photo © 2009 Chelsea Oakes | more info (via: Wylio ) According to a VC Experts report, Groupon gave the State of Delaware a heads up on December 17th with an Amended Certificate of Incorporation, authorizing an up to $950 million round of Series G funding. While this doesn’t necessarily mean the company will be raising that amount, it does give it the capacity to do so.

Yesterday, our post about AOL’s promotional discs by way of an excellent thread on Quora invoked quite a bit of feedback. That’s hardly surprising given that every man, woman, and child (at least in the United States) probably had their hands on one of the discs at some point in the 1990s. In fact, Jan Brandt, AOL’s former Chief Marketing Officer, dropped a huge knowledge bomb in the Quora thread after we published our original post: “ At one point, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it, ” she wrote

Earlier this years Linkedin Labs , which showcases projects created by LinkedIn employees, launched a feature that lets you quickly convert your profile on the professional social networking site into a more traditional resume.

Over the weekend, there was a ton of talk about 2011 being the year in which Android “explodes” onto the market. You could argue that 2010 was already that year, but plenty of numbers indicate that 2011 will be much bigger for the platform

Only four more days of 2010; four more days till we get to 2011.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking questions about private stock markets like SecondMarket and SharesPost .

During the holiday season, there’s a newsroom tradition to look back at the year’s funny and memorable videos.

We recently wrote about thingd, the ambitious startup that wants to build a “database of every thing in the world.” The startup, which has raised funding from a group of impressive investors, recently rolled out Fancy, a social shopping/blogging platform to list products.

Union Square Ventures is raising $200 million for a new fund called the Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund LP. According to an SEC filing , the VC firm already raised $135 million for the fund from 19 investors. The last time Union Square raised money was for its $156 million Union Square Ventures 2008 LP fund