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WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro visits the offices of AngelList in San Francisco. Founder and CEO Naval Ravikant talks about how the company links start-up entrepreneurs with angel investors.

WSJ CFO Journal senior editor Emily Chasan visits Mean Street to profile David Ebersman, Facebook's CFO and the money man behind the social media company's long-awaited IPO.

Should you be investing in the IPO at the outset or later - or not at all? Should you try to get out, potentially leave money on the table and be satisfied with merely a modest killing? Jon Friedman of Marketwatch weighs in on Digits. Photo: AP.

The music is slow and full, a smoky mid-1960s cinema soundtrack, deployed pristinely, with crackling hip-hop drums setting the pace. On the new album 4-minute songs feel like 7 or 8, so packed are they with short verses and bridges and changes and Sturm und Drang, to say nothing of Del Rey's languor, which can verge on pallor. The persistent purr she nails on her record was here punctuated with evident breaths and awkward silences. If the Internet hadn't glommed onto Del Rey's video for "Video... Читать дальше...

I’m speechless. The bar for ridiculous fashion week dresses has been infinitely raised. [NSFW]

Marketwatch columnist Mark Hulbert reports that at its initial public offering Facebook will be nearly 40 times more expensive than the average large IPO of the last four decades. (Photo: AP/Paul Sakuma)

I’m speechless. The bar for ridiculous fashion week dresses has been infinitely raised. [NSFW]

The Cupertino company announced Tuesday that it has hired John Browett, CEO of European electronics retailer Dixons Retail, to be senior vice president of retail. Browett will begin at Apple in April after stepping down from Dixons, a kind of United Kingdom equivalent of Best Buy, where he is credited with modernizing stores and improving customer service. "The opportunity ahead of me is an exciting one and I leave knowing that the Group has a bright future under strong leadership," Browett said in a statement posted on Dixons' website.

Holiday shoppers whipped out their mobile phones to help them find the best deals, in yet another sign of how the cell phone is becoming more and more of a shopping and e-commerce tool. More than half of U.S. cell phone owners said they used their phones at least once during the holiday shopping season, using it to call a friend for shopping advice, to look up product reviews while they were in the store or to check for better prices elsewhere, the Pew Internet & American Life Project said in a report. Читать дальше...

When she dies, she is replaced by a wingless female who mates with a wingless male and who is capable of multiple matings. In other words, they can reproduce faster than almost any other species of ants as they have so many queens laying eggs almost constantly. Because of their multiple queens constantly reproducing, come colonies can contain up to 3 million individual ants (and remember, half of these can be reproductives). White-footed ants feed on the nectar of some plants and the honeydew secretion of aphids and similar insects. Читать дальше...

Liturgy is the sexless hive-geek counterpart to Lana Del Rey, 2011's most polarizing and polarized artist. The Brooklyn black metallers (Liturgy) generated what seemed a comparable amount of criticism to the manufactured pseudo-pop darling (Del Rey) in 2011. Both contentious artists were saturated at various points throughout the music world, for very different reasons (not important now).