1. Media Decoder: John Roberts Leaves CNN for Fox 20 minutes ago permalink

Executives at CNN confirmed Monday that John Roberts, who served as the morning anchor for the network since April 2007, would be joining Fox News as a national correspondent.

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Media Decoder: 'Tough Enough' Wrestling to Return on USA — The program was retired by MTV in 2003, but the USA network is bringing it back and pairing it with "Monday Night Raw."

2. Goldman invests $375m in Facebook 1 hour ago permalink

FT.com

Facebook has raised $500m from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies in a deal that values the social networking site at $50bn

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DealBook — 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.

BBC News : Deal values Facebook 'at $50bn'

MG Siegler / TechCrunch : $1 Billion Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch
Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay — Facebook's latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation , which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket , clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion), ...

3. App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry 1 minute ago permalink

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 ...

4. Silver screen strikes gold in China 2 hours ago permalink

FT.com

Film companies expect the hunger for entertainment of China's growing middle class as well as heavy investment in new cinemas to continue to fuel expansion for years

5. BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day 2 hours ago permalink

Leena Rao / TechCrunch

BitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed - the company just announced that it's hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent . That's up from 80 million monthly users most recently. The company also revealed that it has over 20 million daily active users, over 400,000 daily client downloads, and ...

6. Fitfinder re-launches as Floxx, for mapping the beautiful people 4 hours ago permalink

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe

Floxx , the re-launched Fitfinder now backed by serial UK Angel investor Doug Richard, has re-emerged after a difficult birth on the campus of a UK university. To rewind quickly: Last year Rich Martell , 21, a final-year computer sciences student at University College London, founded of a UK site integrated with Facebook and Twitter allowing ...

7. Post Pics 4 hours ago permalink

Www.nypost.com

The e-commerce giant is in talks to acquire LoveFilm International -- a British-based DVD and online movie-streaming company -- in a deal that would value the company at $312 million, according to the Sunday Times of London.

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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe : Of course LoveFilm wants to sell to Amazon.

8. New year bug hits French texters 4 hours ago permalink

BBC News

A bug hits French mobile phone customers, prompting some to send dozens of unintended new year messages.

9. Use Google to Write Your Blog Posts 6 hours ago permalink

Lee Odden / Online Marketing Blog

“To be a good search marketer, you must be a good searcher.” That’s sage advice for SEO and it’s also pretty handy for any kind of content marketing. Recently I’ve found myself offering more advice on content creation by showing some of Google’s Advanced search features in combination with other content ...

10. 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Link Builders 6 hours ago permalink

Jennifer Van Iderstyne / Search Engine Journal

A year in the internet world isn’t like a year in the real world. The time seems to move faster here. Internet years are kind of like dog years that way. Everything happens so quickly, changes come in rapid succession; news hits us in a constant and often overwhelming stream. New developments, tools and breakthroughs [...] Check out the SEO ...

11. Online Marketing Today – A Lot of Research, A Lot of Psychology 6 hours ago permalink

Gabriella Sannino / Search Engine Journal

When I went into marketing/communications in the 80’s, things were simpler. I spoke 5 languages, which pushed me into this field. What else could I do, be a translator? Not on your life. Not when I could be creative, come up with quantitative studies and research why / how people buy. It seemed simple, right? [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide ...

12. BBC Open Secrets: FOI: Some end-of-year reflections 7 hours ago permalink

Martin Stabe / Martin Stabe

Martin Rosenbaum: "I think we're at an intriguing stage in the development of freedom of information in the UK. ... This year has seen a rapid increase in the flow of government data being released to the public. It started during the previous Labour government and has accelerated under the coalition, particularly so far with financial ...

13. U.S. Stepping Up Fight on Afghan Smuggling 9 hours ago permalink

Www.nytimes.com

KABUL, Afghanistan — Janet Napolitano, the United States homeland security secretary, said Saturday that her department planned to triple the number of agents in Afghanistan to train border and customs workers — an effort that is partly aimed at curbing the smuggling of cash out of the country.

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14. Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you 10 hours ago permalink

Neville / NevilleHobson.com

Today at about 9am Pacific time, 5pm UK time, we’ll be recording this week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, as we do every Monday. Today’s episode will be show number 580. Today also marks the beginning of our sixth year of podcasting: show #1 went out on January 3, 2005. [...]

15. Adapting to a new mobile connection 11 hours ago permalink

Neville / NevilleHobson.com

Good news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the coming years must have a standard micro-USB socket for charging the device. GHacks.net reports that [...]

16. Media Cache: What’s Ahead for Media and Digital Businesses in 2011 11 hours ago permalink

ERIC PFANNER / NYT > Media

An unusual perspective on file-sharing, online privacy, pay walls, WikiLeaks and other issues of import to the media and digital worlds in 2011.

17. Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View 19 hours ago permalink

Order-order.com

Tat is one of the busiest posters on here but is afraid to admit it since he vowed never to return. He nicks other poples’s monikers and often tries to accuse others of being himself – real Secret Squirrel smoke’n'mirrors stuff. He also promised to bring down Guido’s blog and start one of his own but like everything else ...

18. Juries and the internet: Justice on line 19 hours ago permalink

Charles Arthur / Technology news

How tempting must it be for jurors to search for more information about the individual in the dock? Most of us check people out online some time or other: it satisfies our curiosity and can be a reasonable precaution. How tempting, then, must it be for jurors to search for more information about the individual in the dock? The judge may have ...

19. E-mails go 'missing' from Hotmail 1 day ago permalink