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Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins is about to buy .0007% of Facebook for $38 million. Venture Wire first reported the deal,”The venture capital firm . . . is in the process of securing a stake in Facebook by investing $38 million from its $750 million debut digital growth fund, said two prospective investors.”

A post on eBay’s Green Team Talks blog explained, “Topaz becomes one of only a small handful of data centers on U.S. soil to achieve LEED Gold – a pretty major accomplishment considering the availability and security requirements needed to run eBay AND PayPal’s servers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days [...]

Yahoo announced today that the company will appoint Wayne Powers as senior vice president, Advertising Sales for North America. Powers, who previously served as President of the Time Inc. Media Group, will report directly to incoming Executive Vice President of the Americas, Ross Levinsohn. Powers will be based in Yahoo!’s New York office. “Wayne is [...]

“Tomorrow is Election Day and Facebook is committed to encouraging people who use our service to participate in the democratic process. As a result, Facebook is focused on ensuring that all of our users know where they can participate in this year’s elections,” Facebook’s Andrew Noyes said in an email. “U.S. users over age 18 [...]

LinkedIn announced today that users can now customize their profiles with five new profile sections: publications, languages, skills, certifications, and patents. “If you are an author, academic professional, or a researcher, your body of publications helps define you as a professional. With the Publications section, you can add your published work to your profile,” says [...]

Mozilla has appointed former Adobe executive Gary Kovacs as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. The appointment ends a nearly six-month search that began after John Lilly, who has been Mozilla’s chief executive for the last three years, announced that he would leave to join Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. “Gary [...]

Google took 72.15% of the U.S. search market share in September, up from 71.59% in August, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. Bing powered search received 23.64 percent of searches for the month with Yahoo Search and Bing receiving 13.54 percent and 10.10 percent, respectively.

Twitter has just announced Promoted Accounts. Twitter explains how Promoted Accounts are custom-selected for users: Promoted Accounts are suggested based on a user’s public list of whom they follow. When an advertiser promotes an account, Twitter’s algorithm looks at that account’s followers and determines other accounts that those users tend to follow. If a user [...]

Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, charged that former ally Motorola infringed nine of its patents in the Android-based smartphones, which run on software built by Google Inc. According to a statement by Microsoft deputy general counsel Horacia Gutierrez, the alleged infringements centre on the way Motorola’s phones synchronize email, calendars, contacts and meetings, and [...]

Amazon.com today launched a beta version of “Kindle for the Web,” allowing users to sample books directly through browsers without having to download anything. “With Kindle for the Web, it’s easier than ever for customers to sample Kindle books – there’s no downloading or installation required,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for the [...]