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Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-messaging start-up, recently raised about $98 million dollars from T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners.

Raising $100 million is newsworthy for any company, but when it happened to Twitter this week, it also seemed to raise a hundred million eyebrows.

In a SEC filing, Google acknowledged that it might come out on the losing side of its $1 billion investment in AOL.

LinkedIn Worth $1 billion?

I think so
It is seriously overvalued
I don't care either way.

justechn writes "I recently had the opportunity to see, first hand, HP's new 30-bit, 1 billion color LCD display. I have to say I am impressed.

Back in December 2005, Google paid a whopping $1 billion to buy 5% of AOL from Time Warner. That valued AOL at a whopping $20 billion.

This just in: Google’s $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission, which said it saw neither current nor potential competitive problems with the deal.