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This is done in privacy settings. 1. Facebook Image: Facebook.com Estimated Value: '25 BillionLast's Rank/Estimate: #1/'6.5 billion Business: Facebook is the largest social site in the world with over 500 million users, which is 66% more than 300 million users last year. According to Compete, it is the third largest web property based on unique visitors. Location: Palo Alto, CA Read more: About Facebook CEO: Mark zuckerberg Investors: The company has raised more than '400M in funding since 2008. Microsoft (.246M), Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing ('60M), Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners ('25M), Accel Partners ('12.8M), PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel ('500,000), European Founders Fund ('15M),' Digital Technologies Sky, and TriplePoint Capital ('100M'). Analysis: Facebook dominates the internet. He left a trail of waning competitors on his way (MySpace, Ning, Bebo). It just replaced Google as the number one destination users donate most of their time. Revenue last year was estimated at around 700 million pounds with branded and performance advertising consisting of the bulk. The company has had significant ad sales success because of its size, brand and ability to develop products such as engagement ads that interact with users. Facebook is also rumored to deepen its search relationship with Microsoft by extracting anonymized data from consumer usage, illustrating the importance of facebook's massive information-generating audience, not too mention, probably off from Google. Mark zuckerberg said that 2010 estimates of revenue from 1 and $1.1 billion is not that far away. If we take the conservative end of this range and apply the 25x somewhat because of its incredible growth, segments of emerging markets, low cost products, platform applications and advertising and gaming potential, we get a $25 billion valuation. In addition, Elevation Partners recently acquired 2.4 million shares on the secondary market, with an estimate of $23 billion. The shares traded as high as $34 billion on Sharespost, a whopping 30x estimated sales and more than eBay's market capitalization. 2. Image of Sing: Sing Estimated Value: $5 billion Last year Rating/Assessment: #12/$1.2 billion Business: Social Games Location: San Francisco, California Read more: About Singa CEO: Mark Pincus Investors: Singa has raised a total of $510 million Series A ($10 million): Avalon Ventures, Clarium Capital, Foundry Group, Pilot Group, Union Square Ventures, Reed Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Bob Pittman, Andy Russell, Brad Feldman, Serie B ($29 million): Kleiner Kleiner Perkins Kaufield and Anders Series C ($180 million): Andreessen Horowitz, Institutional Venture Partners, Tiger Global, Digital Sky Technologies and Kevin Rose. Series D ($300 million): Softbank and Google. Analysis: Singa has established itself as an outstanding leader in social games with more than 50 million daily active users playing their games. The company is estimated to rake in more than $500 million in revenue this year from a combination of ads and virtual merchandise. That's 150% more than last year,200 million dollars. We are bullish in the social gaming market because it does not require much development costs like traditional games. Singa lives mainly on social networks such as Facebook, where people spend an incredible amount of time. Finally, the virtual goods model is a high-margin business that is finally taking hold in the US. Many gaming companies trade in 5-10x sales. If we accept a high level of this range for leadership accounting, we will arrive at a valuation of $5 billion 3. Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) Image: Estimated value of Wikimedia: $5 billion Last year rating/estimate: #2/ $5 billion Business: The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization 501c3. Its asset is a global user encyclopedia that relies heavily on donations and profit-gathering activities. Location: San Francisco, CA Read more: About Wikipedia Executive Director: Sue Gardner Investors: Vinod Khosla, Open Society Institute, Alfred. The Sloan Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and countless individual donor analysis: Being a nonprofit, the company does not work for the purpose of generating revenue. The Wikimedia Foundation's revenue is expected to increase by $20.4 million in 2010, an increase of 28% over the previous year. Wikipedia as is one of the top 10 sites in the world. Had it been transformed into a to make a profit, therefore, and to work with the intention of making money, it would do a lot. Wikipedia page views are estimated at about 10-14 billion per month. Assuming conservative annual page views of 100 billion and conservative $5 per thousand page views, you get a potential revenue of about $500 million. The company's costs are minimal, as its content is promoted by the public for free. As a result, his profit will be well above 50%, leading us to give him a 10x income somewhat. That brings us to an estimate of $5 billion, according to last year, as competition from Facebook, Twitter and other user-focused news sources has skyrocketed. 4. Skype Estimated Value: $4 billion Last year Rank/Assessment: N/A (part of eBay last year) Business: Online Phone and Messaging Company Location: Luxembourg Read more: About Skype CEO: Josh Silverman Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, eBay, Andreessen Horowitz, Canada Retirement Plan Investment Board and Silver Lake Partners eBay completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion late last year. A consortium of investors, led by Silver Lake Partners, bought the company and will control 70% of the shares. Analysis: Now that Google has built a simple phone call in Gmail, this service will be needed for any company that wants to offer an online communications tool (think Microsoft Outlook, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) meanwhile, the old carrier charging model for minutes will increasingly go the way of bird dodo. Skype is an independent leader in this market and it has been quietly growing its business while (absurdly) hidden inside eBay. But it's over. Once Skype becomes public (or perhaps earlier), someone will develop gonadas to make the game for it. And once one big player does, others will follow. Potential buyers include Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Verizon (though unlikely). Meanwhile, revenue for the first half of the year was $400 million, implying revenue of $800 million in 2010. If we apply just over 5 times multiple, we get a $4 billion valuation. 5. Craigslist Estimated Value: $3 billion Last year Rating/Estimate: #5/$3 Billion Business: Classified Ads Location: San Francisco, California Read more: About Craigslist CEO: Jim Buckmaster Investors: eBay purchased a 25% stake in 2004 for $30 million. Recently Craigslist took poison pills that diluted eBay's stake in the company from 28% to just under 25%, which a judge ruled was in violation of their fiduciary trust. However, eBay will still not be able to appoint a director even after its share has been restored, stunned by the election provision that remains in force. Analysis: Newspaper revenues have fallen to levels not seen in more than 40 years. Craigslist remains one of many newspaper killers. Teh Teh The listing site famously charges only a small percentage of its ads as work and real estate ads in about 18 major cities. If a company actually went after real income by charging for much more of its ads, it could generate at least $1 billion in revenue. As a private company, income data is not disclosed. However, we estimate that the company will generate about $122 million with a profitability of between 70-80%. Thus, we give the company a healthy 25x multiple on unused income and high profits. This brings us to a $3 billion valuation, flat since last year due to the downturn in the real estate market and labor (two areas of classification that the company charges for). 6. Twitter Image: Twitter Estimated Value: $3 billion Last year Rating/Assessment: #15/$1 billion Business: Messages, Microblogging and Social Networking Location: San Francisco, CA Read more: About Twitter CEO: Evan Williams Investors: Charles River Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo Naval Ravikant, Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Digital Garage, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss, Benchmark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Insight Tweets up to 90 million a day, according to Twitter CEO Ev Williams. This is 450% more than a year ago, and more than 1.5 tweets per day from 145 million users. The problem for Twitter is traffic only grew by 100% over the same period. This will be troublesome in the long run. However, the company recently unveiled a new Twitter that is likely to lure more users to the actual Twitter site rather than go through third-party apps. This should, in the long run, help Twitter sell more brand advertising.