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Samwer Brothers become investors in Facebook

Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:15pm EST

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - German Internet entrepeneurs, the Samwer Brothers, have become the latest new shareholders in social networking site Facebook, Alexander Samwer told Reuters on Tuesday.

Samwer said the brothers had taken an undisclosed stake in the company and would now become their strategic partners in Europe. (Reporting by John Bowker, Editing by Mike Elliott)



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