Northern City Nights

The New York Times recently ran two articles in their Travel section highlighting two cities in European countries that I consider to be in the Far North.

Most go there places. In summer of course!

Stockholm in Sweden  see 36 Hours in Stockholm

"STOCKHOLMERS revel in the long days of summer when the sun rises as early as 3:30 a.m. and doesn’t set until after 10 p.m. Many locals escape to their country houses, but those who remain in the city spend as much time as possible outdoors — an easy feat since water and parkland make up almost two-thirds of Stockholm."

And in St Petersburg in Russia see White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 

"In St. Petersburg, the grand city of the czars, they call them the “White Nights”: those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight."

Facebook and the Road to a $50 Billion Dollar Valuation Helped by Russians and Now Goldmans.

"Facebook is now solidly a $50 billion company, as measured by valuation from investors, thanks to its latest round of funding -- $500 million from Goldman Sachs and DST. "

So Facebook has now the valuation that Mark Zuckerberg has been saying it should have thanks to Goldman Sachs and DST.

Right, DST who? Digital Sky Technologies a Russian company that has this really interesting web site. Check it out: DST. A lot more information on this global investor into mainly US based tech companies can be found in The New York Times Deal Book article:

Russians’ Large Stake in Facebook Grows Larger

Chart from SAI Silicon Valley Investor Chart of the day

Facebook's Bumpy Road To $50 Billion