The company counts Walmart, Baidu (BIDU) and Russian investment firm Digital Sky as minority shareholders.
Starting in the summer of 2009, Russian holding firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST) began taking huge stakes in successful American startups.
O. of Digital Sky Technologies, a Moscow-based Internet investment company that has reportedly acquired a stake of nearly ten per cent in Facebook.
It obscures our vision, it darkens the digital sky, and it makes everything we could and should do with the new web-connected world harder.
But when he arrived in New York he found a car from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian company, waiting for him at the airport.
And astronomers are just as likely to point a software query-tool at a digital sky survey as to point a telescope at the stars.
Investors: Digital Sky Technologies, Institutional Venture Partners, Andreessen Horovitz, Tiger Global.
The firm, which changed its name from Digital Sky Technologies last month, owns about 2.5% of Facebook, with another 7.5% owned by its sister company DST Global.
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Founded in November 2008, Groupon has investments from venture capital firms such as Lightbank, Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
The new ICQ owner is Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a high-flying Russian Internet firm with investments in social networks (Facebook and Zynga, which makes games for SNS portals) and webmail.
One big reason the price keeps going up is that Russian holding firm Digital Sky Technologies is hungrily scarfing up as much Facebook stock as it can from early investors and employees.
In July, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which aims to map out a million galaxies, published a research paper in which they superimposed their own galaxy-clustering data on Wmap's microwave data.
Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.
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Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer of the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory analysed some 17, 500 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and have now found just such a pair of emissions coming from a distant quasar.
Although he is chairman of BSkyB, his son James is CEO of the firm, which operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland.
But it hasn't been terribly popular among the 8.5 million Sky Digital subscribers, even accounting for the fact that 40% of British homes are not yet served by BskyB's broadband.
The strong uptake isn't just because of Sky's recent broadband package, which was granted for free to anyone who already had Sky Digital TV and lives in an area already covered by broadband.
Sky digital viewers are able to vote for the "brainiest" contender - that is, the one who they think looks the most brainy at the start of the show (I did say it had dumbed down).
Mr Chisholm, in particular, weighed down by share options, reckoned that the longer Sky could keep digital television at bay, the better for Sky's investors.
He says if you have ability to have digital locker in the sky, with all media in one place, form content provider perspective, that is a step in the direction of a better user experience.
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And it has the early-mover advantage that could make Sky synonymous with digital television.
One such study aims to analyse the enormous amounts of data logged during digital surveys of the whole sky using large telescopes.
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Top Up TV, which offers pay channels to Freeview customers through digital terrestrial, should be able to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 for the first time as a result of the ruling.
New, more highbrow channels, whether from Sky Italia's satellite platform or digital terrestrial channels, are slowly fragmenting Mediaset's audience.
What is more "it's good news for Sky, because it makes the DTT (digital terrestrial) marketplace more coherent compared with ITV Digital", said WestLB analyst Simon Wallis.
Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.
Since Mr Baker was last in charge of Sky One there has been a proliferation of satellite, digital and cable entertainment channels, including BBC Three, Channel 4's E4 and ITV2.
Mr Hunt is saying that the creation of an integrated media giant - containing News International's newspapers, Sky's television, and both businesses' online and digital operations - would be a very good thing for the UK. And, more importantly, if the regulator takes a different view, then there would be ways of getting the deal through by imposing conditions on News Corporation.
Sky's best chance of staying on top was to move to digital technology when its market power was still at its peak.
Analysts say the entry into the market by BT represents a serious challenge, despite Sky's success in fighting off previous competition from the likes of ITV Digital, Setanta and ESPN.
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