MobileBeat2009, our event next Thursday, is less than a week away (tickets here). We’ve got speakers coming from every corner of the ecosystem, including the major carriers, device makers, start-ups, and more — to guarantee we have a rich debate about how applications are driving the entire sector. Yesterday, I posted on the marketing/advertising expert speakers. Now I’m announcing some of the remaining venture capital and other investors joining us. I’ve already mentioned a few investors in past posts, including Matt Murphy, of the iFund of Kleiner Perkins, Marc Faucher, who will be speaking for the BlackBerry Partners Fund (taking Rich Segal’s place at the last minute), Nagraj Kashyap of Qualcomm Ventures, and Bob Borcher, the former iPhone 3G S marketer who has just joined Opus Capital. Full story...
Now that Facebook is fast on its way to becoming a public company, and its financials have been laid bare, there’s just one question that remains unanswered: What is Facebook actually worth?
A private market transaction completed Thursday may provide …
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