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May 29, 2012 08:05 pm GMT

More FB IPO Fallout? Russias Leading Social Network Vkontaktes IPO Postponed Indefinitely

Image1 for post Facebook Investor Bets On Two Horses As Vkontakte.ru Plans To Go GlobalIn the aftermath-analysis about what exactly happened in the Facebook IPO, and what it might mean for the future, here's one side-effect to the east of Nasdaq: Vkontake, the top social network in Russia, which shares a shareholder with Facebook, Mail.ru, has decided to delay its own IPO.The news was confirmed by the company's CEO Pavel Durov on Twitter. In Russian, he tweeted, in answer to a Russian journalist's question about the planned IPO date, "It's not planned. The IPO of Facebook has destroyed the faith of a lot of private investors in social networks and the IPO of VK has now been postponed indefinitely."

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