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May 4, 2012, 1:10 PM

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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 will make “appropriate disclosure” about what happened.

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: VentureBeat, CNET, Washington Post, Pulse2 Technology …, Beyond Search, memeburn, Betabeat, Coyote Tracks and ReadWriteWeb. Tweets: @rakeshlobster

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Does Not Deny He Has a CS Degree and Calls Himself an “Engineer” (Audio) — On March 25, 2009, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson — when he was then president of PayPal — appeared on the TechNation radio show to talk about the revival of the eBay payments unit.

More: Business Insider, CNET, TechWeekEurope UK, Marketing Pilgrim and VentureBeat

Tweets: @levie and @arrington

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @om

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

The Disgrace Of Yahoo … Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has lied …

More: Marketing Land, PR Newswire, Tech and China, paidContent, Uncrunched, Dice Blog Network, CNET, AllThingsD, Business Insider, WebProNews and TechCrunch

Tweets: @rafat and @mg

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 …

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @mathewi

Bloomberg:

Facebook at 99 Times Profit Exceeds 99% of S&P 500 Index — Facebook Valuation Could Rise Higher on Road Show — Facebook Inc. (FB) is betting its growth prospects will persuade investors to pay 99 times earnings for its initial public offering, a higher multiple than 99 percent of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

More: WebProNews and Simply Zesty

DealBook:

Small Investors May Get to Own a Bit of Facebook

More: Betabeat, New York Times and Techland

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life — When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.

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, AllThingsD, Master of 500 Hats, SlashGear, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and TechCrunch

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

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

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Full Samsung Galaxy S III launch event now online

More: GigaOM, The Next Web, Fast Company and PhoneArena

Ben Kersey / SlashGear:

Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive

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

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround — Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila …

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Nokia Weighs In On Investors' Class-Action Lawsuit: It Has “No Merit”

More: IntoMobile, BGR, Nokia, Reuters and GigaOM

Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:

How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit — Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution. — “Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto,” OpenStreetMap's official …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, MacRumors, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, iPodNN, TUAW, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and Spatially Adjusted. Tweets: @openstreetmap

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: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, ITProPortal, OStatic blogs, Appolicious Advisor, The Register, T3 News, Pocket-lint and Business Insider

Nick Farrell / TechEye:

John McAfee arrested in Belize — John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out. — McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a patrol ship. — Now he says that he has become a target …

More: The Verge, Inquirer, Network World, Gizmodo, Channel5Belize.com, Softpedia News, Mashable!, WebProNews and Slashdot

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 …

More: Liliputing, CNET, The Register, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Pocketables and Engadget

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

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

More: CNET, Computerworld, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, MSDN Blogs, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Business Insider

Diego Basch / Diego Basch's Blog:

A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi — On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stock went down by 99.9%. In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M.

More: Search Engine Land

David Kravets / Wired:

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement — Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, TorrentFreak, Dvorak News Blog and Techdirt

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: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Dustin Curtis, CNET and paidContent

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

In a Samsung Galaxy far, far away ... will Android still rule? — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google's Android operating system. — And, for some, that's the problem. — Samsung's meteoric rise …

More: dailywireless.org

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Heads up, Intel: TSMC cranks up ARM chip to 3GHz — ARM Cortex A9. — (Credit: ARM) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has ripped a page right out of the Intel playbook. — TSMC announced today that a chip rolling off its advanced 28-nanometer manufacturing process …

More: The Verge, TechEye, TSMC, PhoneArena, Liliputing and SlashGear

David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:

Verizon reps push 4G Android over iPhone — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Want to buy an iPhone? Verizon would really, really like you to consider an alternative. — Anecdotal evidence is stacking up on chat forums and other outlets from people who say that Verizon Wireless' sales representatives …

More: TechCrunch, PhoneArena, App Advice, PC Magazine, Daring Fireball and The Consumerist

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