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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 read here. TechCrunch yesterday reported that FB was going to sell extra shares (update: or at least that underwriters …
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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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected — Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear. To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there's a lot of secret technology concealed within those sleek lines …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can... Quora co-founders Charlie Cheever & Adam D'Angelo @ Crunchies 2010 — Quora, a Palo Alto-based knowledge (read: Q&A) community has raised a whopping $50 million in Series B funding from co-founder Adam D'Angelo along … | 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.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright? — Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted - and that raises questions across the computer industry. Photo: Oracle — What does an API look like? — Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products.| 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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| Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat: |
NYU Senior's Cellphone Startup Faces ‘Malicious Network Attack’ on Launch Day — We were immediately intrigued by AllThingsD's story about enterprising NYU senior John Mardini's new startup, Voyager Mobile. For one, Mr. Mardini wants to open cheap cellphone services to the public via …
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| 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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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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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Supreme Court denies Psystar's appeal in Mac clone case — One of Psystar's early “OpenMac” models. — (Credit: Psystar) — The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Psystar's request to review a lower court decision that keeps it from selling computers that run Apple's OS X but that are not made by Apple.
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Fox and NBC: Dish's commercial-skipping DVR ‘a strange thing to do’ at best, ‘an insult’ at worst — Customers may be impressed by Dish Network's commercial-skipping Auto Hop feature on the Hopper DVR, but at least two networks aren't so happy. In a press call, Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice … | 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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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
LG shows off the best Google TV yet, with motion controls, dual-core CPU, 3D — When we first learned LG would be launching its crop of Google TV sets this month, I asked “will anyone care?” — now after seeing LG's G2 series in action, I'm surprised to report that plenty of consumers just may.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech — A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format.
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Please Don't Learn to Code — The whole “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. — A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs … Sponsor Posts
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