Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
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What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean?
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Facebook has raised $500 million in new "venture capital" at a $50 billion valuation, according to a report late last night from DealBook. Not sure if the $50 billion is a pre-money or post-money mark, but I'm also not sure if such niggling details matter at such a nose-bleedingly high stratosphere.
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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.
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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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App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry
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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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2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?
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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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For their part, the Obama administration and Democrats, who largely lost the health care message war in the raucous legislative process, see the renewed debate as a chance to show that the law will be a boon to millions of Americans and hope to turn “Obamacare” from a pejorative into a tag for one of the president’s proudest ...
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After several months of slow growth, Bing reached an all-time high market share of 11.8% in November 2010. That’s according to the latest report from comScore.
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Increased taxes on high earners should be the first step toward balancing the federal budget, a new poll suggested Monday. Raising taxes on the rich beats out cuts to defense spending, Medicare and Social Security as U.S. adults' top preference on how to close the deficit, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.
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If there’s one piece of economic wisdom I hope people will grasp this year, it’s this: Even though we may finally have stopped digging, we’re still near the bottom of a very deep hole.
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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, talks about the need to ensure the Federal Reserve is more transparent in its actions. Issa, a California Republican speaking with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also discusses tax policy and his ...
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Vizio might just be the next big consumer electronic’s company with a set of announcements that should make the rest of the industry take notice. The company has long been a top player in the US domestic LCD wars and seems to be set to utilize their brand with a host of new software and hardware options.
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Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afghan War strategy.
Doomsayers will sing the licensing blues. By refusing to license the operating system—iOS, in this case—the iPhone will drown in a sea of Android smartphones. We’ve seen it before: Apple is repeating the mistake that allowed Windows clones to scuttle the Mac.
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IPhone alarm bug still present on January 3rd
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Apple seems to have a little problem with its iPhone alarm. First it was DST adjustment that sent things aloof and then January 1st rolls around and the alarm bug makes another appearance. Apple claims that the bug was supposed to be fixed on January 3rd, but the bug is...
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John Wall can dance. So can Chris Brown (he pulls off some tricks around the 1:45 mark). So the NBA player and the singer had a “Dougie-off” in DC over the weekend. I wish I could dance. If John Wall is ever teaching a dance class on the side, I’m totally signing up. Please don’t let Colin Cowherd see this video. He may ...
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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC’s 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term.
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ATLANTA -- A German shepherd that went missing from Hartsfield-Jackson was found dead along Interstate 75 on Saturday, according to the Georgia Humane Society.
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Sadly, the debate for RNC chairman candidates has been remarkably boring. But the group just asked about voter fraud and what they're going to do about it. Needlessly to say, it's candidate is saying all the right things about vote fraud. Now the candidate from Michigan, Saul Anuzis, is talking about the problem they've had in the state's "urban ...
The five boys I met in Kabul, Afghanistan, from the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers were young – the oldest only 20 – and as charming and well-mannered as teenage boys can humanly be. Their mentor, Hakim, displayed patience and tireless compassion.
The debate for candidates for the RNC chairmanship is now underway. We'll have updates shortly.
When the 112th U.S. Congress is officially sworn in on Jan. 5, two black Republicans will be among the new majority in the House of Representatives. Do you think the G.O.P. has made progress in attracting African-Americans to the party?
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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. The Kindle is a very different device which appeals to ...
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IPad publishing: time to switch to v2.0
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There is no way around this fact: the first batch of magazines adapted to the iPad failed to deliver. Six months after the initial excitement, the mood has turned turned sour. See the figures below, they show the downturn in circulation for the much publicized iPad versions of a few American magazines:
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