Techmeme: Groupon Files for IPO to Raise $750 Million (Tricia Duryee/AllThingsD)

3:30 PM ET, June 2, 2011

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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:

Groupon Files For $750 Million IPO — Groupon just filed an S-1 with the SEC in order to raise $750 million in an IPO. In the filing Andrew Mason wrote the following letter to potential investors: Dear Potential Stockholders, On the day of this writing, Groupon's over 7,000 employees offered …

Discussion: vator.tv, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, paidContent, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, @hitwise_us, 24/7 Wall St., Mashable!, The Next Web and @tim

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Groupon Files for IPO to Raise $750 Million — More to come but Groupon has just announced it has filed for an initial public offering with the SEC. Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs are its bankers. — The company is seeking to raise $750 million.

Brad Stone / @bradstone: Here's the Groupon S1: http://1.usa.gov/lE03ar. Lost $420 million last year, $117 million in the first quarter of '11.

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on Google, Clones and Hubris–But Not on an IPO

Discussion: WebProNews

Julie Larson-Green / Microsoft:

Previewing ‘Windows 8’ — REDMOND, Wash. - June 1, 2011 - Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface.

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Microsoft reveals ARM-powered Windows 8 prototypes (eyes-on) — Remember how Microsoft unveiled that whole “Windows 8” thing earlier today? It's back for more: Here at Computex 2011 in Taipei, prototype ARM-based Windows 8 slates and smartbooks are coming out of the woodwork.

Discussion: ZDNet, App Advice, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 — On Wednesday, Microsoft offered the first glimpse of Windows 8, a sneak peek that reveals much about both the influences and the strategic goals of the major overhaul of Microsoft's 25-year-old operating system.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad

Discussion: AllThingsD, Mobile Opportunity, TechCrunch, Techland, Inquirer, Joel Housman, SlashGear, @gartenberg, MSDN Blogs, CrunchGear and Tim Anderson's ITWriting

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Facebook, Zuckerberg say ownership contract forged — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said an alleged contract and emails that a New York man says entitle him to a huge stake in the social networking website are “forgeries.” — In a filing in the U.S. District Court …

Discussion: Inquirer, Neowin.net and @jason

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Facebook Says There's Even More Fraud in Paul Ceglia's Past

Discussion: SAI, Bits, All Facebook, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable! and NBC Bay Area

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

More on Apple's Airport/Time Capsule and a possible refresh — We've been tracking Time Capsule/Airport shortages reported earlier for about a week. Our sources noted that Airport Express has been plentiful but supplies of TimeCapsule and Airport Extreme have been tightening globally the way products usually do before a refresh.

Discussion: CNET News, MacRumors, MacNN, TiPb and MacStories

Chris Rawson / TUAW:
AirPort devices out of stock in many Apple Stores, refresh imminent?

Discussion: MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacRumors, SlashGear, Apple Bitch and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:miketrose

Joanna Stern / This is my next:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 goes on sale next week in New York City with Honeycomb 3.1 (update: pre-orders for Verizon LTE models start same day) — Admit it, you've been a tad jealous of those who received a special edition Galaxy Tab 10.1 at Google I/O last month, even if they are running now outdated Honeycomb 3.0.

Discussion: Computerworld, Verizon, 9to5 Google, BetaNews, VentureBeat, gigaom.com, GottaBeMobile, Gadget Lab, IntoMobile, CrunchGear, BGR, SAI, Electronista, Neowin.net, LaptopMemo, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, Geek.com and Softpedia News

Todd Haselton / BGR:
Verizon outs 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, pre-orders start June 8th for $529.99

Discussion: LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, Engadget, Mashable!, Tools and IntoMobile

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Adobe CEO: The Flash Argument With Apple Is Over — Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen says the argument with Apple over supporting its Flash software on the iPad and iPhone devices is over. “It's an argument that the press likes to continue bringing up,” he said in an on stage conversation with Wall Mossberg at the All Things D conference.

Discussion: Digits, VentureBeat, CNET News, The Tech Trade, CNET News, AllThingsD, MacDailyNews and Electronista

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Amazon enters the daily deals space with AmazonLocal — Online retail giant Amazon has become the latest company to move into the daily deals space with the launch of AmazonLocal, an online marketplace that will allow its customers to buy vouchers or deals that can be redeemed against goods …

Discussion: Gizmodo, TechFlash, MarketingVox News & Trends, Disruptors, @fredericl and SAI, Thanks:jfalconer

Reuters:

U.S. probes Google's serious China hacking allegation — (Reuters) - Google Inc's allegations that hackers, probably from China, sought to access the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. officials are very serious and the U.S. government is investigating them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Telegraph

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
China rejects Google allegation of massive hacking breach as ‘fabrication’

Discussion: Digits, Guardian, VatorNews, Hillicon Valley, BetaNews, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, BBC and TG Daily

Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:

YouTube and Creative Commons: raising the bar on user creativity — Have you ever been in the process of creating a video and just needed that one perfect clip to make it pop? Maybe you were creating your own music video and needed an aerial video of Los Angeles at night to spice it up.

Discussion: paidContent, Boing Boing, Creative Commons, Mashable! and SocialTimes.com

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice)

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Gadgetell and Pocket-lint, more at Mediagazer »

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

“Grandpa” Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times — Marc Andreessen has been a venture capitalist for two years, and just scored his first big win: Selling Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. His firm's aggressive investment strategy, in both early and late-stage companies, has put Sand Hill Road on notice.

Discussion: Digital Trends, broadstuff and AllThingsD

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Not Get Too Cocky About The Blubble

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and SAI

Peter Burrows / Business Week:

Stephen Elop's Nokia Adventure — Market share dwindling, stock cratering, persistent takeover talk. How the CEO is trying to lead Nokia past its epic fail — On a slushy morning in early March, Stephen Elop, a Canadian executive who built his résumé at U.S. technology companies …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, BNET, Wall Street Journal, All About Symbian, The Nokia Blog, dailywireless.org, AllThingsD and SlashGear

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Responds Quickly to Evolving ‘Mac Defender’ Threat With Updated Malware Definitions — Yesterday, we noted that the attackers behind the “Mac Defender” malware had moved quickly to combat Apple's new security update, within hours releasing a new variant of the malware that was capable of skirting around Apple's new protection.

Discussion: PC World, Ars Technica and CNET News

Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
New Apple antivirus signatures bypassed within hours by malware authors [Update]

Discussion: VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Apple Core Blog, Naked Security, Edible Apple, eWeek Security Watch, Softpedia News, Fortune, Techland, parislemon, Softpedia News, Help Net Security, O'Grady's PowerPage and DailyTech, Thanks:jtkeating

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOm:

TI's New Chip Ready for Smartphones, Tablets, Even Windows Laptops — Texas Instruments today announced a new chip for mobile devices that boasts an 80 percent boost in web browsing performance along with 2.5 times better graphics. The OMAP4470 processor improves upon the current TI chips …

Discussion: News Room, Inquirer, Engadget, AndroidGuys, Softpedia News, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, DailyTech, AnandTech, PC Magazine, Gadgetsteria and Neowin.net

Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:

Schema.org: Google, Bing & Yahoo Unite To Make Search Listings Richer Through Structured Data — Today, “in the spirit of sitemaps.org”, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have announced the joint alliance of schema.org. This alliance provides a common foundation of support for a set of microdata types …

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Official Google Blog, Yahoo! Search Blog, PC Magazine, Bing and ReadWriteWeb

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

UberMedia raises another $5.6M, denies plans to challenge Twitter — The landscape for Twitter applications may be changing, but that hasn't scared investors away from UberMedia, the owner of apps like UberSocial, Echofon, and Twidroyd. The Pasadena, Calif. company just announced that it has raised $5.6 million in new funding.

Discussion: VatorNews, alarm:clock, TechCrunch, SAI and AllTwitter, more at Mediagazer »

Sheldon Levine / Sysomos Blog:

How People Currently Share Pictures On Twitter — Yesterday Twitter revealed that they will be rolling out their very own way to share photos on the microblogging network. Twitter will now give users a way to upload their pictures straight to Twitter without having to use a third-party service.

Discussion: Ars Technica, App Advice, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and WebProNews

Edecio Martinez / CBS News:

PSN fully restored in US, Europe after hacker attack — (CBS/AP) TOKYO - Sony is fully restoring its PlayStation Network in the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia after hackers stole customer data and sent services offline in April. — The Tokyo-based company said in a statement that services …

Discussion: Globe and Mail, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Destructoid, Reuters, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, DailyTech, VG247, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, Geek.com, Redmond Pie and ITworld.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Governments Are Still Trying to Kill, Replace or Undo the Internet — For all the optimism — much of it well-placed — about the Internet and social tools like Twitter and Facebook helping to create revolutions in the Middle East, there is a corresponding tide of repression …

Discussion: portal.unesco.org and Index on Censorship

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