1. Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay  permalink

Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

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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Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay Are Facebook and Goldman Sachs Reinflating the Bubble?   —  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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What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean?   —  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.

2. Actor Pete Postlethwaite, 1946-2011  permalink

Actor Pete Postlethwaite, 1946-2011
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Virtually unknown in America until his Oscar-nominated role in the 1993 film In The Name of the Father, the British actor died Jan. 2 after a long battle with cancer. Fresh Air remembers him with highlights from a 1997 interview.

3. Parallel Lives: Having A Twin With Mental Illness  permalink

Parallel Lives: Having A Twin With Mental Illness
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Composer Allen Shawn's twin sister, Mary, was diagnosed with autism and sent to an institution when they were 8 years old. He writes about his relationship with Mary -- and his feelings of survivor's guilt -- in a new memoir, Twin.

4. Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining  permalink

Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining
Ryan Kim / GigaOMTech

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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2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?   —  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 ...

5. DealBook  permalink

DealBook
Dealbook.nytimes.com

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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