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• Profile on Mark Zuckerberg

  
  Young Entrepreneur Blog - Small Business & Entrepreneurs Blog — Authority: 422
  “The biggest risk you can take is to take no risk” – Mark Zuckerberg To be classified as one of the world’s most influential people at the age of 24 is quite an achievement. Most people of that age are still trying to formulate their ultimate direction in life, let alone have achieved what the vast majority ...
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• Tweets Are Coming to LinkedIn

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  Twitter continues to spread its wings across the Web. On Tuesday, LinkedIn and Twitter announced a partnership to bring tweets to LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. This comes on the heels of announcements by Microsoft and Google that they would incorporate tweets into their search results. The ...
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• Tweets Are Coming to LinkedIn

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Twitter and LinkedIn have struck a deal for tweets to be shared on LinkedIn, boosting the efforts of both services to be a hub for professional conversation.
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• Electronic Arts Buys Playfish, a Social Games Start-Up

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Electronic Artss acquisition of Playfish is a vote of confidence for the social gaming industry, which has been involved in a controversy recently.
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• Electronic Arts Buys Playfish, a Social Games Start-Up

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  Electronic Arts, the video game company, announced Monday that it had acquired Playfish, one maker of the social-network-based games that have become so popular this year. The acquisition is more evidence that, as we wrote this weekend, online games that make money by selling virtual goods are turning into a ...
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• Google to buy AdMob for $750 mn

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  San Francisco, Nov 10 (DPA) Google is to pay $750 million to buy AdMob, a provider of advertising on mobile phones, the internet search leader announced Monday.The deal is the third largest ever undertaken by Google and underscores the company’s strategy of extending its online advertising dominance to the mobile ...
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• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
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• Google bets big on mobile advertising in $750-million acquisition of AdMob

  
  L.A. Times Tech Blog — Authority: 747
  Google Inc. has shown which way it believes the winds are blowing by forking over $750 million for mobile advertising firm AdMob, one of the Web giants largest acquisitions to date.  As AdMob itself has described, the volume and effectiveness of mobile advertising has been skyrocketing over the last several years ...
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• Virtual Goods, Scams, Investigative Reporting And The Media

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  For many years, weve been quite skeptical of any business model in virtual worlds/social networks that rely on "buying virtual goods." Thats because these are all based on artificial scarcities, and as we all know (hopefully, by now), relying on artificial scarcities for a business model is incredibly risky, ...
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• Silicon Valley Coming To Indy

  
  | Creo Quality, LLC — Authority: 432
  There were two business news stories in Indianapolis last week that are rooted in Silicon Valley:Scale Computing has grand opening ceremony at Purdue Research Park Indianapolis facility, their new home and headquarters.Beckman Coulter will add 100 jobs in Indianapolis in 2010.Scale Computing launched its data-storage ...
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• Google acquired Admob for $750 million in stock

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 440
  Google Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock. This acquisition will enhance Google’s existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising, while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this ...
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• Tesla Having 10 Percent Of Danish and Norwegian Sports Car Market. Oh, And They Are Profitable (Video)

  
  ArcticStartup — Authority: 557
  Electric cars are all the rage currently and in many ways its also the holy grail of Detroit and thus plays a disproportionately large role in the US politics. To get an idea of how big a role cars alone play, the federal program paid individual car owners up to $4,500 to replace their current vehicles with new ones ...
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• Startup Failure: Seattle’s Stigma, Boston’s Chip on Its Shoulder, and Silicon Valley’s Badge of Honor

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  startups , culture , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: “People say if you fail in Seattle, you’re screwed,” said Marcelo Calbucci. “If you fail in the Bay Area, you just have a badge of honor.” We were at the TechStars reunion event in Seattle last week, listening to early-stage investors Brad ...
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• 1,400+ Silicon Valley Savvy Buyers Made Their Move in October! Real Estate Housing Sales Report for Santa Clara County ~ Pics, Graphs & Stats for the Month of October 2009 ~

  
  SiliconValleyBroker.com — Authority: 133
  The October/2009 Santa Clara County (SCC), Real Estate Sales Report for Single-Family Homes saw a closing of 1,026 sales receiving 98.53% of list price . These closings represented a median price of $593,250 and an average price of $721,097. There were 1,433 new listings reported to the MLS during October. ...
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• Artist of the Day ~ Valerie Adams

  
  SiliconValleyBroker.com — Authority: 133
  Valerie Adams Modern fused glass, handmade one at a time. (707) 539-4400 http://www.valerieadamsglass.com As a graphic designer for nearly thirty years, my creative vision has centered on conceptualizing, designing, and laying out beautiful printed pieces that convey information, provoke thought and create a ...
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• Ericssons CTO finds new home in Silicon Valley

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 142
  Ericssons CTO Hakan Eriksson will soon have a new set of digs as he relocates to Silicon Valley to oversee the Swedish companys Internet Protocol business in addition to continuing his role as CTO. Erikssons move to the U.S. reflects the growing momentum Ericsson is seeing in two key wireless and wireline segments: ...
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• Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  Big news often comes in small changes, and Boom Town was all over the little moves that meant big stories this week. Kara covered a massive redesign of the MSN (MSFT) homepage that follows the old car racing mantra turned web design ethos. Add power and lightness. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when boom Town ...
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• Gov’t warns firms about online robberies

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 149
  Online criminals have used the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system to facilitate the theft of more than $100 million from small and medium businesses, the FBI warned this week. The attacks typically use social engineering via e-mail messages to install malicious software on the computers of managers responsible for ...
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• Silicon Valley Real Estate Housing Sales for the Cities of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Campbell ~ October ~ Stats, Pics & Graphs

  
  SiliconValleyBroker.com — Authority: 133
  The October 2009 Completed Sales Report for Sunnyvale Single-Family Homes saw a closing of 53 sales receiving 99.19% of list price . These closings represented a median price of $770,000 and an average price of $742,194. There were 63 new listings reported for October . Total Sale $39,336,300 ...
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• Silicon Valley Real Estate Housing Sales for City of Cupertino ~ September to August 2009 ~ Stats & Graphs

  
  SiliconValleyBroker.com — Authority: 133
  The September 2009 Completed Sales Report for Cupertino Single-Family Homes saw a closing of 42 sale receiving 97.57% of list price . These closings represented a median price of $1,049,500 and an average price of $1,010,202. There were 36 new listings reported reported for September. Total Sales: ...
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