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Last week, in our weekly report on the insanely hot Facebook stock trading going on behind the scenes on SecondMarket, I wrote the following: "Do I hear $75 billion next week?" I was sort of kidding.

New money will give Facebook power to steal away employees, develop products and possibly pursue acquisitions, all without being publicly traded.

Twitter has raised a big new round of venture capital, $200 million, valuing the company at $3.7 billion.

Sorting through all kinds of filings and other technical gobbledygook, the guys at the Private Equity Data Center say their new best guess for Facebook's internal valuation is $35 billion.

AOL won't officially become an independently traded company again until December 10 when CEO Tim Armstrong is scheduled to ring the bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

While some of us might be willing to pay to make Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars go away, it appears that Wall Street has other ideas.

Wynn Macau's strong debut in Hong Kong on Friday shows appetite for gambling stocks is strong despite high valuations, and will cheer rival Las Vegas Sands, which plans a listing later this year.

Twitter is about to raise a boatload of cash. Last week we broke the news that Twitter is raising another round of funding at a $1 billion valuation and that one of the new investors in that round is Insight Venture Partners.

Facebook sells a 1.96% stake to a Russian internet firm, a move that values the social networking website at $10bn.