Here's How Much Everyone Makes In Silicon Valley

Focus put together this great infographic of salaries for various technical positions in Silicon Valley, noting that there are more tech jobs there than at the apex of the dotcom bubble. (Then again, after more than 10 years of growth, irrespective of bubbles, there ought to be.)

It doesn't take into account stock-based compensation, but it does take into account cost of living. So that great $92,000 pay in Silicon Valley gets you about $50,000 worth of goods and services in San Diego. Worth keeping in mind. 

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Pay for web workers: How much should location matter?

Business is all about the bottom line — ironing out inefficiencies, increasing productivity, finding ways to get or make things cheaply that you can sell high — and web work offers new ways to bolster that bottom line.

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CHART OF THE DAY: How Much Apple Is Making On The App Store

Last week Apple announced that its 200 million iOS users have downloaded 15 billion applications.

How much money money is Apple making from those 15 billion downloads? Apple wasn't so forthcoming about that, so we'll have to rely on this estimate from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

Munster says the average selling price of an app in the App Store is $1.44. Of that Apple nets $0.18 after you account for credit card fees and storage/delivery costs.

Since the App Store launched, Apple has earned a net profit of $538 million on paid app sales, estimates Munster. It has spent an additional $246 million on storing and delivering free apps, says Munster, suggesting Apple's true profit is just $292 million.

Of course, that's the narrow way of looking how much Apple is making from the App Store. Apple's vibrant app ecosystem has helped it sell millions of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, helping it earn billions in profits.

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So Much For Apple Working Out That Deal With Facebook (AAPL)

Apple and Facebook don't appear to be any closer to working together on the iPhone.

Today in San Francisco, Apple unveiled a new relationship with Twitter, where Twitter sign-in and sharing features will be built right into Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system. (A very rare thing for Apple, which is hesitant to rely on third party services for anything.)

Sounds like the sort of feature that would be just as good -- if not better -- with Facebook, which has many millions more users than Twitter? Indeed. But Apple had nothing to say about Facebook today.

While Apple has been able to integrate Facebook into some minor products, such as iPhoto, for whatever reason, the companies haven't been able to figure out a deal for major mobile integration. Last September, for example, Apple had to remove Facebook support from Ping, a social network, at the last minute. 

Why? Because Facebook insisted on "onerous terms that we could not agree to," Apple CEO Steve Jobs told All Things D's Kara Swisher at the time.

Several weeks later, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor told reporters in New York that he was "very confident" that Facebook and Apple would figure out a way to work together on Ping.

But, publicly at least, nothing seems to have changed since then. Meanwhile, today, Apple just announced a big partnership with Twitter, one of Facebook's biggest rivals.

This leaves the door open for Facebook and Apple to potentially work something out between now and the fall, when iOS 5 ships to consumers, so Apple can announce Twitter and Facebook integration for the final product. Facebook, after all, is built into many other phone platforms, including Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, some Android flavors, etc.

Even if Facebook doesn't need Apple, and Apple doesn't need Facebook, it would be better for all of their users if they worked together, after all.

Or maybe they just aren't going to play nicely together.

Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs obviously both know that they run two of the most important tech companies in the world. They don't need each other if they can't come to terms they can agree on. And maybe that's going to keep them apart.

Either way, watching this relationship evolve is only going to get more interesting over the years.

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Karl, would be interesting to see how these numbers compare to AT&T;'s official meter...

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Myspace Planning Layoffs As Much As 50% of Its Staff

AllThingsD's Liz Gannes reporting that trouble in MySpace land. The social networking site turned social entertainment hub--is in the midst of planning that could soon result in significant layoffs of its staff. The number could be as much as 50% of the 1,100 employees at Myspace, largely based in the U.S., but also in international locations.

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Groupon Prepares To Raise As Much As $950 Million

Groupon just filed a certificate to authorize an astounding $950 million fundraise at a $6.4 billion valuation, VC Experts reports.

The certificate is a sort of heads up, filed before the deal is done.

The certificate authorizes up to $950 million. It's not certain Groupon will raise that much.

VC Experts says "a Form D outlining the exact amount raised should be filed next week."

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason tells us, "we'll let you know if we have news about fundraising."

$950 million is a huge chunk of change, but Groupon could use the money. It already employees 3,000 people. Because it's a sales-heavy business, it's going to need many more people to keep growing so fast.

This round is different than the last big one Groupon did with Russian holding company Digital Sky Technologies in that Groupon's new investor will get voting shares this time around.

A couple weeks ago, Groupon rejected a $6 billion offer from Google because board members feared anti-trust issues would plague the merger for months.

Groupon is just one of several successful startups based out of Chicago and founded by entrepreneurs Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky.

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Correction: An earlier version of this post said Groupon raised $950 million. Groupon has actually just filed to authorize a raise of as much as $950 million.

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