????* 在近幾天舉行的秘密談判中，馬克?扎克伯格和Instagram公司的首席執行官凱文?希斯特羅姆這兩位公司創始人都對外拋出了各種天文數字，包括Facebook高達1,040億美元的潛在市值。至于Facebook公司本身，它可能將于5月17日正式上市。【《紐約時報》（The New York Times）/科技博客TechCrunch】

????* 一場甲骨文公司（Oracle）和谷歌公司之間的訴訟大戰已經拉開大幕，甲骨文宣稱后者流行的安卓操作系統侵犯了自己的幾項專利和版權。【美國有線電視網財經頻道（CNNMoney）】

????* Ebay最新一季的銷售和利潤雙雙超過了分析人士的預測。銷售收入與上一財季相比增長了29%，達到近33億美元。【彭博社（Bloomberg）】

????* 據報道，一些重量級人物正投資支持一個新項目。這個項目據說將“創造一個新產業，重新定義‘自然資源’”。導演詹姆斯?卡梅隆和谷歌公司高管拉里?佩奇及埃里克?施密特也在贊助者之列。難道這個新產業就是去小行星采礦嗎？（科技新聞網站The Verge）

????* 蒂姆?庫克，風險投資家馬克?安德森以及Facebook公司首席運營官謝麗爾?桑德伯格共同榮登《時代》雜志（Time）本年度“100位最具影響力人物榜”。【《財富》雜志（Fortune）】

????* 租車應用Uber正在芝加哥市測試價格較低的出租車叫車服務應用。（科技博客TechCrunch）

????* 科技初創企業需要一種“新鮮典范”。【《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）】

????* 一句話趣味新聞：2010年全年，視頻游戲機在閑置時的耗電量占其總耗電量的近70%。（科技新聞網站The Verge）

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????* During several days of secret negotiations between Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, both founders tossed around numbers, including a potential value of $104 billion for Facebook. As for the social network itself, the company may go public on May 17. (The New York Times and TechCrunch)

????* A court battle between Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG) has begun, with the former claiming the latter's popular Android operating system infringes on several patents and copyrights. (CNNMoney)

????* Ebay's (EBAY) latest quarterly sales and profits topped analyst estimates, with revenues climbing 29% to nearly $3.3 billion compared with the quarter before. (Bloomberg)

????* Director James Cameron and Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are among several backers who are reportedly behind a new project that will "create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources.'" Could that new industry be asteroid mining? (The Verge)

????* Tim Cook, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made Time magazine's "100 Most Influential" list this year. (Fortune)

????* Black car app Uber is testing out lower-priced taxi options in Chicago. (TechCrunch)

????* Why we need a "fresh paradigm" for tech start-ups. (The Atlantic)

????* Fun factoid: Video game consoles consumed nearly 70% of their energy in 2010 while idle. (The Verge)