Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
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What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean?
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Facebook has raised $500 million in new "venture capital" at a $50 billion valuation, according to a report late last night from DealBook. Not sure if the $50 billion is a pre-money or post-money mark, but I'm also not sure if such niggling details matter at such a nose-bleedingly high stratosphere.
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Greg Kumparak
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MobileCrunch
Bad News, friends: With the long weekend over and that New-Years-Hangover (hopefully) conquered, it’s time to get back to life. Step 1: Set an alarm. Perhaps you’ve heard by now that the iPhone’s alarm system had gone a bit wonky once we’d flipped over into 2011. Perhaps, then, you’ve also heard that the problem ...
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2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?
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Prediction season has started early this year. Fortune, Techcrunch, Scoble, Louis Gray, and others are already picking winners in the Smartphone market, which most see as a two horse race between iPhone and Android. My prediction? Both will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will ...
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Over on the Windows Live Solution Center , a number of Windows Live Hotmail users have been complaining about missing e-mails. For the last three days, users have reported that their e-mails have been deleted from their Inbox and other folders or that e-mails sent to them never arrived. Microsoft has since fixed the problem, after declaring that ...
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A Microsoft Kinect hack lets World of Warcraft players cast spells, fight opponents and maneuver their characters using simple hand gestures and body movements.
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PrimeSense and ASUS team, bring Kinect-like Wavi Xtion to your living room TV
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PrimeSense provides some of the brains behind Microsoft's Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie ; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an ...
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Erick Schonfeld
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Facebook's latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation , which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket , clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion), ...
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Google and Motorola haven't quite announced that Honeycomb tablet we're expecting to see at CES in just a couple days, but that's not stopping eLocity , makers of the A7 tablet pictured above -- the company just announced no fewer than seven 10-inch Tegra 2 tablets running Android 3.0. Specs are pretty light, but we're told the new A10 line will ...
Having recently announced its increased wafer production capabilities, the fast-growing LDK Solar (LDK:NYSE) announced today that it has sold a stake in one of its subsidiaries for $240 million. China Development Bank Capital Corporation will acquire an 18.5 percent stake in LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of LDK ...
Have you ever needed to project the display of a cell phone or portable gadget on a TV or big screen? If yes, you know that this is often a pain (for example, during a presentation) – but Sanyo’s Sha-Miel [JP] might do the trick for you. It’s essentially a flexible magnifying camera for displays of mobile devices.
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Not since we ran into Benign Girl at the Dollar General have we been so taken with a toy cellphone. Yours now for a mere 99 cents, Smart Phone (creative name!), proves what we suspected all along: in Shenzhen, even children's playthings are jailbroken . But please be careful, as this thing is only recommended for users over the age of four. Get ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
BitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed - the company just announced that it's hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent . That's up from 80 million monthly users most recently. The company also revealed that it has over 20 million daily active users, over 400,000 daily client downloads, and ...
Donald Melanson
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Engadget
In the George A. Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead , a radioactive satellite falls to earth and causes the dead to rise from their graves -- but what if the satellite itself had become a zombie? That's the slightly less frightening reality that has befallen Intelsat's Galaxy 15 communications satellite, which "went rogue" in April of 2010 ...
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Sprint today refused to further fund Clearwire, the partner for its 4G network rollout, after waiving the right to buy $760 million of the struggling network operator's convertible debt.
“To be a good search marketer, you must be a good searcher.” That’s sage advice for SEO and it’s also pretty handy for any kind of content marketing. Recently I’ve found myself offering more advice on content creation by showing some of Google’s Advanced search features in combination with other content ...
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Research in Motion today said it won't allow Indian authorities to access data transmitted through its corporate service, in a long-running battle over access to data passed through over its BlackBerry devices.
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LG today announced that it will introduce a line of home appliances that can be controlled by its smartphones and tablets.
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When I hear people say “this is the year of such-and-such” I am reminded of the mobile industry. Since at least 1999 people have been saying that, finally, this was the year of mobile and sure enough, 2009 may have finally been legitimately the year of mobile… which only proves that it is best to [...]
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