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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Well, Now That Everyone Has Sobered Up, Let's Figure Out What Facebook Is Actually Worth...  Thank goodness that's over.  —  The Facebook IPO could have been a major disaster for millions of individual investors.  —  If the stock had “popped” to a truly ludicrous level on IPO day …
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
On Day Two, Facebook Shares Open More Than 10 Percent Off  —  After opening at a share price of $36.53, shares of Facebook stock dipped by more than 10 percent below the company's initial public offering price of $38, trading as low as $33 at one point on Monday morning.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Motorola Mobility Says $12.5B Google Deal To Close Tuesday Or Wednesday.  Layoffs Coming?  —  Google has reached the final regulatory hurdle to its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, with China approving the transaction over the weekend, and today Motorola Mobility filed an 8-K form …
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer sends brochure to Cupertino neighbors inviting feedback on new 'Campus 2′  —  Apple is currently involved in an outreach program to new neighbors in its planned “Campus 2″ area.  A brochure was mailed this week to residents surrounding the new campus …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the Web's most used browser  —  Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web's most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET:
Leap Motion: 3D hands-free motion control, unbound  —  The startup's technology puts sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday's news.
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Michael Moritz to Step Back at Sequoia Capital  —  Michael Moritz, the prominent Silicon Valley investor who has backed companies such as Google (GOOG), LinkedIn, PayPal, and Yahoo (YHOO), is stepping back from some of his responsibilities at his firm, Sequoia Capital, and has disclosed …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET:
Cable companies expand free Wi-Fi  —  BOSTON—The nation's biggest cable operators are banding together to offer free Wi-Fi access to their broadband customers in more than 50,000 hotspots around the country.  —  On Monday, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Google giving Cornell University 22k square feet of free office space at its NYC HQ for 5 years  —  Google's Larry Page today announced that the company would be giving over the use of 22,000 square feet of its New York City headquarters to CornellNYC Tech, while the university builds its new campus on Roosevelt Island.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Carriers Willing to Live With High iPhone Subsidies for Now  —  Much as U.S. wireless carriers would like to reduce the high subsidies they pay on Apple's iPhone, there's little chance that they'll do so anytime soon.  —  Why?  —  They're far too worried about what would happen to their customer-retention rates if they did so.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU offers Google last chance in antitrust case  —  (Reuters) - The European Union's antitrust chief on Monday ratcheted up the pressure on Google, giving it a matter of weeks to settle an investigation into allegations of anti-competitive behavior and avoid formal charges and a possible fine.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
ITC once again sides with Apple, RIM in Kodak patent spat  —  The U.S. International Trade Commission today once again said Apple and Research In Motion are not infringing on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.  —  ITC administrative law judge Thomas Pender today posted his initial determination …
Robert McMillan / Wired:
How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads  —  In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer.  Most days, when the weather's good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his company's offices in the west end of the Canadian capital.
More: CNET
David Carr / New York Times:
The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform  —  It sounds like the setup for a very old, stale joke.  Three guys walked into a bar in Brooklyn to complain about the state of journalism ... except by the time these guys were done chatting and plotting, they had come up with an actual business.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Samsung begins blocking unofficial S-Voice requests ahead of Galaxy S III launch  —  After features underpinning its soon-to-be-released Galaxy S III smartphone leaked, Samsung is reported to have begun blocking unofficial requests generated by its S-Voice service from unsupported devices.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Google Missed The Boat On Buying Twitter.  “Hasn't Been Interested Since They Committed To Google+” -Fred Wilson  —  Michael Arrington says Dick Costolo gave Google the chance to buy Twitter, but the search giant passed.  Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures founder and former Twitter board member …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Google pays $10M for TeraHop patents: Sale to help investors in fraud case recoup cash  —  Big technology companies are searching everywhere for patents, looking to protect themselves from future litigation.  Now, Google has emerged as the buyer of a patent portfolio in a complex fraud case …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
TiVo Stream transcoder and IP-based set-top box detailed  —  We already knew that TiVo was working on a transcoder and IP-based set-top box, and today the company has unveiled the final retail versions for both.  The set-top box works with your TiVo Premiere Q, and lets you watch both live …

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