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Form S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Facebook, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement. If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed …
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Zuckerberg Is the Billion-Share Man: Who Owns What, Who Makes What in the Facebook IPO — In what is probably the most anticipated document ever received by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook has filed to take its company public in a $5 billion initial public offering later this year.| Tim Carmody / Epicenter: |
Facebook's ‘Letter from Zuckerberg’: The Annotated Version — Facebook's Form S-1 Registration Statement with the Security and Exchange Commission includes details on the IPO itself and the company's financial condition as well as a letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to current and potential shareholders - aka the whole world.
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From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches — David Choe was paid in Facebook stock for paintings at the company's first headquarters. His payout may be $200 million when it goes public. Some investors may make billions of dollars. — SAN FRANCISCO — The graffiti artist …
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Zuckerberg Controlling 57% of Facebook Seen as Risk to Investors — Mark Zuckerberg's majority control puts too much power in the hands of one person and may deter potential IPO investors, corporate-governance experts say — (Bloomberg) — Mark Zuckerberg's majority control over Facebook Inc. puts …
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Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News — The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr. — Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site's editor in chief.| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
“Think Profit.” — When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in 1998, he did something unusual. For the first time in any presentation he had ever given, he ended with a slide reading, “Oh, and one more thing...” This phrase would of course enter the Apple lexicon in the subsequent years.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New Everpix iPhone App Automatically Uploads Your Photos To The Cloud — Photo organization service (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection from your phone … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
New Sony Chief Executive Reveals Fast-Forward Plans — TOKYO—The next chief executive of Sony Corp. promises to forge a new path for a company that once dominated the business of filling free time with the creation of wildly popular consumer products, from Trinitron TVs to Walkman music players and PlayStation game consoles.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood — One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but impossible for the public to do so except through leaks.
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Silicon London is first choice of base for Google, Facebook and other tech giants — The capital's young workforce and wealth of start-ups are behind last year's doubling in demand for office space for IT firms — Tech clusters are springing up all over London as international heavyweights … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google Docs for Android gets offline support and a tablet refresh — The Google Docs team has announced a few helpful updates for the Android version of its Google Docs app. Most notably, the capability to view documents offline and sync them later has been introduced.| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free — Google faces a $660,000 fine after a French court ruling that the company is abusing its dominant position in mapping by making Google Maps free. — According to The Economic Times, the French commercial court …
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White House: No comment on call to investigate MPAA for SOPA bribery — The U.S. White House has declined to respond to a petition calling for authorities to investigate the head of the Motion Picture Association of America for bribery related to comments he made following successful online protests …
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Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk — Off of Ramona Street in Palo Alto, down a narrow alcove lined with potted plants and flowers, is a small office hidden by hanging leaves that passersby might confuse for a misplaced country cottage.
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Nokia chairman warns of slow progress for ‘a significant part’ of 2012 — Nokia's shift to Windows Phone kicked off with a quarter in which the company lost $1.2 billion and saw smartphone sales decline by 31 percent, and outgoing chairman Jorma Ollila is warning that it's going to take a while to see much improvement.
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Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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