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May 3, 2012, 11:00 PM

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture …

More: Master of 500 Hats, SlideShare Blog, AllThingsD and VentureBeat

Tweets: @jeffweiner, @hunterwalk, @anildash and @kristacanfield

Deep Nishar / Linkedin Blog:

SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals — Over the past few years, SlideShare and LinkedIn have been working closely together to help professionals be more effective and productive through the content they create and share on LinkedIn. I've personally been a huge fan of SlideShare …

More: Marketing Land, GigaOM, bub.blicio.us, Paints The Future and WebProNews

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q1 Revenue Up 101 Percent To $188.5M; Net Income Up 140 Percent — Professional social network LinkedIn has just released Q1 earnings. Revenue for the first quarter was $188.5 million, an increase of 101% compared to $93.9 million in the first quarter of 2011.

More: CNET, Yahoo! Finance, Betabeat, The Tech Trade and Under the Radar

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video) — You remember that Galaxy S II? A phone so good they launched it, well, a whole load of times. But after seeing phablet cousins and LTE variants, the true handset sequel is finally here.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, eye tracking, available later this month — Capping months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has announced its Galaxy S III smartphone at an event in London today. Major specs include a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution …

More: Associated Press, BGR, The Next Web, Engadget, Engadget, Know Your Cell, Reuters, Android and Me, The Huffington Post, Pocketables, Ars Technica, Android and Me, iMore, Sammy Hub, Bits and GadgeTell. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Ben Kersey / SlashGear:

Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive — Samsung has fully unveiled the Galaxy S III here at the London event today, and one of the inclusions to its modified version of Ice Cream Sandwich is an exclusive version of Flipboard. It marks the first time that Flipboard will be making …

More: Techland, AllThingsD, CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, Phones Review, The Verge, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable!, PhoneArena, Social Media and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mrinaldesai

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Samsung and Dropbox offer Galaxy S III users up to 50GB of extra storage

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range — Facebook Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, in a landmark deal that would raise as much as $13.6 billion for the social network and insiders. The preliminary price range would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Sell ~$1 Billion Worth Of Facebook Shares At IPO — The latest iteration of Facebook's S-1 filing is out. — The hot details: the company is selling 337.4 million shares at a price range of $28-$35. — And part of the share sale is insiders selling, and that includes CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

More: TPM IdeaLab and Gizmodo

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

After Public Offering, Mark Zuckerberg Will Still Control More Than Half of Facebook — Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will retain control of the social network, even after completing its impending initial public offering. — According to documents filed with the Securities …

More: Digits, Venture Capital Dispatch, internetretailer.com and TechCrunch

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Releases IPO Prospectus and Roadshow Video Featuring Interviews With Zuckerberg

More: Dustin Curtis, Gizmodo, Wired, Digits, Digital Media Wire, AllThingsD and RyanSpoon.com

Tweets: @schatzwsj and @thatdrew

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Facebook S-1 Confirms IPO Share Price Of $28-$35, Raising $5B To $6.3B, Hardware Patent Lawsuit Threats

More: ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, VatorNews and PandoDaily

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Response on CEO's Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error” — A Yahoo spokesperson just confirmed as accurate allegations from an activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point that its CEO Scott Thompson did not have a computer science degree from Stone Hill College as claimed on his bio and also in regulatory filings.

More: Uncrunched, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, The Verge, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Pulse2 Technology …

Tweets: @mg and @cdixon

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal

Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:

The New iPhone: Size, Screen + New Connector (Plus iPod touch) — Whether you call it the “iPhone 5,” the “iPhone 6,” or the “iPhone 4G”—well, maybe not the last one thanks to international regulators—the new iPhone is coming this fall, and we have some details to share.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle — Amazon likes to tout the Kindle Fire as “the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product” it peddles (without ever disclosing actual sales numbers). But evidently that doesn't mean quite as much as you'd think.

More: The Verge, NEWS.com.au, The Verge, Macworld Australia, PhoneArena, Geek.com, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Telecompetitor, PC Magazine, BGR and Android Phone Fans

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft to Use Dolby Sound Tech in Windows 8 — Dolby Laboratories said on Thursday that Microsoft plans to incorporate its sound technology into Windows 8. — Under the deal, computer makers will be required to license directly from Dolby and pay a royalty to use the technologies.

More: NEWS.com.au, The Verge, Business Wire, Digits, CNET, eWeek and SlashGear

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million — Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV. And maybe it will, one day. In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine. — Here's a proof point: Discovery Communications, parent of The Discovery Channel, has purchased Revision3 …

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, The Next Web, SocialTimes, bub.blicio.us, WebProNews and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook's Open Graph — A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley's top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the next hot startup.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) — Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits have been dragging on for more than two years in the US, involving more than a quarter million alleged downloaders. — The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an IP-address as evidence.

More: CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, Fight Copyright Trolls, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, Betabeat and Boing Boing

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Reveals Wildly Intelligent Multi-Tiered Haptics System — I love days like this when we get to see a new and exciting invention from the Crazy Ones in Cupertino. In March there was a rumor that the new iPad would include new advanced haptics that didn't' pan out.

More: BGR, Engadget, MacDailyNews, CNET and iDownloadBlog.com

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Zynga's New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’ — NHL Among First to Buy Paid Terms in Hugely Popular Social game — Zynga's latest big-ticket acquisition has already figured out how to draw in users, but now Draw Something has an ad model that brings brands into the picture.

More: PC Magazine, Business Insider, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Simply Zesty, memeburn, The Next Web, Betabeat, Tecca, Daring Fireball and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@kunur

Om Malik / GigaOM:

The Midas List? Yeah, sure, & I'm Brad Pitt — Forbes came out with its annual Midas List, which ranks venture capitalists. Lists on the web are essentially page view machines, but at Forbes, they are a religion. I worked for Forbes.com and know how much work used to go into putting together …

More: Forbes, GeekWire and VentureBeat

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Oracle vs. Google jury possibly deadlocked? — Developing... THERE ARE 6 COMMENTS. LOAD EM UP!

More: Groklaw and CNET

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Media Center not part of ‘the future of entertainment’ — Summary: A new blog post from Microsoft fills in details about how Media Center will fit in Windows 8, as an extra-cost option. And it's pretty clear that Media Center is not part of “the future of entertainment in Windows.”

More: Engadget, MSDN Blogs, Business Insider, Pocketables and The Next Web

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Klout Releases New, Speedier API; Now Serves 1 Billion API Calls Per Day — Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, has just released a new version of its API and released a number of new stats about its API usage.

More: The Official Klout Blog, The Next Web and Mashable!

Billy Steele / Engadget:

Boingo to offer its WiFi services to New York City subway stations — Your dreams of WiFi connectivity from within NYC's subway stations will soon be a reality. Boingo has announced an agreement with Transit Wireless to offer wireless internet service inside the Big Apple's subway stations.

More: VentureBeat, SlashGear and NYConvergence.com

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Phil Libin and the Refusal to Pivot: Evernote Now Valued at $1 Billion — Today, 30-million-user strong Evernote announced it had received $70 million in Series D funding from Meritech Capital, CBC Capital, T. Rowe Price Associates, Harbor Pacific Capital and Allen & Company at a valuation of Dr. Evil proportions: One billion dollars.

More: CNET, Market Wire, News on ZDNet Australia, TechCrunch and Evernote Blogcast

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Online video biz Brightcove earns $19.9M in Q1, sees bright future ahead — Online video platform company Brightcove reported $19.9 million in revenue in its first quarter as a public company, the company announced today. — “We are pleased to announce strong financial results …

More: MarketWatch, paidContent and TechCrunch

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