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Facebook, Zuckerberg, banks sued over IPO — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.
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EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO — And now for some more bombshell news about the Facebook IPO... Earlier, we reported that the analysts at Facebook's IPO underwriters had cut their estimates for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow, a highly unusual and negative event.| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Fumbled Facebook Offering — Less than three days before Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman decided to boost the number of shares the company would offer investors by 25%, said people familiar with the planning.| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
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Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core — Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips — Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks. (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy) — If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million — Breaking news: TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has made a big investment in social media today. The company has bought Vitrue, the social media marketing company that is a close partner to Facebook.
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Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.999-inch display, 1136 x 640 resolution in testing (updated: more decimals) — Apple is testing multiple next-generation iPhones, and we have independently heard that at least one of these devices sports a brand new display.
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Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections — Google plans today to begin warning Internet users if their computers show telltale signs of being infected with the DNSChanger Trojan. The company estimates that more than 500,000 systems remain infected with the malware … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu — Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don't believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations … | Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
ITC Judge: Xbox Should Be Banned From U.S. Over Motorola Patent Violation — An ITC judge has called for a sales and import ban on Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console. Photo: Chris Kohler/Wired — A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft's Xbox videogame consoles …
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Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades — Within a few days, five of the largest UK Internet providers will all have to censor The Pirate Bay. Virgin and Orange have already implemented the block and the rest must follow before the end of May.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Bing's Visual Search Is Gone (Has Been For A While, Actually) — The fact that almost no one noticed might be one reason why Bing has dropped its Visual Search feature ... something that apparently happened months ago. — To be clear, this isn't traditional image search that we're talking about …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Airtime Acquires Former Hulu CTO's Startup Erly, Raises $25M Series B Funding — We've learned that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition — before truly exiting stealth mode. The target?
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Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share in Q1'12 on Strong iPad Shipment Growth — HP, Acer, Lenovo, and Dell Round Out Top Five Spots; China Market Posts Sequential Growth Santa Clara, Calif., May 22, 2012—Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1'12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth …
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| Mazhar Mohammed / The Windows Blog: |
Starting today you need Windows Phone 7.5 to use Marketplace — Today's the day. This afternoon we started requiring Windows Phone 7.5 on phones to download, buy, update, or review apps in Marketplace. As I've written previously, this change applies to both the phone and web Marketplace storefronts.
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| Heather Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Google+ wants to be your new Flickr — Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As a social network competing with Facebook it's a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Now photo sharing is poised to be the service's next breakout hit … | New York Times: |
Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation — Secrets spilled across the computer screen. — After months of negotiation, Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been collecting from potentially millions of his fellow citizens.
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Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data — Remember address book-gate? Locationgate? I-don't-know-what-my-apps-are-doing- on-my-phone-gate? (Oh, that last one might not be a real thing.) Regardless, we're living in age …
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| Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times: |
Plan for self-driving cars passes California Senate hurdle — Legislation allowing for the use of self-driving cars such as this Toyota Prius modified by Google passed the California State Senate (Getty Images / May 21, 2012) — A bill that allows for the use of self-driving cars …
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Facebook settles lawsuit over “Sponsored Stories” — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc. has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that alleged the site's “Sponsored Stories” feature publicized users' “likes” without compensation or the ability to opt out, according to a court document filed on Tuesday.
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