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Reuters:
Goldman's “friends” get week to mull Facebook bet — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs is not giving its multimillionaire clients a lot of time or information to think about investing in a $1.5 billion Facebook private offering. — According to a customer who received a letter from Goldman …
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Duff McDonald / Fortune:
Five reasons why I'm not buying Facebook — Before you start scrambling to get a piece of the Facebook pie, it's worth looking at a few glaring risk factors. — Would you give this guy $2 million? — Excuse me for raining on the Facebook parade, but yesterday's news about the $450 million investment …
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ITworld.com, We Are Social, CNBC, Media Decoder and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
Felix Salmon:
Why Facebook won't go public — Miguel Helft explains …
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TechCrunch, PC World and DealBook
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook, Twitter, & startup valuations …
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All Facebook, Deal Journal, SAI, Venture Capital Dispatch and broadstuff, Thanks:denimsmith
Bloomberg:
Facebook Backer Helps Lure Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley to Silicon Valley
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David Kirkpatrick / The Daily Beast:
Facebook's $50 Billion Goldman Goldmine: Don't Expect an IPO
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Business Week, SAI, Fractals of Change and The Huffington Post
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
In the Works: A Google Mobile Payment Service? — “You'll be able to walk in a store and do commerce,” says Google's Eric Schmidt. “You'd bump for everything and eventually replace credit cards” — Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk …
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Search Engine Land, Electronista, Fast Company, PC Magazine, ITworld.com, Erictric, Fortune, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, BloggingStocks, ReadWriteWeb, pocketnow.com, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, NBC Bay Area, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Mobile Marketing Watch, Android Community, PhoneArena, SAI, Download Squad and Pulse2
Andrew Mason / The Daily Groupon:
Why Groupon Isn't in Australia — Since Groupon started in 2008, we've grown from one to thirty-seven countries. Australia, however, remains conspicuously absent from our lineup. Australian customers and press have been asking why we still haven't formally launched …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it's not you) — Steve Jobs once said, “People want to own their music.” — Someone better tell the folks who run the iTunes Store and its competitors. If you buy a digital music track or album from the iTunes store or one of its competitors, you don't own it.
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Pulse2, Thanks:paulfallon
Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Two faces of Android — The most remarkable thing about Android is that it is the first widely adopted Open Source client operating system. It's long been clear that Open Source is the best way to preserve infrastructural code from the vicissitudes of corporate and governmental volatility …
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TechCrunch, Thanks:kevinmarks
Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry PlayBook Web Fidelity Video (Multimedia, Games and Social Networking) — Check out our latest BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet video, just in time for CES 2011! When we posted the BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad comparison video, many Inside BlackBerry readers posted comments suggesting …
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CrackBerry.com blogs, BlackBerry Cool, eWeek, Download Squad, Pulse2, Liliputing, Techie Buzz, Erictric, The Next Web, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com and Know Your Cell
StatCounter Global Stats:
Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe in browser wars — Internet Explorer loses crown in major market for first time — Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland; Tuesday 4th January, 2011: Firefox overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to become the number one browser in Europe …
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Examiner, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, ZDNet, Macworld, The Register, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Pulse2, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, WinRumors, Softpedia News, The Next Web and TechSpot
Sarah Rotman Epps / Forrester Blogs:
US Tablet Sales Will More Than Double This Year — Today Forrester published its revised US consumer tablet forecast, updating its previous forecast from June 2010. When Apple's iPad first debuted, we saw the device as a game-changer but were too conservative with our forecast.
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AppleInsider, Mercury News, VentureBeat, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Pulse2, All about Microsoft Blog, Between the Lines Blog, MobileWhack.com, GigaOM, Tech Musings, SlashGear, BGR, NewsGrange, SAI, ReadWriteWeb and Adotas
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Consumer Electronics Show comes to Las Vegas this week — At CES, more than 2,500 companies are presenting new electronics and tech products. At least 120,000 attendees from 130 countries are expected to peruse the show floor. — You'd think people would have enough gadgets …
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GigaOM, App Advice, Yahoo! News, BetaNews, Macworld, InformationWeek, Forbes, CNET News, Guardian, Time, msnbc.com, Telecompetitor, Search Engine Journal, SiliconANGLE and Neowin.net
Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Boehner to livestream opening day of new Congress on Facebook — Washington (CNN) - Incoming House Speaker John Boehner wants all his friends to see him get sworn in on Wednesday - Facebook friends that is. — For the first time ever, Congress will be broadcast live on Facebook.
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gopleader.gov, ReadWriteWeb and Pulse2
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
HP holding webOS event February 9th; PalmPad line may be revealed — Uh oh, it's definitely going down — in addition to the flood of tablet devices headed to CES and Apple's rumored next event detailing the new iPad around February, HP just sent out invites to a webOS event of its own happening on February 9th.
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Digital Daily, Engadget, CNET News, Yahoo! News, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Tech Check, SAI, MobileCrunch, Pulse2, pocketnow.com, PhoneArena, MobileWhack.com and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:techdrew
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SCVNGR Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation — Location based game SCVNGR has raised another $15 million in a funding round led by European VC firm Balderton Capital, with participation from previous investors Google Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
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paidContent:UK, SCVNGR Blag, Local Media Watch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Guardian, SiliconANGLE, Xconomy, eMoney and alarm:clock
DealBook:
Qualcomm Is Said to Be Near $3.5 Billion Deal for Atheros — Qualcomm is near a deal to buy Atheros Communications, a semiconductor manufacturing company, for about $45 per share, or $3.5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. — A deal could be announced …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Sony's PlayStation Phone finally gets Xperia, PlayStation logos — We've heard of the mysterious, still-totally-unofficial PlayStation Phone running Android 2.2 in the past, but we'd also heard it could run 3.0 — thing is, that was back before we knew Gingerbread would be 2.3 …
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IntoMobile, Android Community, MobileWhack.com, PhoneArena, PlayStation LifeStyle, MobileBurn.com, VG247, Eurodroid, SlashGear and PhoneDog.com
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee partners with Iomega, NAS device running Boxee is coming — We are happy to announce that Iomega will be bringing out a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device running the Boxee software. — Boxee is a software company (even though some people mistake us for a set-top box maker) …
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Inquirer, GigaOM, Mashable!, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Pocket-lint, MediaMemo and Gadgetell
David Kaplan / paidContent:
USA Today Buys Tech Products Site Network Reviewed.com — Gannett (NYSE: GCI) USA Today has acquired Reviewed.com, a group of 12 product-review websites. The site provides in-depth, long takes on digital cameras, camcorders and high def televisions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire and Pulse2, more at Mediagazer »
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Amazon promises tablet-specific Kindle app for Android and Windows slates — You can read your Amazon-bought ebooks on your Kindle, your PC, your Mac, your mobile, and even on your iPad. Now, it's time to have them, contained in a tailor-made application, on your Android and Windows tablets as well.
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Examiner, eWeek, The Register, SAI, Pulse2, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Netflix' Next Destination: On Your Remote Control — Brilliant idea: Netflix and a number of consumer electronics companies have joined in a development effort to put Netflix-branded one-click buttons on remote controls that operate Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray disc players and other devices.
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BetaNews, PR Newswire, GigaOM, BlogsDNA, BGR, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area, CNET News, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Pulse2, Switched and SAI
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Garmin announces nüvi 2400 series GPS units, StreetPilot iPhone app — Today, via a barrage of press releases, navigation company Garmin announced its nüvi 2400 series of personal GPS devices and its first iPhone navigation application, StreetPilot.
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PC World, Garmin | Blog, Electronista, Business Wire, App Advice, Pulse2, MacRumors iPhone Blog, SlashGear, BlogsDNA, AppScout, TUAW and Softpedia News
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Supposedly Showing Off Its Answer To Apple TV And Google TV At CES — Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been a big hit for entertainment and online video, and we've heard that Microsoft is trying to court more media companies to the Xbox. — But it looks like the company is also going to unveil …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
So You Just Bought Sex.com For $13 Million - Now What? — Sex.com. It's a domain name with quite a history - heck, it was rocky enough for a book to be written solely about it. I'll spare you that story and let you discover it on your own, though. — TechCrunch had an exclusive interview …
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The Atlantic Online and Domain Name Wire, Thanks:robinwauters
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Honeycomb to Require Powerful Processor, Screen: OEM — 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. — That means that many existing Android tablets …
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Examiner, Search Engine Journal, The Digital Reader, TG Daily, Electricpig.co.uk, Android Phone Fans, Engadget, PhoneArena, Geekword, SAI, Pulse2, SiliconANGLE, Fonehome.co.uk, Softpedia News, DailyTech, Androinica, MobileBurn.com, MobileTechWorld and Geek.com, Thanks:saschasegan
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
With Fusion, AMD plans to stop being the underdog in chips — Making good on plans it laid in 2006, Advanced Micro Devices is finally announcing that its Fusion family of computer chips, which combine graphics functions with general computing power, are ready for prime time.
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AMD, The Windows Blog, eWeek, msnbc.com, Millennial Media, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, Pulse2 and New York Times
