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DealBook:
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation — Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
What Will Facebook Do With All That Money? — We're still reeling from the news that Facebook has raised $500 million in new funding at a $50 billion valuation. While The New York Times report has yet to be confirmed, we've heard rumors for a while now that Facebook was looking to raise …
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Goldman's Facebook coup
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple — Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers, as the two companies vie to become the dominant distributor of newspapers and magazines for tablet computers and other mobile devices.
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Vizio to Introduce Tablet, Cellphone — Company to Unveil Tablet, Cellphone With Same Strategy as Its Low-Cost TVs — Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet computers. — Vizio, which has vied with Samsung Electronics Co …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Lenovo tries to escape boring designs with new ThinkPad laptops — Lenovo is unveiling its latest computers bit by bit at the Consumer Electronics Show. The first to be unveiled are its new line of ThinkPad laptops, which are aimed at business users. — These machines reflect the attempt …
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Agam Shah / PC World:
Lenovo to Show First Tablets at CES — Lenovo will show its first tablets this week as it moves to make a mark in the fast-growing market led by Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab. — Lenovo executives said two consumer tablet devices will be shown at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) …
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Intel's 2nd Generation Core processor family announced, includes 29 new CPUs and enhanced graphics — They're here! That is, Intel's Sandy Bridge mobile and desktop processors herein known as the 2nd Generation Core processor family or more simply as Intel Core 2011 processors to us.
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Intel to launch Insider movie service with 1080p content …
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Nielsen Wire:
Apple Leads Smartphone Race, while Android Attracts Most Recent Customers — The race for the lead in U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among …
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Android's Gaining Fast, So What Can Apple And RIM Do To Compete?
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Like ‘Twitter For iPad’? Check Out Its Facebook Counterpart, Facepad — In what has become one of the not-so-great mysteries of technology, Facebook still hasn't launched a native iPad application nine months after the device made its debut, despite the fact that many thousands …
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Reuters:
Apple woes continue as some oversleep in Asia and Europe — (Reuters) - Some iPhone users in Asia and Europe complained of malfunctioning alarms on the first working day of 2011, even after Apple reassured users that its phones' built-in clocks will work from Monday.
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Toshiba announces unnamed Tegra 2-powered Android tablet, waits only for Honeycomb — Let the Tegra 2-powered, Android Honeycomb tablet announcements begin! Apparently (and understandably) staying away from a Folio 2 moniker, Toshiba is kicking off CES with its new unnamed 10.1-inch Android tablet …
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Samsung Galaxy S hits target, surpasses 10 million units sold — Samsung has officially confirmed that its Galaxy S smartphone range has eclipsed 10 million units sold, hitting the company's target just 7 months after the device launched. — We previously reported that the handset …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Square Starts 2011 with A New Round At A Big Valuation — While much of Silicon Valley spent the last two weeks skiing or otherwise reveling in all that money made this year from acquisitions, partial liquidations and secondary deals, Square founder Jack Dorsey was apparently hard at work.
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Nathaniel Whittemore / Assetmap:
Let's End the Myth that Ideas are Worthless — I love Silicon Valley. I love the entrepreneurial energy and the blister and pop of passion being painted into reality every day. But if entrepreneurial density is the Valley's greatest asset, it can also, sometimes, be its greatest weakness.
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John Bennett / Against Monopoly:
Against Monopoly: China joins the patent trolls; wake up America — STEVE LOHR claims to examine China's new push on innovation, but it is really about the policy to promote issuing more patents link here. The government is actually providing incentives to increase the annual patent harvest …
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
China Actually Brags About How Much It Censors Online — Pretty striking. While it's not news that the Chinese government censors the internet, it shows how uncontroversial it is that officials would actually brag about how much content they're censoring. (Via the FT)
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