Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Decision Time For Facebook: Term Sheet Received At $2 Billion Valuation  —  Facebook has been pitching for a new round of funding these last few months to bridge itself to an IPO sometime in the future.  We’ve known that since October, when (former) CFO Gideon Yu was in Dubai.

Reuters:
eBay buys Gmarket stake for $350 million  —  South Korean online retailer Interpark Corp (035080.KQ) said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell $350 million worth of its shares in Gmarket Inc (GMKT.O) to eBay Inc (EBAY.O).  —  Shares in Interpark were up 1.61 percent as of 0142 GMT …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kutcher/CNN Twitter Fight Day 3: EA Ups The Ante  —  A couple days ago, actor Ashton Kutcher stated his goal to beat CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers.  He promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if the Internet made it happen.  Yesterday, CNN anchor Larry […]

Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
TwitPub invents paid Twitter accounts  —  This was bound to happen: Someone has invented a paid access scheme for Twitter.  TwitPub is a marketplace where Twitterers can sell access to their updates, by registering their protected accounts with the service.

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Tired of the events mess on Facebook?  Try Socializr  —  Socializr, a service that lets you organize your events online, has just released a cool new set of features that let you more easily see what events your friends are going to, and then track and manage the photos of these […]

Microsoft:
Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work  —  Q&A: Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group, discusses what people and businesses can expect from the upcoming release of Microsoft Exchange Server, Office, SharePoint Server, Visio and Project.

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple near ready with release of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Juno  —  Apple as early as this week could announce the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, a seventh maintenance and security update to its Leopard operating system scheduled to deliver over a 100 minor tweaks and bug fixes.

Clay Shirky:
The Failure of #amazonfail  —  In 1987, a teenage girl in suburban New York was discovered dazed and wrapped in a garbage bag, smeared with feces, with racial epithets scrawled on her torso.  She had been attacked by half a dozen white men, then left in that state on the grounds of an […]

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CNN Acquires CNNbrk Twitter Account With Nearly 1 Million Followers  —  Hard to believe, but the CNN Twitter account racing Ashton Kutcher to 1 million subscribers wasn’t even under CNN’s (TWX) control until recently.  —  CNN confirms that it has has taken control of the @cnnbrk account — and […]

Dan Frommer / The Business Insider:
CNN Acquires CNNbrk Twitter Account With Nearly 1 Million Followers  —  Hard to believe, but the CNN Twitter account racing Ashton Kutcher to 1 million subscribers wasn’t even under CNN’s (TWX) control until recently.  —  CNN has taken control of the @cnnbrk account — and its 944,000 followers — […]