{"id":9980,"date":"2011-07-04T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2011-07-04T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:08:08","slug":"china-wants-to-buy-a-big-chunk-of-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/china-wants-to-buy-a-big-chunk-of-facebook","title":{"rendered":"China Wants To Buy A Big Chunk of Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China wants to buy a huge chunk of Facebook, a source at a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees tells us.<\/p>\n<p>This source learned of China&#8217;s interest when it approached him to see  if he could help put together a stake large enough &#8220;to matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a second source tells us there is a rumor going around  Facebook that Citibank is at this very moment trying to acquire as much  as $1.2 billion worth of Facebook stock on behalf of two sovereign  wealth funds \u2013\u00a0 China&#8217;s and another from the Middle East.\u00a0 Another  source from an investment bank that is very influential in Silicon  Valley says he&#8217;s also heard a rumor about Citibank&#8217;s interest on behalf  of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a rumor going around Facebook that Citibank is at this very moment trying to acquire as much as $1.2 billion worth of Facebook stock on behalf of two sovereign wealth funds, one of them is China&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[91,203,69],"class_list":["post-9980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-china","tag-facebook","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}