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Samwers join Facebook

By Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt and Arndt Ohler in Hamburg

Published: January 16 2008 01:24 | Last updated: January 16 2008 01:24

German internet entrepreneurs Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer said they had taken a stake in Facebook and would help the US social networking site with a planned roll-out of websites for European markets.

Oliver Samwer told FT Deutschland, the FT’s sister-paper, that the investment was “very important” to him and his brothers, although he declined to reveal the size of the stake or how much they paid for it.

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