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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
It's official: Facebook offers 50.6 million extra shares for IPO, confirms $34 - $38 price range — Facebook has just filed a seventh amendment to its S-1, which you can view here. — TechCrunch yesterday reported that FB was going to sell extra shares, and they were spot on.| CNBC: |
As Investors Fawn Over Facebook, Poll Finds User Distrust, Apathy — Facebook's initial public offering will be the largest and perhaps the most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. — Faced with great expectations, however, Facebook is staring down some unnerving obstacles …
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| Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Preparing Upgrade to iCloud — Apple Inc. is preparing an upgrade of its online service iCloud that includes new photo-sharing features, according to people familiar with the matter. — The new features, expected to be announced at Apple's world-wide developer conference beginning June 11 …
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Telegraph, USA Today, VentureBeat and Gotta Be Mobile
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Here's Yahoo's Official Parting With Thompson Over ResuMess — No Severance, But Make-Whole Millions — As I reported earlier today, former Yahoo Scott Thompson left the Silicon Valley Internet giant with no severance. — The reason for the agreement was that the company was claiming … | Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media company? — Now that Yahoo has managed to make its way through yet another CEO shuffle — its sixth in just five years — the former portal has to get back to the main task at hand: namely, figuring out what its future looks like.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Prepare Thinner Mac Laptops Sporting Intel Chips — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel Corp. (INTC), people with knowledge of the plans said. — The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Carbon, calls it the world's lightest 14-inch ultrabook (hands-on) — Lenovo unveiled a blitz of refreshed ThinkPad laptops today, each sporting a redesigned keyboard and Intel Ivy Bridge chips, but it had one surprise in store: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, Engadget, Maximum PC, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and ABCNEWS
| Nate Ralph / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces 2012 ThinkPad lineup, including Ivy Bridge and revamped keyboards — Lenovo has refreshed their entire ThinkPad lineup for 2012, bringing Intel's 3rd-generation Core processors to bear on their business-centric hardware. Lenovo's entire refreshed lineup packs Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs …
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Computerworld, ZDNet, Engadget, SlashGear, LAPTOP Magazine, AllThingsD, Geek.com and CNET
| David Carr / New York Times: |
Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television — This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn't counting on my house to lift ratings. — So far in the month of May, our household has watched exactly two minutes and one second of live television.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D'Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money — Q&A site Quora has raised $50 million at a $400 million valuation according to a report by the Wall Street Journal and the founders themselves have confirmed to me. We had reported that Quora was raising … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
| Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog: |
The best of Twitter in your inbox — Starting today, you can discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you're connected to on Twitter. — Stories feature a design similar … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed — New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin, bringing the total number of states involved so far to 31 (if you include DC and Puerto Rico).
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Fortune, Business Insider, CNET, AppleInsider, TeleRead, MacNN and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
AMD reveals Trinity specs, claims to beat Intel on price, multimedia, gaming — Itching for the details of AMD's latest Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)? Then get ready to scratch: Trinity has arrived and, as of today, it's ready to start powering the next generation of low-power ultra-portables … | Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters: |
Amazon aims to launch front-lit Kindle in July: source — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source who has seen the prototype told Reuters. — The world's largest Internet retailer … | Jake Smith / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases update to Leopard, includes Flashback removal tool — While Apple has released updates for both Lion and Snow Leopard to remove the Flashback malware that is making the rounds, the company had not released a fix for Leopard until today. Apple released a Flashback Removal Security Update …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Baidu's New Forked Android Phone: China's Search Giant Wants To Make Windows Phone, iOS Versions Too — Big mobile plans afoot for Baidu, the Google of China that leads in search and has launched a host of other services in the wake of that business. The company today unveiled the first smartphone …
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PC World, Baidu Beat, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and IntoMobile
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Columbia Pictures Wins ‘Social Network’ Lawsuit Over Zuckerberg Classmate — Almost everyone knows the story of the Winklevii. Not everyone has heard about Aaron Greenspan. Is it better to be portrayed as a loser in developing a social network than to be cut out of the story altogether?| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Head of Time Warner Cable Is Unfamiliar With Apple's AirPlay — AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple's iPads and iPhones, is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cable industry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broad variety of Internet content on a television.
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IntoMobile, BuzzFeed, Fortune, PhoneArena, Engadget, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, MacRumors and App Advice. Thanks:@mattlynley
| Miguel Bustillo / Wall Street Journal: |
Best Buy Founder to Step Down in Wake of Inquiry — Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze will step down as chairman next month after an internal probe found that he didn't alert other directors that his handpicked successor as chief executive, Brian Dunn, was allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
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| Julie Miller / Vanity Fair: |
Groupon Gets a Poorly Titled CBS Sitcom — In 2010, Facebook was the basis for a David Fincher film, and now another wunderkind-run Web site with an I.P.O. in the billions is being adapted for entertainment's sake. This time, the social-media muse is Groupon, and the project …
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Business Insider, The Verge and Hollywood Reporter
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Honestly.com Becomes A Talent Search Engine, Renames Itself TalentBin — Honestly.com, a startup that allowed professionals to submit anonymous reviews of their coworkers, has been pretty quiet for the past couple of years. Turns out that's because the company has been busy reinventing itself.
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VatorNews, AllThingsD, PandoDaily and WebProNews
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Sony VAIO S upgraded with Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs and Nvidia's Kepler GPUs — Sony has announced a refresh of its VAIO S Series laptops, along with a pair of new E Series models. The S Series will come with a choice of 13.3- and 15.5-inch displays; the 15.5-inch model has a 1080p IPS screen …
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