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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 it trading publicly.
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Goldman’s Facebook coup
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The NYT reports that Goldman Sachs is investing $450 million of its own money into Facebook and that it’s bringing along $50 million from Digital Sky Technologies and as much as $1 billion more from its high-net-worth clients — all at a valuation of $50 billion.
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An anonymous reader writes "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. As first reported by DealBook, Goldman has invested $450 million in a deal that values Facebook at $50 billion. As part of the deal, Goldman is looking to raise as much as $ ...
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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 those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers. But despite its surge ...
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CES 2011 Preview: 3 Mobile Trends to Expect
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The annual Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes. And yes, that list sounds a ...
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Cameron Diaz and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez recover after their New Year's Eve festivities.
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Omg.yahoo.com
Glam Slam: Five For January
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Happy 2011! Hope you had a wonderful holiday season! Ready for the new year and a fresh start? Here are five things to help you kick off the year in style.
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Report: Lindsay Lohan Released From Rehab
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The 24-year-old actress, who reportedly plans to move from her West Hollywood pad to a place in Venice Beach, California, checked into the center in September after she tested positive for cocaine use just weeks after serving a stint in jail and rehab from a 2007 DUI arrest.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's Hotmail service, the world's most-used online e-mail system, is back to normal operations on Monday after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a deleted mail folder. The...
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News.cnet.com
Missing e-mail, folder bug in Hotmail fixed
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A bug that made e-mails and folders go missing for some Windows Live Hotmail users has been fixed according to Microsoft. "We have identified the source of the issue (and) have restored e=mail access to those who were affected," the company said on the Windows Live Solution Center help site yesterday afternoon. "We recognize that even though we ...
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Microsoft Says Lost Hotmail E-Mails Restored
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Microsoft says it has fixed the glitch that caused some Hotmail users to lose all of their e-mails. Frantic Hotmail users posted complaints on Microsoft online message board over the weekend saying messages had disappeared.
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is hospitalized again and will have part of a leg amputated, according to her representative. John Blanchette said cancerous lesions started appearing on one of Gabor's legs, which were examined Sunday, and gangrene was imminent. Gabor, 93, was being prepared for surgery Sunday night. Her leg will be ...
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The Sunday Conversation: With Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Fisher takes on the scandalous breakup of her parents' marriage, when her father, Eddie Fisher, left her mother, Debbie Reynolds, for Elizabeth Taylor; her erstwhile marriage to Paul Simon, her turn as Princess Leia in "Star Wars" and its continuing ripples and much more in her savagely witty one-woman Broadway play, "Wishful Drinking," ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp is on course to sell its social networking unit MySpace by mid-2011, business news network CNBC reported on Monday. The company will also lay off more than half of its staff the news network said, citing sources. A...
Free Apps where you can log food on the go and view snapshots of your most recent Activity Manager Dashboard. Free Apps where you can log food on the go and view snapshots of your most recent Activity Manager Dashboard.
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One of the more contentious political battles this year figures to be between the Obama White House and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. -- the Republicans' top congressional investigator in his role as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Christina Milian's brief marriage to music producer Terius "The-Dream" Nash was by no means, well, dreamy, and now she's ready to dish the dirty details.
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Image Credit: Merrick MortonIn a Collider interview promoting the DVD release of The Social Network, director David Fincher revealed that he hesitated before signing onto his upcoming adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo because it dealt with some of the same dark themes touched in his films Zodiac and Seven. “Dragon Tattoo came ...
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By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp is making its foray into the tablet war, offering a 10-inch device it says will be comparable in price to Apple's iPad. The Toshiba Tablet, which will be available in the first half of 2011...
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Techcrunch.com
Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer
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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.
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In one scene, two female Navy sailors stand in a shower stall aboard the aircraft carrier, pretending to wash each other. They joke about how they should get six minutes under the water instead of the mandated three.
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Back in October we showed you a way to create visual speed dial icons on your iPhone's home screen, but the process required a bit of work. One resourceful reader simplified that process and created iSpeedDial, which works much better.
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Samsung has sold 10 million Galaxy S smartphones globally since sales began last June, the company said.
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Famed hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz, who among other things helped crack the iPhone, reckons he's found what are essentially the keys to the PlayStation 3. And has posted them online for the world to see.
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'Epic fail' Part Deux - Geohot releases PS3 root key
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After the so-called âepic PS3 security bypassâ announced last week, Sonyâs console has taken a second punch with notorious hacker Geohot publishing the PS3?s root key. Itâs not the first time George Hotz has taken on Sony; last year he fashioned a custom PS3 firmware in response to the company removing âInstall Other OSâ
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The former co-anchor of American Morning will be a senior national correspondent with Fox.
The new BitTorrent 6 for Windows brings together BitTorrent's proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client. For questions about the BitTorrent client, take a look at the FAQ in our support center, or visit the client forums.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer lost 1.4 percentage points of usage share in December, the largest one-month decline for the browser in more than two years, a Web metrics company said Saturday. Read the latest...
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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Carcinoma: Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover body organs. For example, carcinoma can arise in the breast, colon, liver, lung, prostate, and stomach.
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