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

DealBook: In Goldman’s Facebook Deal, an Opening for Private Clients
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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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$1 Billion Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree. Goldman Stake Values Facebook At $50 Billion; Is An IPO Ahead?   —  The SEC is going to want to see more transparency from the social networking giant, analysts say, and that makes it more likely Facebook shares will someday be publicly traded.

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$1 Billion Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree. 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), ...

2. What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management?  permalink

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What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management? Factory Worker Leaks Hi-Res Photos + Video of 3DS   —  A worker in one of Nintendo’s factories has smuggled a 3DS off the assembly line, and given us a sharp picture to admire. Updated with nine more pictures.

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What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management? Die Magie der Netzwerke   —  Warum sich manche Inhalte explosionsartig im Internet verbreiten - und wie Marketingstrategen das nutzen wollenVier Musiker, vier iPhones und ein Mitschnitt per Handykamera - der Aufwand für ein U-Bahn-Konzert der New Yorker Band Atomic Tom war relativ bescheiden. Das Ergebnis ist es nicht: Innerhalb weniger Tage klickten mehr als eine ...

3. Comment les opérateurs expliquent le «bégaiement» de textos  permalink

Comment les opérateurs expliquent le «bégaiement» de textos
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Une erreur informatique a perturbé l'envoi des SMS durant la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre, provoquant une explosion de la facture pour certains abonnés.

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Forfaits internet et mobile : les tarifs augmentent   —  La hausse de la TVA sur les forfaits triple play et mobiles sera répercutée par les opérateurs à partir du 1er février.  Tous n'appliquent pas les mêmes règles de calcul, mais pour le consommateur, une seule règle : ça augmente.

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Comment les opérateurs expliquent le «bégaiement» de textos «Moins de voitures brûlées» à la Saint-Sylvestre que l’an dernier   —  Brice Hortefeux se refusant à communiquer les chiffres exacts, des sources policières se bornent à donner la tendance. Le PS réclame «un bilan transparent».

4. Wednesday's Football Pep Rally on -- Rain or Shine  permalink

Wednesday's Football Pep Rally on -- Rain or Shine
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The Navy football pep rally on the USS Midway will be held on Wednesday at 5:00 PM in San Diego rain or shine as it has been moved inside to the galley of the Midway. There is no admission charge and the Navy football team, cheerleaders and band will be in attendance.

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5. 5 Free iPhone Alarm Clocks That Actua...  permalink

5 Free iPhone Alarm Clocks That Actua...
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When Apple’s alarm clock app failed, letting down a multitude of users on New Year’s Day and January 2 due to the bug the company still hasn’t fully explained, we started looking for alternatives.

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5 Free iPhone Alarm Clocks That Actua... Alarm clock apps for iOS and Mac   —  Now that the iPhone's built-in Clock app has suffered two alarm-hindering hiccups , some users are ready for an alternative. Sure, Apple says the latest issue, affecting non-recurring alarms set for January 1st and 2nd of 2011, will be "fixed" as of January 3 . However, some of us here at TUAW experienced the problem again this morning, and ...

6. Apple hopes to make shopping more social  permalink

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This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office made public Apple's patent, "Social Networking in Shopping Environments" that describes how customers could use a portable electronic device, like an iPhone, to network with one another while shopping.

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Apple hopes to make shopping more social Apple Surpasses $300 Billion in Market Capitalization   —  On the first trading day of 2011, Apple's stock has jumped to a new high and broken through yet another psychological milestone by pushing past $300 billion in market capitalization. AAPL stock currently sits at nearly $330 per share with a market c...

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Apple hopes to make shopping more social Apple stock hits a new intra-day all time high and Gene Munster weighs in   —  Apple stock ( AAPL ) has hit a new all time intra-day high by a mile rising 7.25 percent as of about 11 AM. At last look it's sitting at $329.81 and is happily ringing in the new year on the first day of 2011 trading. It may be totally coincidental, our old friend Gene Munster , analyst for Piper Jaffray has announced a few predictions for 2011. ...

7. Halte a la repression en tunisie rassemblement à lille le 6 janvier  permalink

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Halte a la repression en tunisie : rassemblement � lille 6 janvier HALTE A LA REPRESSION EN TUNISIE RASSEMBLEMENT DE SOLIDARITE PLACE G�n�ral DE GAULLE LILLE JEUDI 6 JANVIER 2011 � 18 h. Soyons nombreux et nombreuses. Le vendredi 17 d�cembre 2010 a d�marr� un mouvement de protestation � Sidi Bouzid dont le d�clenchement fut un �v�nement grave : ...

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Halte a la repression en tunisie rassemblement à lille le 6 janvier Une planète dévastée par les catastrophes naturelles en 2010   —  L'année passée, séismes, feux de forêts et autres tempêtes ont causé le bilan le plus lourd des trente dernières années.

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Ce qui a cartonné à la télé en 2010   —  Comme les années passées, TF1 truste la quasi-totalité d'un top 100 des meilleures audiences dominé par la Coupe du monde de foot.  Mais des films français et des séries américaines sont également à la fête. Retour sur les plus grands succès télé des douze derniers mois.

8. Filme porno clasice - top 10  permalink

Filme porno clasice - top 10
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Daca iti plac filmele porno, iata o lista cu 10 cele mai bune filme porno clasice la care sa te uiti. Desi s-ar putea sa te atraga noile productii din domeniu, nu uita ca trebuie sa le vezi mai intai pe cele clasice inainte sa faci orice judecata.

9. Most Popular Sound FX  permalink

Most Popular Sound FX
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10. Top Places to Watch TV Online for Free  permalink

Top Places to Watch TV Online for Free
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I’m tired of seeing people being ripped off with so called TV on PC softwares, so we created a list of FREE websites that allow you to watch live TV in your browser (great if you don’t have cable or satellite TV).

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Top Places to Watch TV Online for Free PrimeSense and ASUS team, bring Kinect-like Wavi Xtion to your living room TV   —  PrimeSense provides some of the brains behind Microsoft's Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie ; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an ...

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Top Places to Watch TV Online for Free TV-Konsum: Deutsche gucken noch mehr Fernsehen   —  Trotz Konkurrenz durch das Internet hat der TV-Konsum im vergangenen Jahr ein Rekordhoch erreicht. Täglich 223 Minuten verbringen die Zuschauer vor dem Bildschirm.

11. New iTunes Features Aim To Outdo DVD  permalink

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Some of the coolest so-called “extras” embedded only on the iTunes’ version of several recent film releases from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures aren’t even mentioned in their promotional materials. That’s because Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is quietly testing new features with an eye on a future in which digital ...

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12. With high hopes for test scores, Canby School District invests in iPod touches and iPads  permalink

With high hopes for test scores, Canby School District invests in iPod touches and iPads
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View full sizeDoug Beghtel/The OregonianHannah Evans practices math problems on a school-issued iPod touch in teacher Kelly Turcotte's fourth-grade class at Canby's Philander Lee Elementary. While some schools have banned cellular phones and mobile Internet devices, the Canby School District is embracing portable media players.

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With high hopes for test scores, Canby School District invests in iPod touches and iPads 6G iPod nano hack just beginning of long road to nano apps   —  Eighteen-year-old James Whelton never imagined he'd become a minor Internet celebrity, nor did he plan to kickstart a race to hack Apple's sixth-generation touchscreen iPod nano. But the secondary student from Cork, Ireland found himself doing just that this week after winning a pink 8GB iPod nano in a student Web design contest. Now the teen is ...

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IPod Touch in the Classroom- Do’s and Don’ts: “Learning in Hand Blog” by Tony Vincent   —  Education] iPod Touch in the Classroom- Do’s and Don’ts: “Learning in Hand Blog” by Tony Vincent Tony Vincent, from Learning in Hand, has compiled an excellent list of suggestions for using the iPod Touch with students…

13. Lebensmittel: Mehr als 1000 Bauernhöfe wegen Dioxin-Funden gesperrt  permalink

Lebensmittel: Mehr als 1000 Bauernhöfe wegen Dioxin-Funden gesperrt
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Zahlreiche Bauernhöfe in Deutschland dürfen keine Tiere mehr verkaufen. Sie haben vermutlich mit hochgiftigem Dioxin belastetes Futter erhalten.

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14. Faule Kredite: Bank of America zahlt Milliarden an Immobilienfinanzierer  permalink

Faule Kredite: Bank of America zahlt Milliarden an Immobilienfinanzierer
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Faule Hypothekenkredite kommen die Bank of America teuer zu stehen. Für einen Vergleich mit den Immobilienfinanzierern Fannie Mae und Freddie Mac zahlt die größte Bank der USA fast drei Milliarden Dollar.

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Faule Kredite: Bank of America zahlt Milliarden an Immobilienfinanzierer Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank Plays Defense   —  Since WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, Bank of America has been hunting for signs that its systems have been compromised.

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Loan Settlements To Cost Bank Of America Billions   —  The banking giant will take an approximately $2 billion charge in its fourth quarter as it settles claims over soured home loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The settlements are tied to Countrywide Financial Corp. residential mortgage loans. Bank of America bought Countrywide in 2008.

15. Verizon grabbing iPhone domains  permalink

Verizon grabbing iPhone domains
Kelly Hodgkins / TUAW

A report circulating over the holiday weekend suggests Verizon is buying up Verizon iPhone-related domain names in anticipation of an impending CDMA iPhone launch. The domain names, iphoneonverizon.com and iphoneforverizon.com, were transferred to Verizon Wireless Trademark Services, LLC, a company that also holds the main Verizonwireless.com ...

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Verizon grabbing iPhone domains Verizon Buying Up iPhone-Related Domains   —  Verizon appears to be buying up Verizon iPhone-related domain names from their previous owners. While doing some research for today's earlier story on the appearance of Verizon iPhone 4 accessories, we discovered that a company called "Verizon Trademark Services LLC" now owns both "iphoneonverizon.com" as well as "iphoneforverizon.com." The same ...

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Verizon grabbing iPhone domains Bioserie bioplastic iPhone 4 cases: Review and giveaway   —  Is there a better way to start a new year than to get an innovative new case for your iPhone 4? Bioserie recently sent TUAW two of their iPhone 4 cases to review and give away to our readers. As you know, we get a lot of different iPhone and iPad cases to test, so what makes these different? It's that they're not made out of petroleum-based ...

16. 5 key lessons in Knowledge Management  permalink

5 key lessons in Knowledge Management
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17. Wie das CMS Betreiber internationaler Websites unterstützt: Lokalisierung mit TYPO3  permalink

Wie das CMS Betreiber internationaler Websites unterstützt: Lokalisierung mit TYPO3
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TYPO3 stellt seine Eigenschaft als Enterprise Content Management System unter anderem bei der Verwaltung von internationalen Websites unter Beweis. Dieser Artikel führt mit Hilfe eines Beispielszenarios in die Möglichkeiten der Lokalisierung mit TYPO3 ein und beleuchtet technische Aspekte der Übersetzungsarbeit mit TYPO3.

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Wie das CMS Betreiber internationaler Websites unterstützt: Lokalisierung mit TYPO3 TYPO3 4-5: Paginator – Türchen 18   —  Seit der Beta1 von TYPO3 4-5 gibt es mit dem Paginator ein tolles Fluid-Widget, mit dem ein Pagebrowser bei Extbase-Extensions möglich ist. Das Snippet ist einfach zu konfigurieren und funktioniert tadellos.

18. DIY telepresence robot uses PrimeSense Kinect drivers for extremely awkward push-ups  permalink

DIY telepresence robot uses PrimeSense Kinect drivers for extremely awkward push-ups
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From enhancing your WoW game to putting you in Tom Hanks's shoes , DIYers the world o'er really do seem to love Kinect . And what do we have here? Taylor Veltrop's Veltrobot remote telepresence 'bot uses the PrimeSense open source Kinect drivers for tracking the user's skeleton, with a modified Kondo KHR-1HV mirroring the operator's movements ( ...

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Kinect designers to debut motion controller for PCs   —  The debut of a motion-sensing controller designed for PCs has been announced by PrimeSense, the creator of the Kinect for XBox 360. The company has teamed up with Asus to make the device, which is in turn creating a dedicated online store for selling compatible apps. The controller goes by the name "WAVI Xtion," and will enable gesture controls ...

19. Microsoft restores missing e-mails from Hotmail accounts  permalink

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Over on the Windows Live Solution Center , a number of Windows Live Hotmail users have been complaining about missing e-mails. For the last three days, users have reported that their e-mails have been deleted from their Inbox and other folders or that e-mails sent to them never arrived. Microsoft has since fixed the problem, after declaring that ...

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20. Nouvelle médiation africaine en Côte-d'Ivoire  permalink

Nouvelle médiation africaine en Côte-d'Ivoire
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Mandaté par l'Union africaine, Raila Odinga, le Premier ministre kényan, était aux côtés de trois émissaires de la Cédéao. La première mission a échoué, la semaine dernière.

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Jeune femme percutée par un chauffard: un suspect en garde à vue   —  La jeune femme de 18 ans a été tuée par une voiture au Kremlin-Bicêtre la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre.