1. DealBook: In Goldman’s Facebook Deal, an Opening for Private Clients  permalink

DealBook: In Goldman’s Facebook Deal, an Opening for Private Clients
SUSANNE CRAIG / NYT

As part of a deal that values Facebook at $50 billion, Goldman Sachs is offering wealthy clients a chance to invest in the company without its going public.

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Are Facebook and Goldman Sachs Reinflating the Bubble? 40 New APIs: Google, Facebook Analytics and PayPal Subscriptions   —  This week we had 40 new APIs added to our API directory including a social platform service, mobile push notification platform, random quote generator, file sharing and hosting site, digital asset management system, vehicle fleet tracking service, social media analytics platform, Google billing service and three ways to take payments and ...

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Goldman deal values Facebook at $50bn   —  Facebook has raised $500m for further expansion from Goldman Sachs and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies in a deal that values the dominant social network at $50bn.

2. Et toi, est-ce que tu Buzz ?  permalink

Et toi, est-ce que tu Buzz ?
Www.pluzz.fr

Pour ceux qui ne comprennent rien à Internet, Enora Malagré enseigne les rudiments de l'humour du Web et fait découvrir ce qu'est un fail, un fake, un poke, un geek, un lol...

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La mort de Bernard Montiel, le journalisme à la remorque du LOL Ce que j’ai retenu de 2010   —  Afin de définitivement tourner la page 2010, rien de tel que les rétrospectives, qui fleurissent actuellement sur la toile et dans les médias. La mienne était dans les tuyaux mais quelques jours de repos succédés par un petit souci technique ce week-end ne m’ont pas permis de la publier avant. Sur le même sujet Secrets de

3. Enterprise Collaboration Tops List of 2011 Organizational Priorities  permalink

Enterprise Collaboration Tops List of 2011 Organizational Priorities
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January brings us into a new year, a time when many organizations are re-evaluating their strategic initiatives and priorities. Curious to know what items top the list, we asked you in December what your organization’s top priority was for 2011. Here are the results. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View ...

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2010's Report Card: CMS, Google, Enterprise Collaboration and More   —  Welcome to 2011, everyone. During the holiday break, we CMSWire kids pushed some nifty year-in-review pieces on everything from content management to Google. Here’s a roll-up of those highlights, just in case you were too busy drinking eggnog, pouring tambiko or spinning the dreidel. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free ...

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Political essay by 93-year-old tops Christmas bestseller list in France   —  This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 21.05 GMT on Sunday 26 December 2010. A version appeared on p21 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Monday 27 December 2010. It was last modified at 14.06 GMT on Tuesday 28 December 2010.

4. How social groups split into factions  permalink

How social groups split into factions
Cornell Science and

New Cornell research has generated a mathematical description of how social networks under stress evolve into opposing factions.

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Mobile, Social, Games, Texts...and Health   —  An overview of Pew Internet's latest findings about technology adoption, with an emphasis on mobile use, social networks, and gaming.

5. App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry  permalink

App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry
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 ...

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App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining   —  While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.

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Safari for iOS needs a text size preference and text reflow   —  One of the features I miss most in Safari for iOS is the ability to increase text size. Sure, zooming in increases text size, but all too often it also makes the lines of text too long to fit on the screen of my iPod Touch. Having to swipe left and right for each line of text makes reading zoomed text on a small iOS device very annoying very ...

6. Bits: After Apple Says Otherwise, iPhone Alarm Still Remains Silent  permalink

Bits: After Apple Says Otherwise, iPhone Alarm Still Remains Silent
NICK BILTON / NYT

IPhone customers were still confused and upset after the phone’s built-in alarm failed to go off for the third day in a row.

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Bits: After Apple Says Otherwise, iPhone Alarm Still Remains Silent IPhone alarms in New Year glitch   —  A glitch on Apple's iPhone stops its alarm clock going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year.

7. J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B  permalink

J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

With e-commerce spending performing well over the past holiday season, retailers are hoping this trend will continue into 2011. J.P. Morgan senior analyst Imran Kahn has released his annual report forecasting trends for the New Year that includes a number of positive projections for the e-commerce industry. The report forecasts that e-commerce ...

8. Honeycomb Needs Powerful Chip, Screen  permalink

Honeycomb Needs Powerful Chip, Screen
Www.pcmag.com

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.

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9. Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank Plays Defense  permalink

Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank Plays Defense
NELSON / NYT

Since WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, Bank of America has been hunting for signs that its systems have been compromised.

10. Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer  permalink

Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

While plenty of people predicted that the iPad would kill the Kindle when it first came out ( including us ), that turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. The Kindle went on to become the best selling product in Amazon's history over the holidays, selling an estimated 8 million units last year. The Kindle is a very different device which appeals to ...

11. Austin Ventures  permalink

Austin Ventures
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Austin Ventures has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services, software and ...

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12. API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends  permalink

API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this each of the last five years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. There were 1,019 new APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the number added in 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as social APIs were the most popular and the influence of mobile is clear.

13. La VoIP dans le collimateur des autorités chinoises  permalink

La VoIP dans le collimateur des autorités chinoises
ZDNet News

Les services comme Skype sont désormais illégaux dans le pays. Officiellement, cette interdiction a pour objectif de préserver les intérêts économiques des opérateurs nationaux.

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La VoIP dans le collimateur des autorités chinoises Los 50 libros de ADN Cultura   —  El suplemento ADN Cultura de “La Nación” ha elegido los 50 mejores libros del año. No se quedó corto para elegir, por lo visto. Libros de todas las editoriales, argentinos y de otros países y lenguas, novelas, cuentos y ensayos.. para todos los gustos digamos. La lista incluye: 

14. Philippine Local Govts Keen on Cloud, But Acknowledge Challenges in Standardization  permalink

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Cloud computing is seen as a way to save costs while standardizing technology. The Philippines’ second-largest city intends to move its information management systems into the cloud, but has expressed concerns due to a lack of standards and because of potential challenges from the country’s political framework. Read full story... ...

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Philippine Local Govts Keen on Cloud, But Acknowledge Challenges in Standardization Filipino city expresses keen cloud interest   —  Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines with a population of 800,000, has expressed a keen interest in cloud. The city government said it is a way for them to cut cost by maintaining less infrastructure and applications.

15. Votre auto-entreprise est mobile  permalink

Votre auto-entreprise est mobile
Www.monae.fr

Accédez à une version du service optimisée pour iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, et plus généralement tous les smartphone disposant d’un navigateur web compatible javascript.

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16. Why Being Grossed Out is Good for You  permalink

Why Being Grossed Out is Good for You
Discovery News

Maggots. Rotten meat. Pus-oozing sores. Grossed out yet? Probably. And a good thing, too. Just as fear protects us from a lion that would eat us disgust keeps us away from tiny little animals that would kill us.

17. 2000 vs. 2010 en un coup d’oeil  permalink

2000 vs. 2010 en un coup d’oeil
Eric / Presse-Citron

Après les rétrospectives, les bilans comparatifs sur l’évolution du monde entre 2000 et 2010. Selon 01net, qui propose son flash-back sur l’an 2000,  « le « Y2K » ouvrait en tout cas avec fracas une décennie qui a tout changé. Android, Facebook, YouTube, iPod : en 2000, tous ces produits aujourd’hui incontournables n’ ...

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2000 vs. 2010 en un coup d’oeil 2000 Vs. 2010: How the world has changed   —  It's hard to believe how much the world has transformed in the past decade — but our handy infographic tells the whole story. Click to enlarge! So what's changed? Technology has gotten unimaginably smaller and better — just look at the differences between an iMac in 2000 and an iPad in 2010. (See here for a similar comparison.) The ...

18. New Intel chip arrives with Hollywood in tow  permalink

New Intel chip arrives with Hollywood in tow
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Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow--and Hollywood is playing a big role. Sandy Bridge--or what Intel now calls the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family--is a big step for the chipmaker because, for the first time in a mainstream product, the graphics chip is grafted directly onto the main processor, ...

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19. Six Ways Organic Search Can Make You Smarter About Your Business  permalink

Six Ways Organic Search Can Make You Smarter About Your Business
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In an Internet business environment that expects immediate results, online marketers have overlooked the power of SEO, or organic search, as a top revenue-generating channel. It can also teach you how to run your business in a smarter way.

20. Martin Winckler : « Internet est ma fenêtre sur le monde »  permalink

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Romancier et essayiste, Marc Winckler est l'auteur de plusieurs romans, dont le dernier, « Le Choeur des femmes » (POL), et de séries télévisées. Il a aussi son site personnel. Il répond à la question : Qu'est-ce qu'internet a changé à la vie des écrivains ?