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Obvious Corporation/Ev Williams leases 75,000 sqft. in SOMA

It’s an 8-year lease at the Phelan Building. At $50/sqft., it’s worth at least $3.75M/year, or about $300,000/month. 75,000 square feet is enough space for at least 500 people. Source.

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The Facebook Phone

Ron Amadeo at Android Police has managed discover a bit more about the rumored Facebook “phone” coming on April 4th by attacking Facebook’s Android app APK:

According to this rom, the Facebook Phone looks to be a mostly stock, mid-range Sense 4.5 phone that was attacked by a mutant Facebook app. Everything seems to be focused on the Facebook app - they haven’t made their own Android Skin, or anything like that.

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Numbers: Disqus doing 6.3B page views per month through 1.8Gbps

Disqus tweeted a graph of its bandwidth usage recently showing that they are pushing up to 1.8Gbps of bandwidth to serve about 2,300 page views per second (6.3 billion page views in the past thirty days).

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AirBnB is currently closing a $200m round at ~$3B valuation

Sequoia followed on.

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