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All Tech Considered
2:16 am
Fri February 3, 2012

Facebook's Early Investors May Have Much To Like

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who famously created the site at his Harvard dorm room in 2004, owns 28.2 percent of the company. After the IPO, he could be worth $28 billion.
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Dustin Moskovitz (left) was Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard. His 7.6 percent stake would be worth more than $7 billion.
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Sheryl Sandberg, the Silicon Valley veteran who previously worked at Google, is Facebook's chief operating officer. Her shares could make her more than $2 billion.
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Artist David Choe was paid in stock when he painted the graffiti in Facebook's original office space in Palo Alto, Calif. The New York Times estimates his stake now at more than $200 million.
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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was Facebook's first outside investor, paying $500,000 for 2.5 percent of the company. Now, that 2004 investment could net him $2 billion.
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James Breyer's Accel Partners was another early investor. It owns 11.4 percent of Facebook, which could be worth $11 billion.
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Russian CEO Yuri Milner first bought a stake in Facebook three years ago. His company, DST Global, now owns 5.5. percent, which could bring more than $5 billion.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who famously created the site at his Harvard dorm room in 2004, owns 28.2 percent of the company. After the IPO, he could be worth $28 billion.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:03 am

Facebook filed to go public this week, and many analysts expect that it will be valued between $75 billion and $100 billion on the day of its initial public offering. That would make Facebook more valuable than GM, Ford and even Goldman Sachs.

What's most remarkable is that the company has barely 3,000 employees, and many of them are about to become very, very rich.

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Arts and Culture
12:00 am
Fri February 3, 2012

Jeeves and the Uninvited Guest (P.G. Wodehouse)

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When a sheltered young nobleman goes wild in wicked New York City, Bertie and Jeeves get creative.

Maplewood Barn Radio Theatre is a weekly radio drama program adapted for radio by Brad Buchanan and produced by Darren Hellwege.

 

Radio Friends
12:00 am
Fri February 3, 2012

Maples Rep Theatre / Osher Lifelong Learning

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TODD DAVIDSON, Maples Rep Theatre 660-385-2924
LUCILLE SALERNO, Osher Lifelong Learning 

Presidential Race
11:01 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Romney Again A Front-Runner, But At What Cost?

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at Brady Industries on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's decisive win over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Florida returned him to the front-runner's spot in the Republican presidential race. Romney emerged from that battle with his strengths, but also his weaknesses, on full display.

Sometimes hard-fought nominating contests produce a more formidable general-election candidate. That's what happened to Barack Obama in 2008. But Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist, thinks it's too soon to tell if this Republican primary battle will have the same effect.

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Your Money
11:01 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Cheap Chic: Couture Comes To Discount Retailers

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A design by Jason Wu, who will launch a limited-edition line for Target on Feb. 5. Wu is among the latest high-end designers to work with a discount retailer.
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When luxury label Versace launched a collection for H&M last November, customers lined up on the sidewalk to wait for the chain's Washington, D.C., store to open.
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Design house Missoni created this bicycle and other products for Target last year. On the day of the launch, a huge spike in traffic crashed the retailer's website.
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By Asma Khalid

On Feb. 5, fashion designer Jason Wu is launching a limited-edition line for Target. Wu became famous for designing Michelle Obama's inaugural gown. He's the latest high-end designer to partner with a mainstream retailer and offer his chic couture at cheap prices for the masses.

On a bitterly cold morning in Washington, D.C., last November, hundreds of fashionistas flooded the street in front of the low-priced fashion chain H&M. Italian luxury label Versace was launching a collection there, and customers were waiting for the doors to open.

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Shots - Health Blog
11:01 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Addicts' Brains May Be Wired At Birth For Less Self-Control

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The red areas show gray matter that is abnormally increased in drug users. Blue shows gray matter that is abnormally decreased in drug users. Yellow shows white matter tracts, called fractional anisotropy or FA. FA is significantly reduced in both the drug users and in their siblings, which suggests that the white matter tracts work less efficiently.
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Originally published on Tue February 7, 2012 4:37 pm

Many addicts inherit a brain that has trouble just saying no to drugs.

A study in Science finds that cocaine addicts have abnormalities in areas of the brain involved in self-control. And these abnormalities appear to predate any drug abuse.

The study, done by a team at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., looked at 50 pairs of siblings. One member of each pair was a cocaine addict. The other had no history of drug abuse.

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Global Journalist
6:30 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Reporting in Cuba

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Being an independent news reporter in Cuba is a dangerous occupation. The Committee to Protect Journalists points out that Cuba was once tied with China for holding the largest number of journalists behind bars. 

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PM Newscasts
6:10 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Newscast for February 2, 2012

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A Thursday morning fire in Boonville has destroyed two businesses operated by a program that helps people with disabilities
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Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Fire destroys Boonville's Unlimited Opportunities businesses
  • Food bank's Buddy Pack program faces cuts, elimination
  • Curators discuss proposed budget cut outcomes
Business
5:52 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Fire destroys Boonville's Unlimited Opportunities businesses

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An excavator cleans up the debris from a fire in Boonville. Two businesses run by Unlimited Opportunities were destroyed, but no one was hurt in the fire.
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A Thursday morning fire in Boonville has destroyed two businesses operated by a program that helps people with disabilities.

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Agriculture
5:45 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Food bank's Buddy Pack program faces cuts, elimination

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Kids play on a playground. The Buddy Pack program sends kids in 32 Missouri counties home with a backpack of nutritious food each weekend, but the program is facing the challenges of rising food and fuel costs.
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The Buddy Pack program at the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri is in trouble.

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