Digital Sky Technologies

In a blog post modestly titled "Your world, more connected" Twitter announced on Monday it has closed a deal for a "significant" round of new funding led by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST).Twitter did not reveal the amount raised for the wildly popular real-time microblogging service but based ...

Craig Mellow, at The Deal Magazine has a fascinating profile of Yuri Milner, the Russian investment banker who runs Digital Sky Technologies(DST), a multi-billion dollar fund.Milner has garnered tremendous amounts of publicity for his investments in Facebook, Groupon and other high flying US companies.Late last year, DST partner Alexander Tamas, ...

There is something going on in China, Russia and South Africa. Via various internet investments and creations, these three countries combined have built up major stakes in some of the world's biggest sites and social networks.Russian investment company, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now owns about 7-10% of Facebook by various ...

There's no shortage of hype about social gaming at the moment, resulting in substantial buyouts of social gaming startups by large media conglomerates. The statistics are pointing to massive growth numbers, specifically around micro-payments and around the vast numbers of users playing social games on a daily basis.Martin Walfisz on ...

Emerging market internet media giant Naspers has announced that it will acquire a 28.7% stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the Russian internet company that has invested in Facebook, social network game creator Zynga and owns the mature instant messaging service, ICQ.Naspers said it will be investing $388-million via its ...