The Republican's top House investigator has a suggestion for Attorney General Eric Holder: Step it up or step down. California Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh) says Holder is hurting the Obama administration because the Justice Department isn't doing more to investigate several issues.
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After exchanging New Year’s wishes with some of our best sources, we collected some information that could pave the way of release of new products, software or technologies. Here they are:
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Erick Schonfeld
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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), ...
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Mathew Ingram
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Are Facebook and Goldman Sachs Reinflating the Bubble?
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Goldman Sachs is reportedly investing $450 million in Facebook, giving the social networking company a theoretical market valuation of $50 billion and positioning it for what seems like an inevitable IPO. That may be good for Facebook and Goldman, but will it be good for investors?
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Introduced in late 2009 with iTunes 9, iTunes Extras have been billed as a way for movie studios to release additional features and functionalities with their iTunes Store video content, offering a way to compete with and even exceed bonus fe...
Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.
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Leena Rao
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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 ...
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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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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I’m not sure about that, but it’s pretty odd to see the Wall Street Journal editorial page come out in defense of Michelle Obama versus Sarah Palin: “Health-care reform on an individual basis is often just this simple: We could save a lot of money and a lot of grief by making smarter choices,” Mrs. [...]
Adam Serwer totally shreds her nonsense on the New Black Panther Party case, one of the right’s lodestones.
Prediction season has started early this year. Fortune, Techcrunch, Scoble, Louis Gray, and others are already picking winners in the Smartphone market, which most see as a two horse race between iPhone and Android. My prediction? Both will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will ...
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Daily Kos
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Last week the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured issued new report giving a grim assessment of the toll the recession and high unemployment has taken on the nation's workforce: the number of uninsured rose to 50.0 million in 2009, an increase of 4.3 million. There are now nearly as many uninsured non-elderly people as those ...
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By day they are Jewish community professionals, bloggers, social media consultants and community activists, but by night they unleash their pent up sensual energy and become the sexiest Jews known to mankind. They are this years 100 Sexiest Jews on Twitter. With fingers and minds well honed from crafting clever 140 character missives, these Jews ..
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks), Hugh McGuire (The Book Oven, LibriVox, iambik, Media Hacks) ...
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The communicatrix
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It was 1.1.11. The first day of a new decade, all shiny, all ones, all the promise of a big, brave, beautiful new year stretched out before us. It was the reboot, the fresh start, the alpha to 12/31/10′s omega. It was hope, objectified. It was intention, projected. Or, you know, it was what we [...]
Today, Intel announced their next generation processor architecture known as "Sandy Bridge" (or 2nd Generation Core processor). The new processors are built on the 32nm process and integrate the processor, memory controller and graphics on ...
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Globus International Construction and Development Investments is suing Ratio, owned by Yigal Landau and Ligad Rotlevy, to void an arbitration agreement that had all but taken shape with the firm. Globus alleges the Ratio owners' underworld connections had skewed the process.
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It turns out that we have widely varying levels of psychological connectness to our future selves, and the ‘me’ of today is more likely to defer rewards to the future if there is a belief that the ‘me’ of a distant tomorrow will be very like today’s. Daniel Bartels and Oleg Urminsky explore this intertemporal selfishness, by setting ...
So yesterday’s post was for me to get out the story of 2000-2010 that had been percolating in my head over the past several days as Kristin and I were discussing how much has changed. And I realize that the post actually covers more than 10 years and that it isn’t a proper decade. I mean beginning of 2000 to end of 2010 is really ...
Much has happened since Apple CEO Steve Jobs last appeared on the D stage. At that time, in May 2007, the iPhone had not yet arrived at market, the app ecosystem it would usher in was still gestating and the iPad was simply a long-running rumor.
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