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by Eric Eldon, Editor, Digital Media, VentureBeat
Tech bloggers and investors have come up with a new parlor game: Guessing Facebook’s “real” valuation. Nobody seems to believe the company’s official $15 billion valuation that it announced when it raised its most recent, not-yet-closed round from Microsoft and others.
The latest guess: A new study out today by VC Experts pegs the valuation at $12.5 billion, a number derived from the firm’s proprietary valuation-calculation methodology and based on numbers from numerous public documents. Take a look. This is perhaps the most well-researched guess yet, and includes lots of details like stock prices on the dates of various funding rounds.
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by Eric Eldon, Blogger, VentureBeat
Facebook has finally started integrating its new redesign into its main site. The company is betting that what users want to do is publish more information about themselves, and see more about their friends activities. The thing is, do most Facebook users actually want to do those things?
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by Eric Eldon, Blogger, VentureBeat
Movie, television and radio writers have been striking since last fall. Meanwhile, “American Idol”’s ratings dropped sharply versus this time last year, and that’s a show that doesn’t need writers. Why? Well, viewers are going online. YouTube traffic has gone up 18% over the last two months, and Sony’s Crackle (formerly Grouper) has doubled from 1.2 million to 2.4 million users over the course of last fall, according to Nielsen Online.
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by Eric Eldon, Blogger, VentureBeat
On Dec. 14, Google’s RSS feed reader application, Google Reader, introduced a new way for Google-defined “friends” to see your “shared” feed items. At that point, the feature caused this reporter to blow a fuse, because I realized Reader was letting competing bloggers automatically see my shared feed items.
Then, only a couple of others wondered about the move. But this past week, more fuses have been blowing, as Reader users discovered that business competitors, politically sensitive relatives, ex-lovers and others were getting access to items that Reader users thought they were only sharing with selected confidantes.
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by Eric Eldon, Blogger, VentureBeat
It’s been a little more than a month since the last rumors surfaced about social news site Digg trying to sell itself for at least $300 million. A reliable source just confirmed the company’s plans, noting the company has hired Allen & Company, a tiny but influential private investment firm, to help broker a deal.
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