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DealBook:
Goldman Offering Clients a Chance to Invest in Facebook — Updated — 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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John Cassidy / Rational Irrationality:
Facebook-Goldman: Where Is the S.E.C.? — Happy New Year everybody. I'm working on a post about the economic prospects for 2011, but, first-up, a quick memo to Mary Schapiro, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary, once again the boys and girls at Goldman Sachs appear …
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Computerworld, SAI, zero hedge, Fortune and The Next Web
Peter Lattman / DealBook:
Why Facebook Is Such a Crucial Friend for Goldman — Goldman Sachs sent Facebook a friend request, and Facebook accepted. — The news that Goldman has taken a stake in Facebook, the white-hot social networking giant, has tongues wagging from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
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SAI
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Goldman's Facebook coup
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SAI, TechCrunch, Epicenter, NBC Bay Area and All Facebook
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook's Valuation: By the Numbers
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SAI and Wall Street Journal
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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MarketWatch, BetaNews, Ars Technica, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, Yahoo! News, ReadWriteWeb, Internet2Go, Android Tapp, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, Evolver.fm and Telecompetitor
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Android's Gaining Fast, So What Can Apple And RIM Do To Compete?
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GigaOM, Computerworld, BGR, iLounge, MacDailyNews and Electronista
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Trends, Yahoo! News, VentureBeat, Mobile Marketing Watch, App Advice, TechEye, Erictric, SiliconANGLE, GMSV, PadGadget, pocketnow.com, Faster Forward, Softpedia News, everythingiCafe, Computerworld, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Android Community, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint, FierceMobileContent, ReadWriteWeb, mobiputing, Electricpig.co.uk, Fortune, PhoneArena, Electronista, CNET News and MacStories, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:richdemuro
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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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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, SlashGear, PR Newswire, paidContent, Yahoo! News, Electronista, Bloomberg, Crave, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Faster Forward, TechSpot, MobileWhack.com, PhoneDog.com, Fortune, Gadgetell, BGR, Softpedia News, SlashPhone, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Android Community, Gizmodo, I4U News, Android Phone Fans, ThinkMobile, Inquirer, Switched, PhoneNews.com, The Business Of Online Video, PadGadget, Voices on All Things Digital, VentureBeat and Tech Report, more at Mediagazer »
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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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TechEye, HotHardware.com News, AnandTech, The Tech Report, dailywireless.org, Inquirer, CNET News, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo and MacRumors
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Intel to launch Insider movie service with 1080p content …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TG Daily, Inquirer, Gizmodo and ITworld.com
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 …
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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Computerworld, Engadget, Ars Technica, App Advice, PC Magazine, TechEye, SAI, MobileCrunch, SlashGear, PhoneArena, DailyTech, Mashable!, ThinkMobile, GeekSugar, Softpedia News, DailyFinance, OS X Daily and Gadget Lab
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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Computerworld, Ars Technica, CNET News, TechEye, IntoMobile, Softpedia News and SlashGear
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Lenovo tries to escape boring designs with new ThinkPad laptops
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Telecompetitor, msnbc.com, FT tech hub, Technologizer and Engadget
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Founder Kevin Rose Launches Private Newsletter Called Foundation — I bet you didn't know that Twitter was almost named Jittter or Twitch. Well, now you will. — Last year Digg founder Kevin Rose was mulling over a new video show called fforward. Fforward never launched, but the idea did change into something else.
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Kevin Rose, SAI and Laughing Squid
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Apple support company sues customer for complaining — Returning to my inbox after the New Year's break, I found it full of Greeks bearing rifts. — The national press, the tech blogosphere, even normal, ordinary human beings on Twitter are railing against Systemgraph …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Trouble In the House of Google — Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. — When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels ... risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth …
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Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless to Showcase Google-Powered 4G Phones — Verizon Wireless is expected this week to show off several devices powered by Google Inc. software for its new 4G network, underscoring the importance of the two companies' relationship even as speculation mounts that Verizon will get to offer the iPhone this year.
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Android Phone Fans, Erictric, Droid Life, dailywireless.org, FierceWireless, Android News, Rumours … and Light Reading
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Is Due For A (Relatively) Boring 2011 — Top Apple analyst Gene Munster just released his roadmap for Apple in 2011, and we have to say it looks relatively snoozy. — Compared to last year when Apple had an amazing year with the iPad, iPhone 4, Apple TV, and redesigned MacBook Air …
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Tech Trader Daily, Between the Lines Blog, Mobile Marketing Watch, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Know Your Cell, iClarified and BGR
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 …
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Digital Trends, eWeek, IntoMobile, Bloomberg, Engadget, VentureBeat, Samsung Hub, CNET News, BGR, OLED TV Display Lighting …, Internet2Go, blogs.chron.com, SlashGear, Mashable!, BlogsDNA, Smartphones … and Softpedia News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's market cap tops $300 billion — Giving ExxonMobil a run for its money in the race to be the world's most valuable company — In a broad 2011 rally that pushed the Dow up nearly a point in mid-morning trading Monday, Apple (AAPL) popped more than $7 (2.25%) to hit new record intraday highs …
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9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors
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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App Advice, Electricpig.co.uk and TiPb
New York Times:
Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons — ATLANTA — A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital “friends.” Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.
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All Facebook, Tech Report, Gawker and textually.org
