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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Myspace Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming — Myspace-the long-troubled social networking site turned social entertainment hub-is in the midst of planning that could soon result in significant layoffs of its staff, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Search Engine Land, The Register, SAI, The Next Web, Erictric, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and SlashGear
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Clearwire Chair Craig McCaw to Quit Today — Cash-strapped Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw's resignation. The company's survival is now in question as it struggles to build a nationwide high-speed wireless 4G network — (Bloomberg) — Clearwire Corp. …
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Post Tech, FierceWireless, Electronista, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, mocoNews, Mobilized and Sidecut Reports
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
What 20 Minutes On Facebook Looks Like: 1M Shared Links, 2.7M Photos Uploaded, 10.2M Comments — Democracy UK, a UK-focused political campaigning initiative by Facebook, has just released a number of mind-blowing stats on the massive usage of the network by its 500-plus million members in 2010.
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Democracy UK / Facebook:
A Snapshot of Facebook in 2010 — Happy New Year Democracy UK! — As 2010 draws to a close we can take a look at some data that provides a window into the lives of the millions of people around the world who use Facebook everyday to share their lives, feelings and interests with friends.
Discussion:
Mashable!
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Groupon Draws New Investors and Works on an I.P.O. — Groupon, the social buying site that spurned a $6 billion takeover bid from Google earlier this month, has attracted several big institutional investors, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Wednesday.
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SAI, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, DailyFinance, PE Hub Blog, Tech Musings, VatorNews and Fortune
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Begun The Talent Wars Have - Why Twitter needs a London HQ: Google Engineers — We've reported before about how the escalating war for talent in Silicon Valley is effectively creating a kind of arms race between tech companies. — For example, Google is offering employees a 10% pay increase for 2011 …
Ty McMahan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Why Groupon, Twitter & Other Hot Private Companies Are Cashing Out — Early shareholders in the hottest privately-held technology companies are increasingly finding liquidity without an acquisition or a public offering, with Groupon Inc. being the most recent example.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Twins' Facebook Fight Rages On — SAN DIEGO — Some people go to court hoping to win millions of dollars. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have already won tens of millions. But six years into a legal feud with Facebook, they want to give it back — for a chance to get more.
Discussion:
SAI, Gawker and New York Magazine
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How We Shared Content in 2010: Still More Facebook, More Email Than Twitter, MySpace Lives On — The link sharing service AddThis, which said this month that it's now tracking the interests of more than 1 billion people across the web, has published an infographic breaking …
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AddThis Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, All Facebook, Web Analytics World and SocialTimes.com
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
For Apps, Profit Picture Is Blurry — Firms Seek Business Models as They Release Slew of Photo Software for Phones — Companies in recent months have launched a slew of photography applications for the iPhone and other smartphones, but many of these start-ups are still trying to figure …
Donald A. Norman / Gizmodo:
Living with Complexity: How Apple Reinvented Music Distribution — iTune's dominant position atop the digital music market is not happenstance. Donald A. Norman discusses how, through the integration of its products, design and service, Apple became a media distribution juggernaut.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BotTorrent? Using BitTorrent as a DDoS Tool — A recent talk at the Chaos Communications Congress revealed how BitTorrent swarms can be exploited to take down large websites with relative ease. A vulnerability in the technology behind so called trackerless torrents makes it possible …
Discussion:
SlashGear and WL Central
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
The Year in Mobile — Apple invented a new category of mobile device, consumers want faster connections, and the spectrum is more crowded than ever. — Insanely Popular — Companies have introduced tablet computers before, but the technology never took off until 2010 …
Discussion:
ThinkMobile
Dylan Winter / Duckworks:
Adsense, no sense at all - what it's like being sacked by a computer... I have worked for the newspapers, magazines, radio stations and TV stations. One of the things you get used to as a freelance is being sacked. After all, that's why they take us on - we are easy to sack.
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Techdirt, Guardian, Examiner and Search Engine Roundtable
