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• Facebook's leaked financials show possible $1B profit in '11

  Facebook reportedly generated $1.2 billion in revenue in the first nine months of 2010, according to a document being distributed by Goldman Sachs.

• Ford debuts all-electric car

  Ford Motor Company debuted its first all-electric vehicle, the Focus Electric, at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show Friday. It is one of five new electrified vehicles that will be available in North America and Europe by 2013.

• Cisco eschews cloud services - for now

  Cisco's cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services.

• Bank of America cuts services for WikiLeaks

  Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.

• Facebook rakes in $2B in 2010

  Not long after being criticized for not knowing how to make money, Facebook is looking to reel in more than $2 billion in sales in 2010.

• Despite recession, finance job competition stays strong

  Finding qualified candidates for financial services and accounting positions should prove easy with the U.S. unemployment rate near 10 per cent. However, firms have encountered a competitive marketplace as they search for the right employee, according to a new survey.

• Rugged handhelds announced by Motorola

  Motorola announced two rugged Wi-Fi-ready mobile computers Tuesday for use in retail, manufacturing and health care.

• MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks

  The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems than previously thought.

• ZeuS-style banking Trojans seen as greatest threat to online banking: Survey

  A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such as ZeuS and Clampi on compromised customer computers to be the greatest threat to online banking today.

• Anonymous takes down Visa.com in WikiLeaks protest

  A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.

• The Grill: Dieterich Lawson

  The young and charismatic chief technology officer at FrontlineSMS:Medic, Dieterich Lawson, 21, is committed to his company's mission of using low-cost mobile technologies to advance healthcare networks in underserved communities. Combining the use of inexpensive cell phones with free, open-source software, Lawson and FrontlineSMS:Medic are helping to better organize healthcare records and connect patients with doctors in rural areas around the world.

• Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday

  Amazon plans to demonstrate a new version of Kindle for the Web on Tuesday, one day after Google launched its Google eBooks and eBookstore strategy.

• Retailer accused of inflating Google ranking is arrested

  An online retailer who boasted that complaints about his business helped boost its standing in Google search results was arrested Monday.

• One enterprise's two-year Apple mobile makeover

  RehabCare CIO Dick Escue's journey to become a mobile enterprise Apple shop started two years ago, and now he's developing critical iOS apps for some 8,000 iPod Touches, 700 iPhones and 120 iPads. All tallied, three iOS apps will touch every facet of RehabCare's business, from improving patient care to winning new business.

• BP ignored safety software advice, investigators find

  BP ignored the advice of safety critical software in an attempt to save time before the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a presentation slide prepared by US investigators.