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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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Chris
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Chris Pirillo
Social Media Updates for 2011-01-03
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Social Media Updates for 2011-01-03 is a post from Chris Pirillo Social Media Updates for 2010-12-27 # Social Media Updates for 2010-12-27 # Windows Family Pack ending December 31st. [Microsoft is making you get a new family? Happy New Year!] # Dating sites are using Facebook to help ...
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In the first official response from Dems to the House GOP plan to repeal health reform, Senate Democrats have penned a sharply worded letter to House Speaker John Boehner vowing that repeal is a dead letter in the Senate, the Associated Press reports.
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DO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire United States, while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local vicinities. Also, the information in the regional reports is not used in calculating the ...
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ADAM NAGOURNEY
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NYT
SACRAMENTO — Jerry Brown began his return engagement as governor of California on Monday, using his inaugural address to call for an end to partisan battling that he said was paralyzing the state and to promise, in what is presumably the last chapter of his public life, to lead California out of one of the toughest budget crises of its ...
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Christina Warren
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Mashable
Brief approvals aside, Apple has never welcomed BitTorrent clients to its iOS platform with open arms. That’s why the recent approval of the iPhone app iControlbits, a $1.99 app designed as a front-end for popular Transmission BitTorrent client has us scratching our heads. Is Apple continuing to loosen its app review process, or was ...
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Just posted this to Shareable: a call that we leave this Internet behind and go build a new one. The moment the “net neutrality” debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network – its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic [...]
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Shareable.net
The Next Net
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The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network - its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation - is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them - that network loses its power to effect change. The mere fact ...
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Greetings from the future! Welcome back PlayStation fans, I hope you’re sporting your aluminum foil hats and gloves as you brace yourself for what is going to be a spectacular year in PlayStation gaming history. I kid you not, I’ve traveled into the future and have witnessed a world where PlayStation Move light posts tower over PS3 paved ...
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MG Siegler
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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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Ingrid Lunden
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MocoNews
Android's Gaining Fast, So What Can Apple And RIM Do To Compete?
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We’ve all heard the prediction that 2011 will be “the” year for Android, with more devices—handsets and tablets—based on the OS hitting the market than ever before, and more apps developed for the platform ( estimated now to be at 210,000 and counting). And if the last six months are anything to go by, in the U.S., ...
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Ryan Kim
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GigaOMTech
Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining
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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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After only 11 months, we leave the European blogosphere. We will stop translating on December 31. Before leaving, for dessert, here is our “best of” 2010, posts that made the deepest impression on us. Witnesses of what remains for us a beautiful adventure, the joy of shared discoveries of one country to another and the pride of having ...
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Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is offered refuge in the US as a means to end the country's political crisis.
 
Richard Durrett
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ESPN.com
Both contracts for the pitchers are one-year deals, though Rhodes has a club option for 2012. ESPN.com reported last month that Webb's contract was worth $3 million plus incentives that could make the total package between $8 and $10 million.
Leena Rao
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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 ...
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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MICHAEL KAMBER
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NYT
A panel the Supreme Court set up said it would issue rulings within two weeks on complaints of election abuse in September’s vote.
Police investigate after the body of a former US government official, John Wheeler, is found in a landfill site in the state of Delaware.
KATHARINE
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NYT
As Patrick J. Toomey prepared to be sworn in as Pennsylvania’s newest senator, he hardly sounded like a Tea Party firebrand.
CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
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NYT
Judith Wendell, left, a feng shui expert, was hired by Ziporah Reich to improve the energy in her apartment. Since worries about the future or negative vibes from the past are two things New Yorkers cannot complain to management about, a very tiny industry has evolved to fill these needs.
Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is being treated with powerful antibiotics as doctors make a last-ditch attempt to save her gangrenous leg.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Rich McKay, Atlanta Falcons president and co-chair of the NFL Competition Committee, said Wednesday at the league's owners meetings that he would like to see playoff teams re-seeded, with division winners not necessarily granted a home game.
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MICHAEL
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NYT
Candidates to lead the Republican National Committee met, including Michael Steele, the embattled incumbent.
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