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May 4, 2012, 5:45 AM

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

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: Softpedia News, GigaOM, Simply Zesty, Wall Street Journal, bub.blicio.us, Marketing Land, 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

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

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.

More: memeburn and Betabeat. Tweets: @rakeshlobster

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO — Yahoo just released a statement that its board will “review” today's revelation that the bio of its CEO Scott Thompson contained an error related to his educational achievements and make “appropriate disclosure” about what happened.

More: CNET, Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Insider, DevBiz and The Next Web

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

The Disgrace Of Yahoo … Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has lied about receiving a computer science degree. Or at any rate he's never corrected his biographical information that includes that information, and it's nearly impossible to believe that he simply never noticed it.

More: Uncrunched, Business Insider, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Tweets: @rafat and @mg

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: TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, DealBook, eWeek, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @cdixon

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Does Not Deny He Has a CS Degree and Calls Himself an “Engineer” (Audio)

AnandTech:

Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast — Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring …

More: PhoneArena, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, Android and Me, CNET and 9to5Google

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.

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

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, eye tracking, available later this month

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

Dustin Curtis:

Facebook's numbers — I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S-1 filing (published on May 2nd) that I think are important as metrics …

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

More: Examiner, TPM IdeaLab and Gizmodo

DealBook:

Small Investors May Get to Own a Bit of Facebook

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

After Public Offering, Mark Zuckerberg Will Still Control More Than Half of Facebook

More: internetretailer.com, Venture Capital Dispatch and TechCrunch

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

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

More: PandoDaily, Digits, ZDNet and Los Angeles Times

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Releases IPO Prospectus and Roadshow Video Featuring Interviews With Zuckerberg

More: Neowin, CNET, VatorNews, Wired, AllThingsD and RyanSpoon.com

Tweets: @schatzwsj and @thatdrew

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.

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Windows 8 drops DVD playback, only available with paid Media Center upgrade — You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't have any kind of DVD playback …

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Media Center not part of ‘the future of entertainment’

More: Gizmodo, Bink.nu, gHacks Technology News, MSDN Blogs, The Next Web, Liliputing and Business Insider

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010 — Google Inc's Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a U.S. judge said in court.

More: Business Insider

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Oracle vs. Google jury possibly deadlocked?

More: Groklaw and ZDNet

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

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: IDC, The Verge, Good E-Reader, Techie Buzz, Gotta Be Mobile, Macworld Australia, TechPinions, Geek.com, VentureBeat, NEWS.com.au, Computerworld, Ars Technica, BGR and Android Phone Fans

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.

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL — Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …

More: Dustin Curtis

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: TechCrunch, GigaOM, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, SocialTimes, WebProNews, The Next Web and bub.blicio.us. See also Mediagazer

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: App Advice, BGR, Engadget, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and CNET

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