Sky Technologies have friended Facebook. They are investing a total of five hundred million dollars in the company. The deal values Facebook at fifty billion dollars -- more than many publicly traded Internet companies.

Goldman Sachs is expected to raise a billion and a half dollars more by selling shares of ownership in Facebook to rich investors. The plan does not include a public stock offering -- at least not right now.
___________________________________________________________________-
这篇貌似必将好读。我现在只打算读９０秒之内的文章。大家多拍。