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DST's Alexander Tamas Talks About New Investors, New Investments and Dealing With Troubling Russian Stereotypes

in News on July 19, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

After Russia-based Internet investor Digital Sky Technologies got $388 million in a stock-swapping deal with South Africa media giant Naspers — coming after an earlier $300 million investment from China’s Internet behemoth Tencent — BoomTown dialed up DST partner Alexander Tamas in London to interview him about the implications. This developing international spiderweb of digital and media companies begged the question of what DST might do with all this new dough, especially since it has created quite a splash over the last year investing massive gobs of money in high-profile, social-focused U.S. Internet companies.

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DST Still Shopping for Facebook Shares

in News on August 21, 2009 at 5:01 pm PT

Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies appears to be hungry for a bigger piece of Facebook. The firm just finished spending $100 million to purchase current and former Facebook employees’ shares of the company, on top of a $200 million direct investment into the social-networking site earlier this year.