1. DealBook: In Goldman’s Facebook Deal, an Opening for Private Clients  permalink

DealBook: In Goldman’s Facebook Deal, an Opening for Private Clients
SUSANNE CRAIG / NYT

As part of a deal that values Facebook at $50 billion, Goldman Sachs is offering wealthy clients a chance to invest in the company without its going public.

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Goldman deal values Facebook at $50bn   —  Facebook has raised $500m for further expansion from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies in a deal that values the dominant social network at $50bn

Chris / Chris Pirillo
Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now Worth $50 Billion Social Media Updates for 2011-01-03   —  Social Media Updates for 2011-01-03 is a post from Chris Pirillo Social Media Updates for 2010-12-27 # Social Media Updates for 2010-12-27 # Windows Family Pack ending December 31st. [Microsoft is making you get a new family? Happy New Year!] # Dating sites are using Facebook to help ...

2. Senate Dems to Boehner: We'll block your repeal push  permalink

Senate Dems to Boehner: We'll block your repeal push
Voices.washingtonpost.com

In the first official response from Dems to the House GOP plan to repeal health reform, Senate Democrats have penned a sharply worded letter to House Speaker John Boehner vowing that repeal is a dead letter in the Senate, the Associated Press reports.

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3. December 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®  permalink

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DO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire United States, while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local vicinities. Also, the information in the regional reports is not used in calculating the ...

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Wall Street Starts New Year With a Surge US manufacturing activity picks up in December   —  The US manufacturing sector grew in December for the 17th straight month, boosting hopes that the economic recovery is gathering pace

4. In California, Governor Brown Redux  permalink

In California, Governor Brown Redux
ADAM NAGOURNEY / NYT

SACRAMENTO — Jerry Brown began his return engagement as governor of California on Monday, using his inaugural address to call for an end to partisan battling that he said was paralyzing the state and to promise, in what is presumably the last chapter of his public life, to lead California out of one of the toughest budget crises of its ...

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In California, Governor Brown Redux California swears in new governor   —  Jerry Brown is sworn in as the new governor of the US state of California, taking over from the departing Arnold Schwarzenegger.

5. BitTorrent Remote App Hits App Store, But For How Long?  permalink

BitTorrent Remote App Hits App Store, But For How Long?
Christina Warren / Mashable

Brief approvals aside, Apple has never welcomed BitTorrent clients to its iOS platform with open arms. That’s why the recent approval of the iPhone app iControlbits, a $1.99 app designed as a front-end for popular Transmission BitTorrent client has us scratching our heads. Is Apple continuing to loosen its app review process, or was ...

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BitTorrent Remote App Hits App Store, But For How Long? Popular BitTorrent Client Transmission Gets an iPhone App   —  In what may prove to be the first "yanked from the App Store" story of 2011, TorrentFreak reports that there's a new BitTorrent app available for iPhone users. The app, iControlbits (iTunes link), offers an interface for Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client for Mac.

6. Time for a Next Net  permalink

Douglas / Douglas Rushkoff

Just posted this to Shareable: a call that we leave this Internet behind and go build a new one. The moment the “net neutrality” debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network – its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic [...]

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The Next Net   —  The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network - its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation - is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them - that network loses its power to effect change. The mere fact ...

7. The Drop: Week of Jan 3rd 2011 New Releases  permalink

The Drop: Week of Jan 3rd 2011 New Releases
Blog.us.playstation.com

Greetings from the future! Welcome back PlayStation fans, I hope you’re sporting your aluminum foil hats and gloves as you brace yourself for what is going to be a spectacular year in PlayStation gaming history. I kid you not, I’ve traveled into the future and have witnessed a world where PlayStation Move light posts tower over PS3 paved ...

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8. App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry  permalink

App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

There has already been plenty of data out there suggesting that Apple had a monster holiday season. We'll know for sure in a few weeks when they announced their earnings. For now though, we have to go by what third-party developers are seeing when it comes to app download numbers. And one company, Flixster , has given us some key details of how ...

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App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry Android's Gaining Fast, So What Can Apple And RIM Do To Compete?   —  We’ve all heard the prediction that 2011 will be “the” year for Android, with more devices—handsets and tablets—based on the OS hitting the market than ever before, and more apps developed for the platform ( estimated now to be at 210,000 and counting). And if the last six months are anything to go by, in the U.S., ...

Ryan Kim / GigaOMTech
App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining   —  While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.

9. E-Blogs is closing! Thank you for everything  permalink

E-Blogs is closing! Thank you for everything
E-blogs.wikio.co.uk

After only 11 months, we leave the European blogosphere. We will stop translating on December 31. Before leaving, for dessert, here is our “best of” 2010, posts that made the deepest impression on us. Witnesses of what remains for us a beautiful adventure, the joy of shared discoveries of one country to another and the pride of having ...

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10. US offers Gbagbo 'dignified exit'  permalink

US offers Gbagbo 'dignified exit'
BBC News

Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is offered refuge in the US as a means to end the country's political crisis.

11. Texas Rangers officially welcome pitchers Brandon Webb, Arthur Rhodes  permalink

Texas Rangers officially welcome pitchers Brandon Webb, Arthur Rhodes
Richard Durrett / ESPN.com

Both contracts for the pitchers are one-year deals, though Rhodes has a club option for 2012. ESPN.com reported last month that Webb's contract was worth $3 million plus incentives that could make the total package between $8 and $10 million.

12. J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B  permalink

J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

With e-commerce spending performing well over the past holiday season, retailers are hoping this trend will continue into 2011. J.P. Morgan senior analyst Imran Kahn has released his annual report forecasting trends for the New Year that includes a number of positive projections for the e-commerce industry. The report forecasts that e-commerce ...

13. Honeycomb Needs Powerful Chip, Screen  permalink

Honeycomb Needs Powerful Chip, Screen
Www.pcmag.com

Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly, said Bobby Cha, managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert.

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14. Afghan Panel to Reassess Fall Votes  permalink

Afghan Panel to Reassess Fall Votes
MICHAEL KAMBER / NYT

A panel the Supreme Court set up said it would issue rulings within two weeks on complaints of election abuse in September’s vote.

15. US official's body found at dump  permalink

US official's body found at dump
BBC News

Police investigate after the body of a former US government official, John Wheeler, is found in a landfill site in the state of Delaware.

16. Conservative Seeks Balance on His Way to Senate  permalink

Conservative Seeks Balance on His Way to Senate
KATHARINE / NYT

As Patrick J. Toomey prepared to be sworn in as Pennsylvania’s newest senator, he hardly sounded like a Tea Party firebrand.

17. The Appraisal: Before Move-In Day, Evicting the Old Auras  permalink

The Appraisal: Before Move-In Day, Evicting the Old Auras
CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY / NYT

Judith Wendell, left, a feng shui expert, was hired by Ziporah Reich to improve the energy in her apartment. Since worries about the future or negative vibes from the past are two things New Yorkers cannot complain to management about, a very tiny industry has evolved to fill these needs.

18. Doctors try to save Gabor's leg  permalink

Doctors try to save Gabor's leg
BBC News

Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is being treated with powerful antibiotics as doctors make a last-ditch attempt to save her gangrenous leg.

19. McKay: League should revisit playoff seeding system  permalink

McKay: League should revisit playoff seeding system
Www.nfl.com

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Rich McKay, Atlanta Falcons president and co-chair of the NFL Competition Committee, said Wednesday at the league's owners meetings that he would like to see playoff teams re-seeded, with division winners not necessarily granted a home game.

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20. The Caucus: Five-Way Debate as Republicans Vie to Lead Party  permalink

MICHAEL / NYT

Candidates to lead the Republican National Committee met, including Michael Steele, the embattled incumbent.