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It is a start of a new era in online business in 2010. Why? Well, there are several reasons. There is more and more technology providing connection with like minded groups and more and more people online. There also is new software being created by innovative companies around this area. So what? Well the combination of innovative software and an increase in people using it sometimes results in leading edge innovation that creates new productive technology for society that is beneficial. Like what?

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The Start of a New Era in Online Small Business in 2010

Facebook quickly concluded it wasn’t worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft, according to confidential information obtained Wednesday from court documents. In a transcript of a June court hearing that was closed to the public, lawyers arguing over a legal settlement revealed Facebook’s own appraisal had priced its privately held stock at $8.88 per share, giving it a market value of about $3.7 billion. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company relied on the appraisal to value employee stock options fairly and avert possible tax problems.

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Court Docs Expose Wide Gulf in Facebook Valuations

Japanese electronics company Pioneer will cut 10,000 jobs globally to cope with sinking sales of car audio equipment and flat-screen TVs. It will also withdraw from its money-losing plasma display business. The massive job cuts, announced Thursday, are the latest from Japanese corporate giants, which are slashing their payrolls worldwide, reducing production and forecasting annual losses amid a global economic slump. Sony is shedding 8,000 workers while Nissan Motor and NEC are each cutting 20,000.

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Pioneer to Cut 10,000, Abandon Troubled TV Biz

What happens when Apple and Palm representatives vaguely mention the ability to use and defend their patents, and then one anonymous source from Google vaguely states that Apple asked Google to not implement a certain technology in a recently release product? You get a whole lot of blog headlines keying off of a single publication’s unnamed source. All the stories appear to cite a VentureBeat article that cited an anonymous source on the Google Android team who reported he was “relieved” that Google decided to heed Apple’s request.

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The Mountain and the Multi-Touch Molehill

IBM has rolled out new products and services — along with a joint network offering with partner Juniper Networks — that solidifies its foothold in the enterprise cloud computing space. The IBM-Juniper offering is an infrastructure play targeting IBM’s private cloud clients. Specifically, it’s a hybrid cloud service that allows users to extend their private clouds to remote servers in a secure public cloud that gives high-priority applications preference over lower priority ones when resources become constrained.

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IBM Spreads Cloud Cover Across the Globe