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May 22, 2012, 5:40 AM

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Felix Salmon:

Morgan Stanley's $2.4 billion Facebook short — Matt Levine had a very wonky post on Friday afternoon about the dynamics of the Facebook IPO in general and of the very misunderstood greenshoe option in particular. Now that we've all had a nice relaxing weekend, it's maybe worth revisiting that greenshoe …

More: DealBook and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @cdixon

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

The Other Challenge Of Facebook's Stock Swoon: Recruiting — Now that Facebook's public, and its stock has slipped below the IPO price, will it still be a hot place to work? — A stagnant stock price can dent employee morale—just ask Microsoft or Yahoo.

More: Guardian

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Insight: Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO — (Reuters) - In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some negative news to major clients: The bank's consumer Internet analyst, Scott Devitt, was reducing his revenue forecasts for the company.

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 …

More: Bloomberg, business.time.com, ZDNet, Webomatica, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, CNBC, blogs.hbr.org, Guardian, AllThingsD, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Reuters and TechCrunch. Tweets: @hblodget

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Facebook closes at $34, far below IPO price

More: Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Datamation.com and The Tech Trade

Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View:

Samsung Galaxy S III (i9300) pre-orders start at Amazon, yours for $799.99, shipping on May 29 — If you're in the US and are dying to get your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S III, Amazon has come to your rescue. However, you do have to shell out quite a large sum for the privilege …

More: IntoMobile, Phones Review, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, GadgeTell, Engadget and Softpedia News

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Enhancing Windows 8 for multiple monitors … Connecting multiple monitors to a PC is one of the easiest ways to enhance your Windows experience. Plug in a second monitor and you instantly double your working surface. I've had a multi-monitor setup for the past 10 years …

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo UK, Engadget, gHacks Technology News and Communications …. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Joe Moreno / Mea Vita:

Upside Down Apple Logo — Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn't dig deep enough. — About a dozen years ago we had some discussions at Apple about the placement of the logo on the back of Apple's laptops.

More: The Next Web, Wired, App Advice, TUAW and iClarified

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz — Github is nearing a close on a round of venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, according to sources familiar with the situation. — The popular social network for programmers and code host has famously bootstrapped itself up to this point.

Tweets: @johnsheehan and @pwittmann

Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:

Nasdaq Confronts Liability on Traders' Losses in Facebook IPO — Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. is facing demands from irate brokers and traders that want the exchange group to make up losses driven by its mishandling of Friday's initial public offering of Facebook Inc.

More: CBS News, VatorNews, Schumpeter, GigaOM, Rational Irrationality, ValueWalk, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Craig Pirrong / Seeking Alpha:

Would The Fed Take Facebook Shares As Collateral?

More: Business Insider

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Amazon Appstore's Test Drive try before you buy feature now available on Android phones — When Amazon's Appstore initially appeared on the Android scene last year, one of its most innovative features was a Test Drive virtual machine that let users try out apps for free from their desktop …

More: Gizmodo, Amazon Appstore Developer Blog, Droid Life, Softpedia News, DroidMatters.com, Android Phone Fans, Android Police and Droid Gamers

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

After Walking Away From Acquisition Talks With Facebook, Ark Opens Its People Search Engine — Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups...at least for the next three days. Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook …

More: GigaOM and CNET

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Machinima Gets $35M In Funding, Led By Google — After being first reported by AllThingsD, online video creator Machinima confirmed Monday that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Google, which also included existing investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital.

More: Variety, Tubefilter, paidContent, AllThingsD, Forbes and socalTECH.com. See also Mediagazer

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Incident Launches The gTar at Disrupt, An iPhone-Powered Electronic Teaching Guitar — The gTar by Incident is disruption defined. It takes the guitar, an instrument with a steep learning curve, and adds a bit of digital wizardry in the form of an embedded iPhone to make learning dramatically easier.

More: Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, CNET, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget and Business Insider. Tweets: @eldon

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google Voice Founder Tackles Conference Calls — Uberconference debuts today as a new interface for conference calls — you know, those terrifically annoying occurrences that people in business deal with on a daily basis. — What's notable about the product is it comes from Craig Walker …

More: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Supreme Court declines to hear $675,000 file-swapping case — Boston student Joel Tenenbaum may be in for a second federal trial. — Appeal denied — United States Supreme Court — The Supreme Court this morning declined (PDF) to hear the appeal of admitted file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum …

More: CNET, Wired, Computerworld, WebProNews, Associated Press and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Sony releases ‘Music Unlimited’ Spotify competitor as iOS app — Looking to rival competitors like Spotify and MOG, Sony today launched its Music Unlimited streaming service as an iOS app. We told you back in January that it was coming, but today the free app officially hits the App Store …

More: Phones Review, Redmond Pie, CNET, SlashGear, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, iPhone, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Electricpig.co.uk, The Verge and MacNN

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Are You a Human replaces annoying CAPTCHAs with games — Websites need to verify that a visitor is a real person and not an automated bot. But the CAPTCHA test that they came up with — where you have to type in the word that you see in a blurry distorted font image — is extremely annoying and often leads to multiple failures.

More: SlashGear, GamePolitics blogs and Kotaku

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 …

More: BerryReview.com, Business Wire, Ars Technica, TUAW, Engadget, PhoneArena and MobileBurn.com

Computerworld:

Panic announces Coda 2, Diet Coda for iPad — Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, it will unleash Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad. — Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, it will unleash Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad.

More: Macworld, TUAW, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and The Next Web

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology — BOSTON — The head of one of the country's biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network's ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto Hop.

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