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Facebook's $500 Million: 5 Things FB Could Do With the Goldman Sachs Cash

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It's a very happy New Year indeed for Facebook: The social networking company has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investing firm called Digital Sky Technologies. Goldman now says that Facebook is worth a whopping $50 billion.

That $500 million investment is a cool chunk of change for Mark Zuckerberg and Co. But what, exactly, do they plan to do with it? Surge Desk has collected some of the prevailing tech-blog theories.

1. Go public
TechCrunch muses that the cash injection "values [Facebook] at a nice round $50 billion. And the likely reason is so Goldman can take Facebook public." Business Insider agrees that Facebook is gearing up to go public (though Marketwatch thinks it won't happen until 2012). That would make some more cash for both Goldman and Facebook.

2. Buy some new digs
TechCrunch also notes that the extra financing comes close on the heels of revelations that Facebook, which has outgrown its present office space, may be making a big move to the former Sun Microsystems/Oracle campus.

3. Cash out some employees and early investors
Mashable thinks that some of the money will go to buy up the stock of some employees and early investors.

4. Hire lots more workers
CNET points out that Facebook will need to attract top-notch engineering talent to keep up this level of expansion. Some of the money may go toward that goal.

5. Move into new territory
Mashable also suggests that Facebook may use some of the cash to acquire smaller companies and head into new markets.

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