Still having trouble getting your head around a $10 billion valuation for Facebook?
Try this. Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking company has roughly 300 employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. So, $10 billion works out to $33 million per employee.
Gannett, the nation’s largest owner of newspapers, including USA Today, has a market cap of about $10 […]

In a business where credibility means everything, finally some sanity in the Par Ridder case.
Previously, Ridder’s bosses have backed him, even after he admitted stealing proprietary information when he jumped as publisher from the Pioneer Press to the Star Tribune in Minnesota.
Earlier this week, a judge banned Ridder from his job at the Star Tribune […]

Former LA Times reporter Bob Salladay joined our small-but-dedicated crew this week.
Bob, who covered the guv at the Times and has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune, will be writing regularly for us about national news.
We hope to add more seasoned journalists to our list of contributors in coming weeks, bringing […]

Sources are telling Business Week that Apple is considering bidding for valuable wireless spectrum in the government auction early next year.
That’s the same auction in which Google has said it will likely participate.
Even more reason to suspect that the two tech powerhouses are in cahoots on a mobile platform project.

After reading much of the recent speculation about and analysis of Google’s possible gPhone plans, including excellent stuff by BusinessWeek and Silicon Alley Insider, only two conclusions are possible:
1) It’s all b.s.
2) Somehow, Google and Apple will be in cahoots.
Surely, Apple shareholders and Steve Jobs wouldn’t allow Google CEO Eric Schmidt to remain an Apple director if […]