» Google has announced today that they plan to roll out a gigabit fiber network to select cities for initially 50,000 subscribers. This will be big. (0)

» Silicon Alley Insider reports that job supersite Monster has purchased Yahoo!'s HotJobs for $225 million in cash, combining two giants in job sites. SAI indicates a traffic agreement. It'll generate some extra income for Yahoo! to (possibly) reinvent itself. (0)

» Excellent interview on Mixergy by Andrew Warner: How A Student with $1,100 Launched WhitePages, A $57 Mil a Year Business. Quality as always from Mixergy. (0)

» Amazon pulled Macmillan Books titles on e-book and print over a price feud between the two companies, confirmed by Macmillan CEO John Sargent. (0)

» First Round Capital, one of the highest-rated and most active venture capital firms, is to offer an Exchange Fund for their portfolio startups, allowing them to invest part of their equity into other companies that are participating in the fund. (Thanks, Christian) (0)

» In a landmark acquisition, Oracle has completed their merger with Sun, combining two of the largest and most important software and hardware market players. Press release. Of note: Oracle's flagship product is their 11g enterprise database product; Sun's more SMB-focused product is MySQL. What will happen between them? (0)

» Arguably more important than the Apple iPad itself is that Apple is now producing their own processors. From their April acquisition of P.A. Semi, a fabless semiconductor company, they developed a custom ARM-based processor, the Apple A4, to power the iPad. Expect to see this in other Apple products. It's huge. Analysis later. (0)

» Live: Apple has announced a tablet computer, the Apple iPad, running on what seems like Apple's Touch OS 4.0. Live blog from Engadget. (0)

» Loic Le Meur has announced a Seesmic product launch (Seesmic Look, "designed it to help Twitter go mainstream, a new experience that can be used by anyone") and a mini-conference. The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10018, Thursday, January 21st, 9am—12 noon EST. More here. (0)

» At CES in Las Vegas, Dell announced a 5" Android-powered tablet/slate device. More (with photos) at Pocket-Lint. (0)